RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IS A CRUCIAL PART OF THE ETHOS OF PAIN
Pain is actively involved in research and we partner with universities, societies and other professionalsin contributing to the body of scientific evidence and literature.
We have an in-house team of researchers and we present our projects at national and international conferences.
Pain is currently doing research on several topics and have partnered with professor Romy Parker of the University of Cape Town, professor Mongi Benjeddou of the University of the Western Cape and professor Ian Vlok of the University of Stellenbosch.
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY ASOCIATION OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY (OTASA)
Occupational Therapy Pain Management to Enable Occupational Engagement
CONTRIBUTORS:
OTASA acknowledges the following professionals for the compilation of this paper:
Linda Hiemstra
https://orcid.ory/0009-0005-9480-5532
Dershnee Devan https://orcid.ory/0000-0002-1738-6718
Helen Roome
https://orcid.ory/0009-0001-0977-2483
Gill Coetzee
https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7390-9315
CONFERENCES AND CONGRESSES
PAINSA 2024 DURBAN
Presentation by PAIN TEAM MEMBERS:​
​LINDA HIEMSTRA​
Aspects of immunology & inflammation.
From rock bottom to recovery: A patient’s autoimmune journey.
DR NADAH KARRIEM
Assessment tools in chronic pain.
DR KEENAU PEARCE
Poster presentation: Leveraging Demographic Data to Understand Degenerative Disc Disease Manifestations.
GILLIAN COETSE
An Update on CRPS.
DR MICHELLE KING
Mood and motivation in pain and palliation.
DR KEENAU PEARCE
Disc degenerative disease in South Africa: A case-control analysis of selected gene variants.
LINDA HIEMSTRA
Designing a patient-led education and support program for people living with chronic pain: Lessons learned.
CHIROPRACTIC ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH AFRICA ANNUAL CONGRESS JOHANNESBURG 2023
SETTING UP A NETWORK OF INTERVENTIONAL INTERDISSIPLINARY PAIN MANAGEMENT CLINICS, A PARADIGM SHIFT IN A FRACTURED LANDSCAPE
DR ADRIAAN LIEBENBERG
PAINSA 2023 JOHANNESBURG​
Presentation by PAIN TEAM MEMBERS:​
​RISK FACTOR-BASED PREDICTION OF FACET ARTHROPATHY AND IT’S IMPLICATION TOWARD BACK PAIN
Dr KEENAU PEARCE
​GRADED MOTOR IMAGERY WORKSHOP​ (PRE-AND POST-OPERATIVE REHABILITATION TO IMPROVE SURGICAL OUTCOMES IN THE GERIATRIC PATIENT​)
LINDA HIEMSTRA​
​POSTER PRESENTATION: REVIEW OF DIETARY MANAGEMENT FOR CHRONIC PAIN​
TESSA HILLE​
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PAINSA 2022 CAPE TOWN
PRESENTATIONS BY PAIN TEAM MEMBERS:
THE VALUE OF MOVEMENT ADJUSTED THERAPIES (MAT)
AND THE MCKENZIE METHOD (MM) IN THE TREATMENT OF LOWER BACK PAIN
NIKA BRAND
THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN SENSORY MODULATION DISORDER IN ADULTS AND THE PERCEPTION OF PAIN
LINDA HIEMSTRA
PAIN DON’T GO IT ALONE
LINDA HIEMSTRA
WALKING AS TREATMENT FOR BACK PAIN
DR ELZE-MARIE GREYLING
THE VALUE OF PATIENT PAIN NEUROSCIENCE EDUCATION IN THE TREATMENT OF LOWER BACK PAIN
DR CARYN APRIL
VALUE OF WEB-
BASED INTERVENTIONS IN MANAGEMENT OF LOWER BACK PAIN (LBP)
DR CARYN APRIL
CHANGES TO SPINAL SURGERY INDICATIONS –
SOMETIMES THE FINEST CUT IS NO CUT
DR ADRIAAN LIEBENBERG
DIAGNOSING THE CAUSE OF BACK PAIN –
HOW DO SURGEONS KNOW WHAT AND WHEN TO OPERATE
DR ADRIAAN LIEBENBERG
IASP2022 WORLD CONGRESS ON PAIN
TORONTO, CANADA
PRESENTATIONS BY PAIN TEAM MEMBERS:
SPINAL SURGERY INDICATIONS - WHAT HAS CHANGED?
DR ADRIAAN LIEBENBERG
INTERDISCIPLINARY INTERVENTIONAL WORKSHOPS
Pain hosts workshops for doctors and therapists wishing to establish a private interdisciplinary pain management service with an interventional aspect.
It is designed to provide foundational knowledge on the key concepts of pain science and on the intervention of medical and rehabilitation interventions.
Our latest workshop was hosted at PAIN Panorama and the Sunskills lab at Tygerberg Medical Campus from 19 – 21 January 2023.
ONGOING & FUTURE RESEARCH
PROJECT TITLE: SPINAL PAIN ANODYNE CLINICAL OUTCOME DATABASE (SPACE DATABASE)
HREC REFERENCE: R043/2021
LEAD INVESTIGATOR: PROFESSOR ROMY PARKER
UNIVERSITY: UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN
PROJECT TITLE: GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES AND INDIVIDUALIZED INTERVENTION FOR THE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF SPINAL DISC DEGENERATION, DISEASE AND ITS ASSOCIATED PAIN
ETHICS REFERENCE: BM22/4/7
LEAD INVESTIGATOR: PROFESSOR MONGI BENJEDDOU
UNIVERSITY: UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE
