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== Description  ==
== Description  ==


The [http://www.ppaonline.co.uk/ Physiotherapy Pain Association] (PPA) is the Professional Network of the UK`s Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and part of its recently formed NeuroMusculoskeletal Alliance. It is both pleased and proud to lead this project by supervising development of the [[Pain|Physiopedia Pain section]]. We are actively forging working relationships with the North British Pain Association (NBPA), The British Pain Society and the World Congress of Physical Therapy (WCPT).
The [http://www.ppaonline.co.uk/ Physiotherapy Pain Association] (PPA) is the Professional Network of the UK`s Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and part of its recently formed NeuroMusculoskeletal Alliance. It is both pleased and proud to lead this project by supervising development of the [[Pain|Physiopedia Pain section]]. 


As a project-in-development we intend to populate the site with practical, credible and thought-provoking information on the science of pain, its assessment and management. Much of our direction will be guided by the new [http://www.iasp-pain.org/Content/NavigationMenu/GeneralResourceLinks/Curricula/Therapy/default.htm IASP Curriculum Outline on Pain for Physical Therapy].  We very much hope you will watch this space over the coming months and beyond and ultimately find it a useful point of reference…..and if you do, we hope you will guide colleagues towards it!
As a project-in-development we intend to populate the site with practical, credible and thought-provoking information on the science of pain, its assessment and management. Much of our direction will be guided by the new [http://www.iasp-pain.org/Content/NavigationMenu/GeneralResourceLinks/Curricula/Therapy/default.htm IASP Curriculum Outline on Pain for Physical Therapy].  We very much hope you will watch this space over the coming months and beyond and ultimately find it a useful point of reference…..and if you do, we hope you will guide colleagues towards it!  


== Project Lead  ==
== Project Lead  ==


[[User:Martin Hey|Martin Hey]]
[[User:Martin Hey|Martin Hey]]  


== Project Dates  ==
== Project Dates  ==
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== Articles  ==
== Articles  ==


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*[[Nociception]]
*[[Peripheral sensitization]]
*[[Neurogenic inflammation]]
*[[Processing of pain transmission]]&nbsp;&nbsp;(ion channels, excitatory neurotransmitters, and inhibitory neurotransmitters)&nbsp;
*[[Animal models of pain]] &nbsp;&nbsp;
*[[Sensory discriminative and motivational affective component of pain]]
*[[Central sensitization]]
*[[Pain behaviors]] (referred pain, primary hyperalgesia, secondary hyperalgesia, allodynia).
*[[Enhancement of pain transmission in injury]]
*[[Descending pathways]]
*[[Pain facilitation and pain inhibition]]
*[[Chronic pain]]
*[[The experience of pain]]
*[[Theories on the interactions between pain and motor function]]


[[Category:Projects]]
[[Category:Projects]]

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Description[edit | edit source]

The Physiotherapy Pain Association (PPA) is the Professional Network of the UK`s Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and part of its recently formed NeuroMusculoskeletal Alliance. It is both pleased and proud to lead this project by supervising development of the Physiopedia Pain section

As a project-in-development we intend to populate the site with practical, credible and thought-provoking information on the science of pain, its assessment and management. Much of our direction will be guided by the new IASP Curriculum Outline on Pain for Physical Therapy.  We very much hope you will watch this space over the coming months and beyond and ultimately find it a useful point of reference…..and if you do, we hope you will guide colleagues towards it!

Project Lead[edit | edit source]

Martin Hey

Project Dates[edit | edit source]

December 2011 onwards

Articles[edit | edit source]