3rd EURO-PAIN SCHOOL on
Pain Related Disability:
Focus on musculoskeletal pain
Piacenza | "La Bellotta". 28 September - 2 October 2025
School's Director: Roberto Casale
Piacenza, Piazza Cavalli. Foto dall'Archivio del Comune di Piacenza
Course Aim
Musculoskeletal pain is one of the main causes of disability worldwide, severely impacting the quality of life of those affected and society as a whole. Its epidemiological relevance is evident from its high prevalence and significant impact on public health. To effectively address musculoskeletal pain, it is essential to adopt a multidisciplinary approach that integrates different skills and therapeutic perspectives, taking into account the physical, psychological and social dimensions of the problem.
Rehabilitation and pain control are fundamental aspects in the management of the person with musculoskeletal pain. Rehabilitation aims to restore functionality and improve quality of life through a program of targeted exercises, manual techniques and physical therapies. Pain control, on the other hand, focuses on reducing suffering and increasing pain tolerance, using a combination of pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions.
There can be no one without the other.
The “Europain School” aims to address pain and pain related disability in musculoskeletal disorders in a multidimensional, integrated and multidisciplinary way. For this reason, alongside electures on functional neuroanatomy, clinical pharmacology and functional rehabilitation, a series of workshops and hands on sessions on some non-invasive or minimally invasive treatments for pain control in a rehabilitation setting have been organised.
EURO-PAIN SCHOOL on
Rehabilitation of pain and pain-related disability
Focus on Central Pain: CPSP & SCI
Piacenza | "La Bellotta". 22-26 September 2024
School's Director: Roberto Casale
Piacenza, Piazza Cavalli. Foto dall'Archivio del Comune di Piacenza
Course Aim
The recognition that acute and chronic pain have two distinct mechanisms and that chronic pain is a disease in its own right has been a major insight.
More recently WHO have stated that chronic pain is a disabling disease and therefore that physical and rehabilitation medicine has a pivotal role in the management of the chronic pain patient and related disability.
In our daily practice we witness cases in which pain is the generator of disability as well as cases where the disability is becoming unbearable because of the presence of chronic pain.
The School will assist clinicians to refine their clinical diagnostic approach to identify various phenotypes of pain -nociceptive, neuropathic, Nociplastic-, to improve their ability to interpret clinical, instrumental and laboratory finding and to establish the most appropriate rehabilitation as well as physical and pharmacological treatment to overcome pain and the related disabling condition.
The 2024 edition is focused on central pain. Chronic Post Stroke Pain (CPSP) and pain in Spinal Cord Injuries (SCI) are already “per se” a dramatic clinical condition. In clinical practice this situation can be even more disabling as other form of pains i.e nociceptive and nociplastic are overlapping the neuropathic component making a correct diagnosis and rehabilitation approach not so easy to disentangle. A better understanding of the complexity of pain in stroke and spinal cord injured patients has an important role in providing appropriate and adequate rehabilitation management for these patients.
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