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IASP will host 18 Special Interest Group (SIG) Symposia on 26 October at the 2026 World Congress on Pain. SIG Symposia require additional registration to attend.
SIG Symposia provide attendees with presentations and discussions on a single, specific research or educational topic in the pain field. Each session is approximately 4 hours.
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Advancing Placebo Research: Methodological Innovation, Expectation Measurement, and Bias Reduction
Assessing and Managing Pain in Patients with Limited Communication Abilities
From Data to Decisions: Standards, Trials, and Global Scale for Pain Registries
From Incision to Impact: Global Strategies to Prevent Persistent Postsurgical Pain and long-term opioid use
From Molecules to Patients, from Mechanisms to Treatments: Neuropathic Pain in its Global Year
From Teens to Post-Menopause: Female Pelvic Pain Throughout the Lifespan
Integrating Pain Phenotypes, Pain Science Education and Behavioural Change: Toward Personalized Pain Approaches
New Advances in the Diagnosis and Management of Musculoskeletal Pain
Next-Gen Pediatric Pain Care: Building Adaptive and Scalable Solutions Across Care Settings
Pain & Trauma; Today and Tomorrow
Pain Education SIG Symposium: Innovations in Pain Education – Optimizing the Experiences of Trainees in a Hybrid Learning Environment
Sex, Gender, and Racial Differences in Pain across the Translational Research Spectrum in the Current Geo-Political Climate
Social Aspects of Pain: The Time is Now
The ‘Complex’ Realities of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome: Subtypes, Severity, and the Challenges of Classification
The Global Challenge of Orofacial Pain
The Rise of the Robots: Navigating Artificial Intelligence and Automation in Evidence Synthesis
To There and Back Again: Bridging Translational Neuroimaging and Mechanistic Insight in Human and Animal Research