DATE Lab Chats: CPS Annual Scientific Meeting
The Canadian Pain Society (CPS) is a national organization composed of scientists, health professionals, educators and advocates with an interest interest in pain research and management in an attempt to reduce the burden of pain and improve the health of Canadians. This year, the CPS 42nd Annual Scientific Meeting took place from May 10-13 in Montreal with keynote speakers and poster presentations shedding light on various aspects of chronic pain management.
MScOT students Emily and Vanessa had the opportunity to share their research at this year’s conference. We sat down with them to chat about their experiences and learn more about their work.
What was one thing you learned during this conference that made you change the way you view your project?
Emily:
The conference allowed us to be surrounded a wide range of clinicians and researchers within the pain field, which to be highlighted the diversity of the pain and chronic pain experience. I feel that this highlighted for me that in future iterations, the framework we are developing should include an element of customizability. This change would help to ensure that the framework can better take into consideration the unique and always evolving experience of individuals with chronic pain.
Vanessa
I learned a few things from this past conference! For example, I learned that the definition of [technology] depends on how an individual defines it to be. Additionally, I learned that tech use for pain management is very individualized to the person.