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…
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 →
Pain after breast cancer: which strategies can help?
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Managing pain after a brain or spinal cord injury
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Stress and Low Back Pain
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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…
Importance of chronic pain training for occupational health and safety professionals
The purpose of this fact sheet is to describe the knowledge and attitudes of future…
Living with chronic pain in times of pandemic
This briefing note presents the results of a pan-Canadian survey on the impact of the…
The immune response in fibromyalgia
Goal Pr Krock and collaborators previously found IgG antibodies from fibromyalgia patients induce pain-like behavior…
The role of inflammation in nerve injury-associated chronic pain
Goal Chronic pain patients often have a low-level and long-term systemic inflammation. Dr Zhang research…
Smartphone apps for menstrual pain and symptom management
Goal The goal of this study was to take a closer look at the overall…
Age and gender influence the amount of help received to relieve pain
Goal It is important to better understand how different biases affect the caregiver-patient relationship in…
Shoulder pain management through education and therapeutic exercises
Goal The objective of this randomized controlled trial was to compare three different ways of…
A glance at the diagnosis of headaches
Goal To determine whether or not the headache originates from the cervical spine, there is…
Treatments selectively targeting the neurotensin receptor subtype 2 (NTS2), a promising avenue for pain...
Goal Scientists have been interested in neurotensin for the past 50 years as an alternative…
Pain treatment at the cellular level, let’s take a look through the lens!
Goal Ortho-Vanillin (o-Vanillin) is a natural compound that we can find in essential oils of…
Endogenous inflammatory mediators contributing to nervous tissue loss
Goal Steve Lacroix’s research team found that endogenous inflammatory mediators called interleukin (IL)-1α is released…
Omics – innovative approaches to study pain
Goal The -omics approaches can be performed in human patients with pain which represent an…
Efficacy of psychological interventions to prevent chronic pain
Goal Researchers therefore investigated the efficacy of psychological interventions to prevent chronic pain. The research…
Diverse pain modulatory profiles in a large sample of children, adolescents, and young adults...
Goal Studies have shown that chronic pain in children and adolescents may be associated with…
Combination of music intervention and hypnosis to improve well-being
Goal Music and hypnosis present fewer risks of side effects and can be self-administered at…
Impact of chronic pain on lifespan and pain behaviour
Goal Chronic pain can be a major cause of stress and it has been previously…
Exploring the variations in pain intensity
Goal People recall a past experience mostly based on how they felt at the peak…
Patient partners in research
The Chronic Pain Network (CPN) is made up of people living with chronic pain. Their…
The decision value of future pain
Goal The main objective of this study was to examine how the brain represents future…
Measurement grimace scales for pain assessment in nonhuman mammals
Goal Grimace scales need to undergo several steps of validation to ensure they measure what…
