Science and medicine have a long and troubling history of reinforcing racist, anti-ethnic, and sexist attitudes and beliefs. Pain science is no exception. Misconceptions about pain sensitivity propounded by physicians and scientists during the 19th and 20th centuries reified existing social hierarchies, continuing to this day. Pain care remains heavily influenced by prejudices and misconceptions …
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La SEN elabora el libro “Neurología y Mujer”
The Spanish Society of Neurology (SEN) has just published the book “Neurology and Women” with the aim of trying to improve the management of neurological diseases in women. This book, which is an update on the management of the most prevalent neurological pathologies, analyses in detail all the particularities that each of them has in …
Audiovisual projection: Chimpanzees also experience menopause
COLLOQUIUM: Dr. Juani Lafaja, gynecologist Irene Ateriod, sexologist Ana Peisó, Clinical Pharmacologist Saturday 11/4/2023 at 6:30 p.m. at the Pynchon&Co Bookstore, Alicante
ALASS webinar series
The “ALASS 2022 Webinar Series” addresses several discussion topics on issues raised by the COVID-19 pandemic with a comparative perspective across countries and health systems. 10/25/2023 – THE SOCIAL LEGITIMACY OF PAIN. Presenters: – Rafael Serrano del Rosal. Research Professor at IESA-CSIC (Spain), he holds a PhD in Sociology and since 2017 he has been …
Grela Bravo and her vision of chronic pain (VIDEO)
Grela Bravo, psychologist, mediator, poet and writer, talks about chronic pain and offers us her point of view on how to deal with it.
Job proposal for researchers
A 4-year predoctoral scholarship is offered for candidates with a master’s degree in neurosciences or related sciences who wish to complete their doctorate at the University of the Balearic Islands (Spain) on affective neuromodulation and pain. The annual gross salary will be 25,840 euros, with annual increases. The deadline to apply for the scholarship will …
Does Persistent Pain Understand Gender? 2nd CAMFiC Conference on the occasion of World Day Against Pain
Pain is one of the most frequent reasons for consultation in primary care. Men and women have different responses to the same pain stimuli, making increased sensitivity to pain more prevalent in the female sex, as well as pathologies causing persistent pain. Currently, there is a considerable gender bias both socially and in the medical …
Chronic Pain Barometer in Spain 2022
A new study on the situation of PAIN in Spain, carried out by the Pain Observatory of the University of Cadiz with the support of the Grünenthal Foundation, confirms that CHRONIC PAIN affects a quarter of the adult population, especially affecting women. This study was presented in Madrid on April 25 at the “Pain Forum: …
May 12th World Fibromyalgia Day
Dr. Antonio Collado Doctor of Medicine, specialist in Rheumatology and co-author of ‘Fibromyalgia. Essential advice and treatments’ Dr. Antonio Collado, a rheumatologist and expert in fibromyalgia, talks to us about the latest advances in the treatment of this disease that causes chronic musculoskeletal pain and offers advice to alleviate its symptoms. “In fibromyalgia, …
A writer with fibromyalgia says that “accepting fragility is the beginning of all strength”
– This Friday marks World Fibromyalgia Day – More than 276,000 people suffer from this pathology in Spain Grela Bravo is a clinical psychologist, social and intercultural mediator, writer, co-founder of the platform ‘Mujer y Dolor’, but above all she is a woman who has reconciled herself with her illness, fibromyalgia, to the point of …