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…
Where does the difference in pain perception between men and women come from?
Why are men hypersensitive to pain experienced a second time? Why are women much more…
A better understanding of pain in children
Nociplastic pain is pain experienced despite the absence of evidence of tissue or nervous system…
Anaïs Lacasse receives an institutional research chair
Three new Canada Institutional Chairs have been awarded to the Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue…
Arkady Khoutorsky awarded by the Canadian Association for Neuroscience
Dr. Arkady Khoutorsky, Associate Professor in the Department of Anesthesia and Faculty of Dental Medicine…
Chronic Pain in Veterans Podcast
The Most Painful Podcast aims to explore the impact of chronic pain on veterans and…
Virtual reality, hypnosis and pain
Virtual reality and hypnosis have already been used independently to support people living with pain….
Junie Carrière supported by the FRQSC for her work on return to work
Work-related musculoskeletal disorders have a strong impact on work disability in Quebec. Workers’ expectations regarding…
The immune response in fibromyalgia
Goal Pr Krock and collaborators previously found IgG antibodies from fibromyalgia patients induce pain-like behavior…
FRQS Research Scholars 2023
Congratulations to our members for their success in the FRQS scholarship competition ! – Jacques…
A FRQNT grant for Suzy Ngomo’s team
The Fonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et technologies (FRQNT) and Axelys have recently…
Pain and medication
An Australian scientific study examined the many studies published since 1964 on the efficacy and…
Virtual reality against pain and anxiety
Research by Sylvie Le May, a professor in the Faculty of Nursing at the University…
Pain and weather
We have all heard or felt that the weather (humidity, cold) increases the sensation of…
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…
Science at the service of the consumer
Dr. Eric Troncy, professor at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the Université de Montréal,…
Pediatric pain
Pain in children has historically been under-recognized and under-treated, and although progress has been made…
What is pain?
In this podcast, Jeffrey Mogil presents the mechanisms of chronic pain in a very accessible…
Pain intensity in women
Evaluating the intensity of pain in a person is difficult and open to interpretation. Through…
