11.06.2025
British Pain Society 2025
The CPNN+ team attends the British Pain Society Annual Scientific Meeting, Newport (UK) 3rd - 5th June 2025.
The CPNN+ team recently attended the annual scientific meeting in Newport on 3-5th June 2025. A session on Future technologies was presented by our network co-applicants: ‘Rehabilitation Methodologies’ by Helen Dawes, ‘Future technologies: engineering considerations’ by Alexandra Vuckovic & ‘Using immersive virtual reality to deliver nature-based interventions for chronic pain’ by Sam Hughes (all pictured). Our P.I, Ben Seymour, presented on ‘The neuroscience of pain: from brain circuits to clinical care’ on the final day. In addition, Valerie Sparkes presented a poster on our current artistic PPI project, ‘Living with Pain’. To find out more about this project, please visit https://www.marysadowling.co.uk/living-with-pain/.
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