Our Mission

Transforming pain research and practice through interdisciplinary and person-centred validation of the pain experience.

Our Goals

  • Assemble a pain research group recognized for pain research, education, and management

  • Develop a chronic pain patient registry unique to Southwestern Ontario

  • Examine ways to improve the understanding of each other’s pain

  • Improve outcomes for people who live in painful bodies

  • Enhance pain research through a multidisciplinary approach

  • Disseminate information and offer resources to the community via community outreach initiatives

Our Research

The research our team does consists of the following:

  • Brain mechanisms of acute and chronic pain using different imaging techniques (MRI, EEG)

  • Novel and innovative ways of thinking and managing spinal pain

  • Investigating biomarkers of chronic pain using non-invasive brain stimulation and TMS-EEG

  • Opioid analgesics in chronic pain and long-term outcomes on the management of neuropathic pain

  • Mechanisms of osteoarthritis disease development and therapeutic targets for treatment

  • Understanding headache disorders and treating them

  • Chronic pain management combining pharmacologic and interventional techniques

  • Minimally invasive and hybrid surgical approaches for personalized treatment of disorders of the nervous system

  • Procedural sedation and management of acute pain in children

  • Pain and early life stress in infants, and youth with neurodevelopmental disorders using neuroimaging techniques

  • Improving interventional pain procedures and management of chronic neuropathic pain after spinal cord injury

  • Advancing rehabilitation and community integration for individuals with neurological conditions and chronic pain

  • Understanding the mechanisms underlying mental illnesses and substance use disorders

  • Investigating GPCRs and ion signaling as it relates to inflammation and pain

  • Neural control of reaching and object manipulation in humans, and hand use following peripheral nerve injury

  • Treatment services to adults with chronic pain conditions

  • Intersectionality between medicine and disability, including the lifeworld consequences of pain and injury

  • Enhancing precision medical imaging for musculoskeletal health, improving patient quality of life after joint replacement

  • Social epidemiology of chronic pain from a population health perspective

  • Clinical and methodological research related to musculoskeletal pain conditions