European Pain Management

Edited by Christopher Eccleston, Professor of Medical Psychology, and Director, Centre for Pain Research, The University of Bath, UK, Christopher Wells, Past President, European Pain Federation EFIC, Belgium, and Bart Morlion, President, European Pain Federation EFIC; and Professor and Director, Leuven Centre for Algology and Pain Management, University of Leuven, Belgium

Professor Christopher Eccleston directs the centre for pain research at the University of Bath, which is home to pain and rehabilitation scientists who are active in the fields of evidence-based pain, e-health, therapy innovation, adolescent and family pain, and individual differences in pain. He is particularly interested in the psychology of all physical sensations, and in promoting modern medical psychology.

Dr Chris Wells is President of the European Pain Federation, EFIC. He has initiated a multidisciplinary core curriculum in Europe, leading to a Diploma in Pain Medicine (EDPM) for all medical doctors. He has been Secretary of the British Pain Society and was made an Honorary Member of the Society in 2007. He co-founded NeuPSIG, a Special Interest Group of IASP©. He is an Honorary Members of this group and also IASP itself. He is one of 3 Founder Examiners for the World Institute of Pain 's Fellowship of Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP) examination. He was a member of the recent (2016) NICE Guideline Development Group on low back pain and sciatica. He now lives in Portugal, running a blueberry farm.

Bart Morlion directs the multidisciplinary pain centre at the University Hospitals Leuven and teaches pain management and pharmacology at the University of Leuven. He is program director for the interuniversity postgraduate certification in algology-pain medicine in Belgium. He will take office as president of the European Pain Federation in September 2017. His interests go to the organization of multimodal pain management and the pharmacotherapy of pain.

Emmanouil P. Anastassiou, Head Director of Anaesthesia Department and Pain Clinic, Thriassio General Hospital of Elefsina, Greece

Mihails Arons, Senior Consultant, P. Stradins University Hospital Pain Clinic, Head of the Medical Center D.A.P. Pain clinic, President of Latvian Association for the Study of Pain, Latvia

Nadine Attal, Head of the Pain Center, Ambroise Paré Hospital and member of the INSERM U 987 Research Team Centre d'Evaluation et de Traitement de la Douleur Hôpital Ambroise Paré, Boulogne-Billancourt, France

Daniele Battelli, Consultant, Anesthesia, Intensive Care and Pain Unit, San Marino State Hospital, San Marino Republic

Adrian Belîi, Chair of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care,Valeriu Ghereg, Nicolae Testemitanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova

Anna Bjarnegård, President Swedish Pain Society; and Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, Department of Health and Rehabilitation/Physiotherapy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Petter Borchgrevink, Director, Multidisciplinary Pain Center and National Center for Competence in Complex Symptom Disorders, St. Olav's Hospital, Trondheim, Norway

Didier Bouhassira, Past President of the French Pain Society; and Head of Pathophysiology and Clinical Pharmacology of Pain Research Center (Inserm U987), Centre d'Evaluation et de Traitement de la Douleur Ambroise Paré Hospital, Boulogne-Billancourt, France

Harald Breivik, Professor of Anaesthesiology, Department of Pain Management and Research; and Department of Anaesthesiology, Oslo University Hospital, and The University of Oslo, Norway

Silviu Brill, Past President Israel Pain Association; and Director, Institute of Pain Medicine, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Israel

Susan Broekmans, Clinical Nurse Specialist Pain, Leuven Center for Algology and Pain Management, Nursing Center of Excellence, UZ Leuven, Belgium

Adem Bytyqi, Specialist of Anesthesiology and ICU, General Hospital of Prizren, Kosovo

Agron Bytyqi, Coordinator, Centre for Continuing Professional Education, General Hospital of Prizren, Kosovo

Carina Carlsson, Head of Pain Clinic, Department of Anesthesia, Södertälje Hospital, Sweden

Christine Cedraschi, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva; and Multidisciplinary Pain Centre, Division of General Medical Rehabilitation; and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Geneva University Hospitals, Switzerland

Maxim Churyukanov, EFIC Councillor; and Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, I.M. Sechenov First MSMU, Neurologist, Pain Clinic of the National Research Center of Surgery, Moscow, Russia

Stefano Coaccioli, EFIC Italy Advisor; Head and Chief, Department of Internal Medicine, Rheumatology and Medical Pain Therapy, Perugia University School of Medicine; and S.Maria General Hospital, Terni, Italy

Lies de Ruddere, Senior Research Fellow, Ghent Health Psychology Lab, Department of Experimental-Clinical and Health Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium

Jan Dobrogowski, Chair of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Therapy, Department for Pain Research and Treatment, Medical College, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

Christopher Eccleston, Professor of Medical Psychology, and Director Centre for Pain Research, The University of Bath, UK

Elon Eisenberg, Past President Israel Pain Association and Director, Pain Research Unit, Institute of Pain Medicine, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel

Malin Ernberg, Professor and Section Head, Orofacial Pain and Jaw Function, Department of Dental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet; and Scandinavian Center of Neurosciences (SCON), Huddinge, Sweden

