A lifestyle approach for managing persistent pain: Can we treat the Epigenome?

Jo Nijs
A lifestyle approach for managing persistent pain: Can we treat the Epigenome?
PAINtalks 2022
Organized by the Quebec Network of Junior Pain Investigators (QNJPI)
Abstract
Persistent pain has a tremendous personal and socioeconomic impact. Lifestyle factors such as physical (in)activity, sedentary behavior, stress, poor sleep, unhealthy diet, and smoking are associated with persistent pain severity and sustainment. This applies to all age categories, i.e., persistent pain across the lifespan. Yet current treatment options often do not, or only partly address the many lifestyle factors associated with persistent pain or attempt to address them in a standard format rather than providing an individually tailored multimodal lifestyle intervention. Therefore, this PAINtalks argues that various lifestyle factors should be addressed concomitantly into an individually tailored multimodal lifestyle intervention for people having persistent pain. Such a lifestyle approach is lots of fun for both patients & clinicians, especially when clinicians succeed in engaging their patients into the treatment program.
Biography
Jo Nijs holds a PhD in rehabilitation science and physiotherapy. He is professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Brussels, Belgium), physiotherapist/manual therapist at the University Hospital Brussels, holder of a Chair on oncological physiotherapy funded by the Berekuyl Academy, the Netherlands, and Visiting Professor at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden). Jo runs the Pain in Motion international and interdisciplinary research group.
Thank you to :
- Guylaine Tanguay (master of ceremonies)
- Denis François Gravel (coaching): presentability...
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- Catherine Métivier - Atelier Jaune Moutarde (Designer graphique )
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Thank you to our partners :
- Quebec Network of Junior Pain Investigators (QNJPI)
- Quebec Pain Research Network (QPRN)
- Association québécoise de la douleur chronique (AQDC)
- Association de soutien et d'information face à la douleur (ASID)
- Société québécoise de la fibromyalgie (SQF)
- Migraine Québec
- Quebec Pain Society (SQD)
- Canadian Pain Society (CPS)
- European Pain School (EPS)
- North American Pain School (NAPS)
Thank you to our diamond sponsors :
- PRESENTability
- Gouvernement du Québec (Ministère de la santé et des services sociaux)
- Louise & Alan Edwards Foundation (LAEF)