📸 Highlights from the 18th #QPRN Annual Retreat

A great moment of exchange for the #PainResearch community.

🌟 Congratulations to the student poster session award recipients: Jax Norman, Matthew Wong, and Nathan Meneboo.

Thank you to @rqrd-qprn.bsky.social for organizing this wonderful event! ✨

🎙️ QPRN @rqrd-qprn.bsky.social Lunch & Talk 🎙️

Nourishing wellness: Nutrition and Self-Management Strategies to Overcome Pain

Join us for two engaging talks on Jan 16, 2026 at 12pm

🔗 us02web.zoom.us/j/81010194591

#PainResearch #Nutrition #QPRN

📢 Call for participation: Workshop at the #QPRN Annual Retreat 📢

QNJPI and @rqrd-qprn.bsky.social members are invited to join a workshop on advancing #HealthEquity and inclusion in #PainResearch.

🗓Jan 19, 2026
📬 Contact us by Dec 17, 2025:
jonathan.bichon.cnmtl@ssss.gouv.qc.ca | +1 438-929-2216

Nouvelle publication de nos membres #RQRD Audrey Grant, Francis Beaudry, Ji Zhang et al.

New publication from our #QPRN members Audrey Grant, Francis Beaudry, Ji Zhang et al.

Happens today with our #QPRN member Dr. @dremilymcd.bsky.social

🔗 Register: deprescribingnetwork.ca/5q-webinar

The body is able to regulate pain... but then why doesn't it do so in cases of #ChronicPain? 🤔

In their #PleinsFeuxSurLaRelève video, Manuela Lefort Holguin and Marilyn Frézier (GREPAQ) explore osteoarthritis and its mechanisms in pets 🐾

🎥 zurl.co/njrU5

#QPRN

Opioids can help relieve #ChronicPain, but 1 in 20 patients are at risk of inappropriate use. 💊

#QPRN members are encouraging practice guidelines to support clinicians.

Learn more 👉 qprn.ca/en/2024/08/0...

#PrioritizePain #Opioids

The #QPRN is funding the #ULTRa project, which aims to explore the use of #ArtificialIntelligence to support the treatment of #lowbackpain. 🩺💻

📆 Participate by September 30, 2025.

📩 antoine.fourre@usherbrooke.ca

@usherbrooke.bsky.social @fmoq.bsky.social @physiocan.bsky.social

#PainResearch

🌍 One in five adult people worldwide lives with #pain.

During this International #Pain Awareness Month, the #QPRN highlights the resilience of these people and the commitment of scientists to advancing #PainResearch in order to improve quality of life.

Is group physiotherapy as effective as individual sessions for pain relief?

Discover the #PainResearch project of Frédérique Dupuis, physiotherapist and doctoral student at @ulaval.ca with her popular science video #PleinsFeuxSurLaRelève (in French) 🎥👇

zurl.co/Yrzkk

#QPRN

Migraines, dizziness, digestive problems... Could they be linked to anxiety? How can these symptoms be relieved? 🤔

Find the full answer to the August #QuestionOfTheMonth on our website ➡️ qprn.ca/en/question/...

#PainResearch #Pain #Anxiety #QPRN

Discover touch and #pain through coloring! 🖍️

The #QPRN funded volume 2 of the books by @theneuronfamily.bsky.social, created by neuroscientists Maria Zamfir and Marion Van Horn (@mcgill.ca).

The book featured on CTV News 👉 www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/video...

#PopularizedScience

🗞️ #QPRNmember in the media: A @evp82.bsky.social (McGill University) study on #ChronicPain in @ctvnewswinnipeg.bsky.social and Mirage News.

👉 A holistic approach integrating biology, mental health and stress to better understand and treat pain.

🔗 qprn.ca/en/investiga...

#PainResearch #QPRN

🗞️ #QPRNmember in the media: revised and improved algorithm for the management of #LowBackPain, presented by Dr. Anne Marie Pinard (@ulaval.ca, @chudequebec.bsky.social) in @lesoleil.com 👇

Here, in French : www.lesoleil.com/actualites/s...

Photo : Ryan Remiorz - La Presse Canadienne Archives

#QPRN

Chronic pain & post-traumatic stress disorder #PTSD: a mutually reinforcing duo.