Pedro Ferreira, Associate Professor, Health Economics, Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra; Director, Centre for Health Studies and Research, University of Coimbra; and School of Economics, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Gertie Filippini, Past President Dutch Pain Society; and Consultant Anesthesiologist, Bernhoven, Uden, The Netherlands

Mira Fingler, President of Croatian Pain Society, Osijek, Croatia

David Finn, Professor of Pharmacology and Therapeutics; and Co-Director, Centre for Pain Research, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, School of Medicine, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

Patrice Forget, Vice-President of the Belgian Pain Society; Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Vrije Universiteit Brussels; and Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussels, Belgium

Brona Fullen, School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science and Director, University College Dublin Centre for Translational Pain Research, University College Dublin, Ireland

Rafael Galvez Mateos, Head, Pain Unit, Virgen de la Nieves University Hospital, Granada, Spain

Eva Gåve, Department of Women's and Children's Health and Department of Neuroscience, Uppsala University Children's Hospital, Sweden

Conny Goethals, Executive Secretary, Belgian Pain Society, Pellenberg, Belgium

Iveta Golubovska, Head, Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Department, Hospital of Traumatology and Orthopaedics, Riga, Latvia

Gitte Handberg, Chairman, Danish Pain Society; and Chief physician, Pain Center South, Odense University Hospital, Norway

Guy Hans, President of the Belgian Pain Society; and Multidisciplinair Pijncentrum, Universitair Ziekenhuis Antwerpen, Edegem, Belgium

Thomas Isenberg, Executive Officer, German Pain Society (Deutsche Schmerzgesellschaft e.V), Berlin, Germany

Amira Karkin-Tais, President, Association for Pain Therapy in Bosnia and Herzegovina (APTBandH), Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Rolf Karlsten, Head, Rehabilitation Medicine and Pain Centre, Department of Surgical Sciences/Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Uppsala University, Sweden

Magdalena Kocot-Kepska, Chair, Anaesthesiology and Intensive Therapy, Department for Pain Research and Treatment, Medical College, Krakow, Poland

Marija Cesar Komar, Consultant in Anesthesiology, Head of Pain Unit, General Hospital Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia

Andreas Kopf, Chairman of EFIC Educational Committee; Visiting Professor Department of Medical Physiology University of Nairobi; and Head, Department of Anaesthesiology and Surgical Intensive Care, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Germany

Jirí Kozák, Head, Centre for the Study and Treatment of Pain, Charles University; and President of Czech Pain Society, Prague, Czech Republic

Michael Kukushkin, Executive Secretary, Russian Association for the Study of Pain; and Professor and Director of Fundamental and Applied Pain Laboratories, General Pathology and Pathophysiology Institute, Moscow, Russia

Marta Kulichová , President of Slovak Society for Study and Treatment of Pain (SSSTP); and Head of Chronic Pain Department, Martin University Hospital, Slovakia

Maksim Kunevich, Senior Anesthesiologist, Pain Management; Deputy Director, Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Department, East-Viru Central Hospital; and Board Member, Estonian Pain Society
Kohtla-Järve, Ida-Viruma, Estonia

Koen Lauwers, Head, Pain Centre, AZ Klina Brasschaat, Antwerp, Belgium

Bruno Leroy, Head of Service, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Eupen Hospital, Belgium

Rudolf Likar, Head, Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, General Hospital Klagenfurt; and Secretary-General, Austrian Pain Society and EFIC Councillor, Austria

Malin Lindbäck, Psychologist, The Pain Clinic, Pain Center, Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Danderyd´s University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

André Ljutow, President of Swiss Association for the Study of Pain; and Head, Centre for Pain Medicine, Swiss Paraplegic Centre, Nottwil/Lucerne, Switzerland.

Inara Logina, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Riga Stradins University; and Consultant in Pain, Care Unit, Pauls Stradins University Hospital, Riga, Latvia

Brian McGuire, Professor, Clinical Psychology; and Co-Director, Centre for Pain Research, School of Psychology National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

Juan Mico, Departamento de Neurociencias, Facultad de Medicina, Cadiz University, Cadix, Spain

Aleksejs Miscuks, Senior Consultant, Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Department, Hospital of Traumatology and Orthopaedics; and Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Latvian University, Riga, Latvia

Bart Morlion, European Pain Federation EFIC; and Professor, and Director, Leuven Centre for Algology and Pain Management,
University of Leuven, Belgium

Juha Nevantaus, President, Finnish Association for the Study of Pain; and Specialist in Anaesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Treatment, Central Hospital of Central Finland, Jyväskylä, Finland

Adriana Sarah Nica, Head, Rehabilitation Department, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Carol Davila Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

Joanne O'Brien, President Elect, Irish Pain Society; and Registered Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Department of Pain Medicine, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

Laserina O'Connor, Professor, Clinical Nursing; and Director of Pain Programs, University College Dublin School of Nursing Midwifery and Health Systems, University College Dublin, Belfield, Ireland

Nuri Süleyman Ozyalcin, Pain Specialist, Anesthesiology; and President Turkish Society of Pain, Istanbul, Turkey

Antonella Paladini, Department of Anaesthesiology and Pain Therapy, L'Aquila University School of Medicine, Italy

