The British Pain Society

10/09/2026

🌍 Global Pain Awareness Month | September 2026 🗓️

💡 What works for us might work for you.

Throughout September, our Expert Patient and Carer Committee (EPCC) has been sharing their top tips for living well with pain. 🤝💬

✨ Featured highlight:

EPCC member Mark Agathangelou shares how movement helps him stay in control of his pain. 🚶‍♂️🏃‍♀️ Getting up, going for a walk, and keeping regularly active not only helps maintain your physical condition—but also challenges some of the negative fear feedback loops that often make us want to stay still. 🧠💪

🎥 Watch his story here: https://youtu.be/m2_BRztyY8U?si=UkmIkO5u14hv8tQT

This September, for , members of the British Pai...

09/09/2026

☕️📣 To all Early Career Researchers!

The ECR Coffee Club is back - and this session is all about Poster Abstract Submissions for European Pain Federation EFIC 2027 Congress! 🎉📊

🗓 22 September 2026
🕛 12:00 CET
💻 Zoom (free & open to all ECRs)

Don’t miss this chance to get tips, ask questions, and boost your submission! 🚀

👉 Save your spot now: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/2s2OpDHIS-20rjPKOFREPw #/registration

Join the EFIC ECR Coffee Club, a relaxed monthly meetup for early career pain researchers! Connect with peers, share everyday research challenges and successes, exchange ideas, and grow your international network in an informal setting. Each session features a short thematic introduction followed by...

09/09/2026

This Pain Awareness Month, we’re starting something new: the British Pain Society Themed Year on AI, Technology and Innovation in Pain Management. 🧠💡

Over the next 12 months we’ll dive into:

AI, digital tools, wearables and remote monitoring

How tech can personalise treatment and support self-management

The important stuff too: governance, bias, privacy, equity and trust

You’ll see themed Pain News, podcasts, webinars, interviews and workshops — and our Expert Patient and Carer Committee will lead a monthly discussion so patient voices sit alongside clinical and research perspectives.

Come join us and help shape what better, safer, more equitable pain care looks like:
https://www.britishpainsociety.org/resources/bps-themed-year/

08/09/2026

❗️You Don't Have to Face Pain Alone

Pain is common – talking about it isn’t. Let’s change that.

Living with Chronic or long-term pain can sometimes feel isolating, but support is available, and you don't have to manage it on your own.

Connecting with others who understand what you're going through can provide reassurance, practical advice and confidence. Getting support early can help you stay active, stay connected, maintain your wellbeing and prevent things from becoming more difficult.

Find support, resources and community through:
🔗 https://painconcern.org.uk/

08/09/2026

🌍 World PT Day | 8 September 2026
This year’s theme: Cardiovascular Disease & Stroke

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the leading cause of death globally, claiming more than 20.5 million lives every year.
And the opportunity to prevent and reduce its impact is huge.

1 in 4 people will have a stroke in their lifetime.
Regular physical activity can significantly reduce the risk of CVD and stroke.
Almost all strokes can be prevented.

Just 30 minutes of exercise, five times a week, can reduce stroke risk by around 25%.

Physiotherapists play a vital role in turning this evidence into action.

From cardiac rehabilitation and personalised exercise programmes to stroke rehabilitation and supporting long-term physical activity, physiotherapists help people:

• Move more safely and confidently
• Manage cardiovascular risk factors and long-term conditions
• Reduce the risk of further cardiovascular events
• Regain function, independence and quality of life after stroke
• Build physical activity into everyday life

For people living with cardiovascular disease or recovering from stroke, physiotherapy isn't simply about movement - it's about helping people live well, stay independent and participate in the things that matter to them.

Today, we recognise the contribution of physiotherapists to prevention, rehabilitation and healthier lives worldwide.

Happy World PT Day!

08/09/2026

🌍 Global Pain Awareness Month | September 2026

What works for us might work for you

One of the most effective interventional innovations in recent years has been the role of patient advocates and mentors. It's often the input of those with lived experience, combined with enlightened clinical expertise, that brings about real change in people's lives.