How can we manage this comorbidity?

👇 Discover our #QPRN #QuestionOfTheMonth

qprn.ca/en/question/...

Ask your own #PainResearch question ➡️ qprn.ca/en/we-answer...

Ready for the Montreal Conference on Pain Circuits! 🌆

The #QPRN is proud to co-organize this international event dedicated to neural pain circuits. 🧠

Check out the program 👉 montrealpaincircuits.com

#MTLPain25 @lawmcgill.bsky.social @fondsrechercheqc.bsky.social

Our team is pleased to present one final #QPRN consortium: Veterans' Health. 🎖️🌹

The objectives are to improve navigation of the healthcare system for veterans living with pain, to catalyze favorable care pathways, and to promote #self-management.

👉 qprn.ca/en/2025/05/1...

#Veterans #ChronicPain

At #QPRN, we believe that the involvement of people with lived experience of #pain in research projects is essential.

🎥 A recent AQDC conference demystifies partnerships with patients in #PainResearch (in French) 👇

youtu.be/cqwzLC6dFxA?...

#Pain is often considered a #symptom of another illness and is rarely listed as the main reason for consultation.

At #QPRN, we know that pain is not just a symptom: it is an issue in its own right that deserves to be recognized as such. 💡

#PrioritizePain

#QPRN Consortium: Continuum and #Pain Care Trajectories. 🩺📍

The objectives are to develop #knowledge mobilization tools and to promote timely and equitable #service delivery. 🏥

To learn more about the advances, projects, and knowledge related to this consortium: qprn.ca/en/2025/05/1...

📣 Are you someone who has benefited from #rehabilitation or a caregiver? You could help #research by taking a brief survey, in English or French! 🙌

For patients 👉 sondage.crir.ca/redcap/surve...

For caregivers 👉 sondage.crir.ca/redcap/surve...

📆 Until December 31, 2025

#QPRN

🎙️ #LetsTalkAboutPain : Prof. Jeffrey Mogil (@mcgill.ca, #QPRN member) discusses #PainResearch with McGill University PhD candidate Hannah Derue: impacts of studies, challenges to overcome, ideal future for #PainCare. 🔬

Listen here 👉 open.spotify.com/episode/7m9e...

#SciComm #Podcast #PainTreatment

There are numerous #definitions of acute low back #pain... And this has important implications.

Check out our latest popularized infographic “Pain: #ScienceDemystified ” to discover the key findings of this #PainResearch conducted by many #QPRN members. 👇

#QPRN Consortium: Pain Prevention and Sustainable Health for All. ❤️🌱👤

To prevent pain and promote the inclusion of populations disproportionately affected by pain or marginalized by their social identity.

👉 qprn.ca/en/2025/05/1...

#SustainableHealthcare #QuebecResearch

Tomorrow, June 21st, we will celebrate National Indigenous Peoples Day #NIPD2025.

Discover Joséanne Desrosiers' (UQAT) research on the experiences of First Nations people living with chronic pain (in French)👇

www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9f5...

#InclusiveResearch #QPRN

Let’s Walk Together Against Chronic Pain 2025: 756 km covered in seven cities across Quebec! 👏

The #QPRN was there to show its #support and #commitment to the cause.

Thank you to the organizing partners and everyone who attended. ❤️

Details 👉 qprn.ca/en/2025/05/3...

The #QPRN team is pleased to present the #PainResearch #consortium: “Eco-bio-psycho-social therapies and approaches". 🏙️🌱👤

So that all factors involved in the experience of #pain are taken into account, both in #research and in #pain management.

Find out more 👉 qprn.ca/en/2025/05/1...

🔎 Access to #pain care in #Quebec : the three issues identified by specialists.

#QPRN has set up #consortia to promote innovative research focused on the needs of the Quebec ecosystem.

Find out 👉 qprn.ca/en/our-missi...

#PrioritizePain

🙌 The #QPRN is launching five #Consortia to promote #PainResearch in Quebec!

Discover the first one: “Quebec Consortium on Treatment Efficacy and Safety” 🌱💊

➡️ zurl.co/pXEJN

#PersonalizedCare #TherapeuticApproach