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Mission for European Pain School
Chronic Pain has recently been recognized a disease entity which may become independent of an initial somatic cause and often shows progressive chronicity, which in some languages has been termed "chronification". Chronic pain causes an enormous amount of suffering and disability, resulting in direct medical and indirect social costs in European countries that amount to at least 500 Million € per 1 Million of population annually. Basic and clinical research have resulted in the scientific understanding of progressive pain chronicity. The mechanisms involve long term nervous system plasticity that results in sensitization of the pain system under repeated or prolonged pain. A number of somatic, psychosocial and genetic risk factors have been identified which facilitate chronicity, e.g. in low back pain, neuropathies, fibromyalgia and headaches. The European Pain School will provide a comprehensive and interdisciplinary training to younger scientists to improve and disseminate the understanding, prevention and treatment of chronic pain in European Health systems.
Information on participating / attending:
Anna Maria Aloisi MD, PhD
Pain and Stress Neurophysiology Lab.,
Dept. of Physiology, University of Siena,
Via Aldo Moro, 2;53100 Siena Italy
Tel: +39 0577234103
Fax: + 39 0577234037
Mobile +39 3473579228;
Date:
06/17/2007 - 06/24/2007
Event venue:
Certosa di Pontignano
Loc. Pontignano
53010 Vagliagli
Siena - Italia
53010 Vagliagli
Italy
Target group:
Scientists and scholars
Email address:
Relevance:
international
Subject areas:
Medicine, Nutrition / healthcare / nursing
Types of events:
Entry:
03/20/2007
Sender/author:
Meike Drießen
Department:
Pressestelle
Event is free:
no
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event19875
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