New Scandinavian Association for the Study of Pain Information

The goals of the SASP are exclusively educational, scientific and charitable in nature. The aims are:

To connect Scandinavian pain researchers from basic to clinical sciences in a multidisciplinary research network acting in close collaboration with the scientific committees of the national pain societies and IASP® chapters.
To foster and encourage research on pain mechanisms as well as on diagnosis and treatment of clinical pain in order to improve the management of patients with acute and chronic pain.
To promote educational and training in the area of pain research in the Nordic countries.
To inform physicians, other health professionals and general public of the advances in pain research and pain therapy by means of the Scandinavian Journal of Pain and dedicated websites for the membership and general public.
To promote the general objectives and goals of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP®) on the field of pain research.
To research pain mechanisms as well as diagnosis and treatment of clinical pain in order to improve the management of patients with acute and chronic pain.