While chronic pain may not entirely disappear, we can learn to better manage it. Throughout September, our Expert Patient and Carer Committee (EPCC) has been sharing their top tips for living well with pain.

🎥 Featured highlight: a powerful video from Tim Atkinson, explaining how listening to birdsong can help manage chronic pain

👉 Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA0k1UfvGFg

Together, we can amplify patient voices and improve pain care for everyone. 💙

A short film explaining how listening to birdsong can help manage c...

06/09/2026

⏰ FINAL CALL: workshop submissions

Tomorrow is the deadline to submit your proposal for EFIC 2027: Building Bridges in Pain: Thriving Through Communication.

Whether your idea is a:

🔹 Topical Workshop
🔹 Debate Workshop
🔹 Demonstration Workshop

…make sure your proposal is submitted by 7 September 2026.

⚠️ There will be no late-breaking workshop submission period. Only proposals submitted during the submission window will be considered for inclusion in the scientific programme.

Don’t miss the opportunity to help shape the programme for EFIC 2027 in Glasgow.

Submit now via the EFIC 2027 website https://europeanpainfederation.eu/efic2027

EFIC Congress 2027 (Pain in Europe XV): Glasgow, 21 to 23 April 2027. Submit an abstract, register, and join Europe's largest scientific congress on pain.

04/09/2026

🚨 Final weekend to submit your workshop proposal

The deadline is Monday 7 September 2026.

If you have been developing an idea for a workshop, now is the time to finalise and submit it.

EFIC 2027 is looking for engaging scientific sessions across the breadth of pain research and practice, including:

🔹 New and emerging research
🔹 Clinical and translational science
🔹 Areas of debate and differing perspectives
🔹 Interactive learning
🔹 Practical and visual demonstrations
🔹 Multidisciplinary approaches
🔹 Different professional and lived experience perspectives

The congress framework, Building Bridges in Pain: Thriving Through Communication, is intended to help connect people, disciplines and perspective

Watch the EFIC 2027 webinar to make sure your submission hits the brief

Only proposals submitted by 7 September will be considered for the programme.

Submit now via the EFIC 2027 website https://europeanpainfederation.eu/efic2027

EFIC Congress 2027 (Pain in Europe XV): Glasgow, 21 to 23 April 2027. Submit an abstract, register, and join Europe's largest scientific congress on pain.

01/09/2026

What is Chronic Pain?

Pain is common – talking about it isn’t. Let’s change that.

Chronic pain (also known as persistent or long-term pain) affects around 38% of people in Scotland, yet many people still find it difficult to talk about.

It’s a recognised health condition that continues beyond normal healing time and can affect every aspect of daily life – from work and relationships to sleep, mood and confidence.

Understanding pain is an important step towards managing it.

The more we learn about what is happening in our bodies, the more empowered we can feel to take positive steps forward.

Find out more about chronic pain and the support available:
🔗 https://www.nhsinform.scot/illnesses-and-conditions/brain-nerves-and-spinal-cord/chronic-pain

24/08/2026

📢 EFIC 2027 workshop submissions are open

Do you have an idea for a workshop for in Glasgow?

The deadline for workshop submissions is 7 September 2026 - and there will be no late-breaking workshop submission period.

This is an opportunity to bring together new research, different perspectives and practical learning from across the pain community.

Three workshop formats are available:

🔹 Topical workshops – presenting linked basic, translational or clinical research

🔹 Debate workshops – exploring areas of differing views, uncertainty or emerging hypotheses

🔹 Demonstration workshops – providing an interactive or visual educational experience, with a clear practical demonstration element

is built around the framework Building Bridges in Pain: Thriving Through Communication.

The theme is intended to support how ideas are framed and communicated — not to restrict the scientific topics that can be proposed.

📅 Submission deadline: 7 September 2026

Find out more and submit your proposal via the EFIC 2027 website :

https://europeanpainfederation.eu/efic2027/?utm_source=chatgpt.com