Pain Awareness Month ends today. Chronic pain does not. That is the awkward thing about awareness months. For roughly a quarter of American adults, the awareness is not seasonal. It is Tuesday morning, and the following Tuesday, and the one after that. So rather than a summary,…
Pain Awareness Month ends tomorrow. Here are the concrete routes into this work, in order of how much they ask of you. 1. Join the research registry The lowest-commitment option and the most useful. Joining the registry means we can contact you about studies you may be eligible…
We have spent this month introducing the people who do this work. It is fitting to end with the person who built the place they do it in. Roger B. Fillingim is the founding director of the Pain Research & Intervention Center of Excellence and one of the…
The Interdisciplinary Pain Research Journal Club is the most consistently running series PRICE has. It appears in the site’s event archive repeatedly across 2024 and 2025 — listed there under its former name, the Pain and Aging Journal Club — roughly monthly through the academic year. The format…
If you read our September 10 post about ULLTRA, the trial testing light therapy for jaw pain, you have already met some of Margarete Ribeiro-Dasilva’s work without meeting her. She is its principal investigator. She is a Clinical Professor in the Division of Prosthodontics at the UF College…
PRICE Pain Research Day – Friday, October 2nd – CTRB – 8:30 AM to 6:00 PM Pain Research Day is an opportunity to bring together faculty, fellows, residents, students and researchers from across the University of Florida and beyond to create an arena for networking and…
The myth: If the pain has lasted years and the scans are clean and the medications did not work, there is nothing left to try. What the evidence says: This is the myth that does the most damage, because it ends the conversation. Two examples from the…
PRICE runs two NIH-funded postdoctoral training programs. They are worth understanding as a pair, because the difference between them says something about where pain research is going. IMPART (T32) Funded by the National Institute on Aging through a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award, award 5T32AG049673. Directed…
Two years. That is the funding period for a trainee entering the IMPART T32 program at PRICE. IMPART is supported by the National Institutes of Health through a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award from the National Institute on Aging, award number 5T32AG049673. It is directed by…
The final week of Pain Awareness Month, and the national theme is One Movement. It is worth being precise about what that means, because “movement” can be a word that means very little. Here is the concrete version. Pain research at UF depends on a chain of…