Elisabeth Persson, Department of Pain Rehabilitation Medicine, Skane University Hospital, Lund, Sweden; Department of Clinical Sciences, Danderyd Hospital, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm; and National Coordinator and Board Member, Swedish Quality Registry for Pain Rehabilitation, Sweden

Juan Perez Cajaraville, Clinical Director, Pain Services, HM University Hospitals, Madrid, Spain

Thorvaldur Skuli Palsson, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark

Gisèle Pickering, Professor of Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology, Clinical Pharmacology Centre, University Hospital, Laboratory of Fundamental and Clinical Pharmacology of Pain, Medical Faculty, Clermont-Ferrand, France

Miroslava Pjevic, Anaesthesiologist, Faculty of Medicine, University of Novi Sad, Serbia

Gorazd Požlep, Consultant in Anesthesiology, Head of Pain Center, University Clinical Center, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Ivan Radoš, Secretary of Croatian Pain Society, Head of the Institute for Pain Management, University Hospital Osijek, Croatia

Michiel Reneman, Co-chair Dutch Pain Society, ?and Professor, Rehabilitation Medicine, University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands

Richard Rokyta, Head, Department of Normal, Pathological and Clinical Physiology, Third Faculty of Medicine, Charles University; International and Scientific Secretary of Czech Pain Society; and Councilor of EAP-EFIC, Prague, Czech Republic

Vladimir Romanenko, Executive Secretary, Ukrainian Association for the Study of Pain; and Head, Department of Science; Shupik National Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education, Bohomolets National Medical University, Kyiv, Ukraine

Michael Schäfer, Professor and Vice-Chairman, Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Charité University Berlin, Germany

Marie-Claire Schommer, Nurse Pain Coordinator, Paediatric and Adult Services, Centre Hospitalier Chretien, Liège, Belgium

Arunas Sciupokas, Associate Professor of Neurology and Senior Lecturer, Department of Neurology, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania

Aleksandra Shilova, General Surgery Resident, Tartu University Hospital; Surgical Department, East-Viru Central Hospital; and Member of the Estonian Pain Society, Kohtla-Järve, Ida-Viruma, Estonia

Nevenka Krcevski-Skvarc, Founder of Slovenian Association for Pain Management (SZZB), First president; Head, Pain Unit and Palliative Care, University Hospital Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia

Cathy Stannard, Consultant in Complex Pain and Pain Transformation Programme Clinical Lead, NHS Gloucestershire Central Commissioning Group, UK

Délia Szok, Secretary of the Hungarian Pain Society; and Department of Neurology, University of Szeged, Hungary

János Szolcsányi, EFIC Councilor of the Hungarian Pain Society; and Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy, University of Pécs, Hungary

János Tajti, President of the Hungarian Pain Society; and Department of Neurology, University of Szeged, Hungary

Ann Taylor, Reader in Medical Education, Centre for Medical Education, Cardiff University, Wales, UK

Atanas Temelkov, Chief, Clinic of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Alexandrovska University Hospital, Sofia, Bulgaria

Thomas R. Tölle, Head, Interdisciplinary Pain Clinic, Department of Neurology, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Ana Valentim, Consultant in Anaesthesiology, Chronic Pain Unit, Department of Anaesthesiology , Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

Joop van Griensven, President, Pain Alliance Europe (PAE), Brussels, Belgium

Norbert van Rooij, Head, Governmental Affairs and Patient Centricity, Europe, Grünenthal GmbH, Aachen, Germany

Apostol Vaso, President, Albanian Pain Society (Shoqata Shqiptare E Dhimbjes); and Consultant Anaesthetist, Department of Anaesthesia, University of Tirana, Albania

Raymond Victory, Consultant in Pain Medicine, St. Vincent's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

Kris Vissers, Co-chair Dutch Pain Society; and Professor Anesthesiology, Pain and Palliative Medicine, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Mariano Votta, Director, Active Citizenship Network, Responsible European Affairs, Cittadinanzattiva, Rome, Italy

Julia Wager, German Paediatric Pain Centre, Children's and Adolescents' Hospital Datteln; and Department of Children's Pain Therapy and Paediatric Palliative Care, Witten/Herdecke University, Faculty of Health, School of Medicine, Witten, Germany

Christopher Wells, Past President of the European Pain Federation EFIC, Belgium

Astrid Woodhouse, Physical Therapist, Multidisciplinary Pain Center; and National Center for Competence in Complex Symptom Disorders, St. Olav's Hospital, Trondheim, Norway

Shelagh Wright, Committee Member, Irish Pain Society and Irish Pain Research Network, Ireland

Nikilay N Yakhno, Professor and Director of Neurology Science Departmen, I.M. Sechenov First MSMU Research Center; and President, Russian Association for the Study of Pain, Moscow, Russia

Boris Zernikow, Head, German Paediatric Pain Centre, Children's and Adolescents' Hospital, Datteln; and Chair of Children's Pain Therapy and Paediatric Palliative Care, Witten/Herdecke University, Faculty of Health, School of Medicine, Witten, Germany