Scientific program
 

08:00 – 08:30 Registration and coffee
08:30 – 09:00 General Assembly (Members only)

Plenary sessions (with simultaneous translations Dutch <-> French)(*)
 

09:00 – 09:35 

ICD-11 as a communication tool for improved integrated pain management.

Omer Van Haute (Brussels) (*)
 

09:35 – 10:10

Nutrition, the gut-brain axis and pain.

Iris Coppieters and Lukas Van Oudenhove (Leuven) (*)

10:10 – 10:45

Pain and sleep: how to negotiate?

Hélène Bastuji (France) (*)
 

10:45 – 11:15

Coffee break

11:15 – 11:50

Not a passive experience. The role of cognition in pain perception.
Diana Torta (Leuven) English
 
11:50 – 12:25

Updates and trends in non invasive neuromodulation for pain relief: when evidence meets the person in pain.

Daniel Ciampi de Andrade (Denmark)(*)
 

12:25 – 12:35

BPS Award Prize Giving

André Mouraux
 

12:35 – 14:00

Lunch

Workshops 14h to 16h:

When registering online, you can select 1 or 2 workshops.
Each workshop lasts 1 hour and will be presented in Dutch/French.

Workshop 1

Mindfulness and hypnosis in chronic pain, Aminata Bicego (Liège) 
                                  
Workshop 2

"Fear and anxiety: it's all in the mind"; How to use new technology for calming children?

Niels Bogaerts (Roeselare) , Rita Verbrugge and Charlotte Verpoort (Brugge)
 

Accreditation has been requested for medical doctors and physiotherapists.