Press Releases 2011

Grünenthal dedicated to improving pain management
Making a difference with CHANGE PAIN^®
Effective support for healthcare professionals starts off its 4th year

Aachen/Brussels, December 21^st 2011. "No time to rest in 2012" was one of the conclusions of the 6th CHANGE PAIN^® Advisory Board meeting. The Board identified "Pain in the Elderly" as the next topic to be tackled by the initiative. Treating the elderly differs from treating younger patients as there are many physiological changes which have to be taken into account. The Advisory Board meeting took place in Munich early December with the goal of identifying challenges and shortcomings in pain therapy which need to be addressed in future.

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7th Congress of the European Federation of IASP^® Chapters (EFIC^®)
September 21st – 24th, 2011, Hamburg, Germany

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Effective Management of chronic pain requires a multidisciplinary team approach
Central topic discussed at the 5thCHANGE PAIN® Advisory Board

Aachen/Brussels, 26 August 2011. The social burden of pain is considerable: One in five of the European adult population experienced pain in the previous month and almost two of them reported daily moderate or severe pain. It seriously affects patients’ quality of life and leads to high utilisation of healthcare resources and to lower work productivity. This was shown in a recent publication which analysed data of the National Health and Wellness Survey (NHWS) supported by the CHANGE PAIN® Initiative. CHANGE PAIN® – a pan-European initiative launched by the German pain expert Grünenthal and endorsed by the European Federation of IASP© Chapters (EFIC) – aims to enhance the understanding of the needs of patients with severe chronic pain and to develop solutions to improve pain management. At the 5th meeting of the CHANGE PAIN® Advisory Board, a major topic was how a multidisciplinary approach to pain management could improve patients’ outcomes.

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