About Us

We are a special interest group of the International Assocation for the Study of Pain® . Special Interest Groups provide a forum for clinicians and researchers to discuss specific interests and issues in pain in depth. Membership is through the IASP www.iasp-pain.org.

We were formed in February 2004 from a group which met at the 10th World Congress on Pain in 2002. There we held a lively and well-attended workshop whose content is reflected in part in chapter 62 of the Proceedings of the Congress. We had our first business meeting on 24th August 2005, at the 11th World Congress.

We are governed by the bye-laws for the International Association for the Study of Pain®

Click here to see a presentation on 'Pain in Torture Survivors', which was shown at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the British Pain Society on 26th April 2006. The images in the presentation have been used with kind permission from Joe Sacco

Purposes of the Special Interest Group

Our purposes are as follows:-

• To promote the recognition and appropriate treatment of pain resulting from torture, organised violence and war.
  
• To promote mutual education and training of health care workers who care for survivors of torture, organised violence and war, and those who work in pain services.
  
• To promote liaison and exchange of information between pain treatment services and organisations working with survivors of torture, organised violence and war.
  
• To foster research on all aspects of pain resulting from torture, organised violence and war.
  
• To establish an international forum within the pain field for discussion and action, using knowledge about pain to mitigate the health effects of torture, organised violence and war.

SIG Officers

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This page last modified 12 March, 2010 by Will Fitzmaurice