Events →
Science Café on pain
On June 10, 2026, the Quebec Pain Research Network, in collaboration with Fibromyalgie Laval and…
Special webinar: Chronic Pain Centre of Excellence for Canadian Veterans
Dr. Major (retired) Luc J. Hébert, fellow PT, PhD, CD will present the collaboration between…
Annual Scientific Meeting of the canadian Pain Society
The QPRN team was in Quebec City to discuss pain research with the scientific community….
Fundings →
Special webinar: Chronic Pain Centre of Excellence for Canadian Veterans
Dr. Major (retired) Luc J. Hébert, fellow PT, PhD, CD will present the collaboration between…
Pilot Projects 2026
This program serves to initiate and promote an innovative and not funded aspect of the…
FRQS Research Scholars 2025
Congratulations to our members on their success in the FRQ scholarships competition !
News of our researchers →
News from our members
Discover the achievements, projects, partnerships, and advances in pain research of our members.. April 2025…
Quebec Expertise in Chiropractic Honoured at the WFC World Congress
From May 7 to 10, 2025, over 30 representatives from Quebec took part in the…
A Canada-wide project to better understand chronic pain among veterans
In this episode, Anaïs Lacasse—full professor and holder of the Institutional Research Chair in Chronic…
News of our students →
‘I show off’ meeting travel award 2026-2027
The meeting travel award program allows trainees to attend conferences related to pain or related…
PAINtalks 2025
The 10th edition of the PAINtalks organized by the Quebec Network of Junior Pain Investigators…
Let’s Talk About Pain podcast season 2
The Quebec Pain Research Netowrk (QPRN), in collaboration with the Quebec Network of Junior Pain…
Popularized publications →
Stress and Low Back Pain
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Low back pain: benchmarks for Quebec
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Scientific advances →
The Future of Persistent Pain Management: What Are the Priorities for Quebec?
With the support of the Ministry of Health and Social Services, a consultative session with…
Quebec Consortium on Veteran’s Health
Objective The objectives of this multidisciplinary consortium are to study the navigation of veterans living…
Mark Ware talks about the challenge of pain at the Hirsh-Rosenfeld conference
Each year, the Department of Family Medicine of McGill University, in collaboration with the St….
Éric Troncy, Chair of the IASP’s Non-Human Special Interest Group
The Non-Human Pain Special Interest Group aims to encourage basic and clinical research on the…
Sylvie LeMay receives effervescence’s Social Innovation Award
Sylvie LeMay, Professor at the Université de Montréal and member of the QPRN, was awarded…
Canadian Pain Society Awards 2024
Congratulations to our members who were recognized by the Canadian Pain Society at the Annual…
The eagerly awaited decline in the opioid crisis
Opioids are medications that help relieve pain, but can be addictive if used on the…
FRQS Research Scholars 2024
Congratulations to our members on their success in the FRQSC and FRQS scholarships competition !…
Michel Perreault obtains funding from the Substance Use and Addictions Program
The project by Michel Perreault and his team aims to improve the response to the…
The advantage of artificial intelligence in repairing damaged brain functions
Neurostimulation alters the functioning of neurons by sending mild electrical signals directly into the brain…
Prescription and withdrawal of opiods
Despite guidelines established in 2017, opioid prescribing remains a sensitive issue to this day. While…
Are flat feet really a problem?
Gabriel Moisan is a researcher in podiatric medicine at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières…
Doggone Foundation Chair of Excellence in Pain for Artur Kania
Artur Kania is the Director of the Neural Circuit Development Research Unit at the Institut…
Catherine Mercier awarded Canada Research Chair
Catherine Mercier is a full professor in the Department of Rehabilitation in the Faculty of…
Female sexual pain: progress to come
Mélanie Morin is a physiotherapist, professor at the Université de Sherbrooke and member of the…
Marc-André Blanchette and Isabelle Pagé funded by the Quebec Chiropractic Foundation
Marc-André Blanchette and Isabelle Pagé are both chiropractors, professors at the Université du Québec à…
Yannick Tousignant Laflamme funded by the International MDT Research Foundation
Yannick Tousignant-Laflamme is a physiotherapist, Professor at the Université de Sherbrooke and member of the…
Yannick Tousignant-Laflamme, guest on the Physiotutors podcast
Yannick Tousignant-Laflamme is a physiotherapist, Professor at the Université de Sherbrooke and member of the…
Tim Wideman in top 10 of Arthritis Society-funded research breakthroughs
Tim Wideman is a physiotherapist, Professor at McGill University and member of the QPRN. His…
Self-management of pain through self-hypnosis
David Ogez is a professor in the Department of Anaesthesiology and Pain Medicine at the…
Fibromyalgia, Recommendations and actual practice
Anaïs Lacasse, a researcher at the Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue and co-director of the…
