Free Paper Sessions

Free paper sessions will be held on Tuesday 17 March 2015, from 1.30 pm - 3.00 pm.

Please click below for session outlines and speakers. Speakers are given 10 minutes to present their paper, followed by 5 minutes for Q&A.

Authors must register by the early bird deadline, Friday 23 January 2015 to ensure their free paper is kept in the program. Authors who do not register by this date may have their paper removed from the program. Any questions should be directed to the Conference Secretariat.

Free Paper Session 1 - Musculoskeletal pain conditions

• Carolyn Berryman, To go or to not go: An ERP study of response inhibition in people with somatic symptom disorder
• James Mcauleuy, What triggers an acute episode of back pain? An evaluation of online conversations on the social media platform Twitter
• Luke Heales, Forearm muscle activity is altered bilaterally in people with unilateral lateral epicondylalgia
• Ashley Pedler, Are fatty infiltrates present in remote muscles in patients with chronic whiplash?
• Brooke Coombes, Does exercise above or below pain threshold influence pain perception in chronic lateral epicondylalgia?
• Ian Skinner, Motor imagery training decreases pain on loading in people with chronic achiles tendinopathy: a preliminary randomised cross-over experiment

Free Paper Session 2 - Pain across the lifespan

• Caroline Phelan - Pain management of older people in the acute setting: A critical ethnography of decision making on an acute surgical ward
• Jane Chalmers, Developing a reliable measure of the impact of pelvic pain: The pelvic pain impact questionnaire (ppiq)
• Ban Leong Sng, Risk factors for chronic post-hysterectomy pain in Asian women: Pilot study
• Jenny Sung, Factors associated with persistent pain following breast cancer treatment
• Cassandra Wong, Rigidity but not tremor is associated with pain in people with Parkinson’s disease
• Flavia Di Pietro, Cortical representation in upper-limb complex regional pain syndrome is unrelated to use of the hands

Free Paper Session 3 - Cohort studies and clinical trials in pain

• Lena Sandin Wranker, The epidemiology of pain in Swedish men and women between 2003 and 2012: Results from the longitudinal component of the Swedish national study of aging and care  –  Blekinge
• Adrian Traeger, Development and validation of a risk screening tool for acute low back pain in primary care
• Markus Huebscher, Physical activity does not moderate the relationship between depression and low back pain – Results from the longitudinal study of aging Danish twins (lsadt)
• David Champion, Sensitivity to multiple sensory experiences in primary pain disorders and in chronic pain: a twin family study
• Hopin Lee, How does disability develop from back and neck pain? A systematic review of mediating variables
• Christine Lin, The effectiveness of rehabilitation on pain and other outcomes after ankle fracture

Free Paper Session 4 - Animal models of pain

• Arjun Muralidharan, Establishment of a rat model of low back pain
• Jennifer Deuis, Targeting the peripheral kappa opioid receptor does not result in analgesia
• Felicity Yaqin Han, Intrathecal ketamine enhances intrathecal hydromorphone analgesia in cisplatin-induced cipn rats
• Kathleen Yin, Establishment and optimisation of a murine model of burn injury
• Nemat Khan, Role of BDNF-TRKB signalling in the development of multiple sclerosis-induced neuropathic pain
• Mathilde Israel, Ciguatoxin: a non-selective sodium channel modulator that causes spontaneous pain via nav1.6 mediated pathways

Free Paper Session 5 - Psychological factors and the assessment of pain

• Jane Royle, Paindetect scores are associated with psychological factors
• Adele Eather, Fear of pain mediates the relationship between pain and traumatic stress symptoms in a daily diary study of acute whiplash patients
• Mustafa Atee, Evaluation of an automated facial recognition software application for assessment of pain among chronic pain sufferers
• Stephanie Valle, What predicts improvement in a multidisciplinary pain management program?
• Karl Bagraith, Impact of the ‘initiative on methods, measurement, and pain assessment in clinical trials’ (IMMPACT) recommended core outcome measures in pain research
• Zhen Zheng, Electroacupuncture and cognitive behavioural therapy for tension type headache: A randomised controlled trial

Free Paper Session 6 - Pharmacology and physiology

• Zhen Zheng, The perspectives of people taking opioids for chronic pain: A model of medicine taking
• Seema Kalra, To compare the efficacy of fentanyl as an adjuvant to intrathecal hyperbaric levobupivacaine, for inguinal herniorrhaphy: A prospective, randomised, double blind trial
• Bianca Hoban, Sedative load among people with chronic non-cancer pain prescribed opioids:  Associations with drowsiness and emergency health service utilisation
• Jason Ivanusic, GDNF family ligand signalling in bone pain
• Sophie Kobuch, Effects of gender on the sustained increases or decreases in muscle sympathetic nerve activity during tonic muscle pain
• Anthony Tsay, The contribution of muscle spindles to limb position sense in patients with chronic pain