ABI Pain Conference – Foreword

In advance of the Fieldfisher Pain Conference this coming Thursday.  I would like to take this opportunity to thank our distinguished speakers for being so willing to share their knowledge with us, and ABI solutions for masterminding the day.  I would also like apologise to those delegates that might have been accused of sneaking off to the cinema instead of to a serious Conference. What is pain? A familiar but deceptively simple term.  It is a symptom; an experience; an emotion;  a sensation;  a disease.  It is associated with physical, psychological, social and even economic factors but no definition can encapsulate the many nuances of this complex phenomenon.  The impact of pain or chronic pain on people’s lives is an intensely subjective experience.  It can range …