Pain and Therapy is an international, open access, peer-reviewed, rapid publication journal dedicated to the publication of high-quality clinical (all phases), observational, real-world, and health outcomes research around the discovery, development, and use of pain therapies and pain-related devices. Studies relating to diagnosis, pharmacoeconomics, public health, quality of life, and patient care, management, and education are also encouraged.
Areas of focus include, but are not limited to, acute pain, cancer pain, chronic pain, headache and migraine, neuropathic pain, opioids, palliative care and pain ethics, pain and related therapies in the perioperative period, as well as rheumatic pain and fibromyalgia.
The journal is of interest to a broad audience of pharmaceutical and healthcare professionals and publishes original research, reviews, case reports, trial protocols, short communications such as commentaries and editorials, and letters. The journal is read by a global audience and receives submissions from around the world. Pain and Therapy will consider all scientifically sound research be it positive, confirmatory or negative data. Submissions are welcomed whether they relate to an international and/or a country-specific audience, something that is crucially important when researchers are trying to target more specific patient populations. This inclusive approach allows the journal to assist in the dissemination of all scientifically and ethically sound research.
USA: Andrea Trescot, The Pain and Headache Center, Wasilla, AK, USA
Europe: Giustino Varrassi, Paolo Procacci Foundation, Roma, Italy
Editorial Board
Sumiyo Umeda, Hokkaido University of Science,Sapporo, Japan
Thomas Kinfe, Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU), Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany
Anesthesia & analgesics
Zeev Kain, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, Irvine, CA, USA
Antonella Paladini, University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy
John Peppin, Marian University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA; John F. Peppin, DO, LLC, Consultant
Joseph Pergolizzi, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA Martina Rekatsina, Whipps Cross Hospital, London, UK
Edward A. Shipton, University of Otago, Christchurch, Christchurch, New Zealand
Omar Viswanath, Valley Anesthesiology and Pain Consultants, Phoenix, AZ, USA; University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, USA; Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE, USA
Michael Zenz, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Analgesic side effects
Carmelo Scarpignato, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
Cancer pain
Augusto Caraceni, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Milan, Italy
Pål Klepstad, St Olavs University Hospital, Norway
Sebastiano Mercadante, La Maddalena Cancer Center, Palermo, Italy
Christine Miaskowski, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
Filomena Puntillo, University of Bari, Italy
Chronic pain
Tatsunori Ikemoto, Aichi Medical University, Aichi, Japan
Gary M. Reisfield, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, USA
Shigeki Yamaguchi, Dokkyo Medical University, Tochigi, Japan
Ethics in pain medicine
Michael Schatman, Schatman-Robinson Pain Psychology Associates, Bellevue, WA, USA
Headache & migraine
David Dodick, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ, USA
Peter Goadsby, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
Paolo Martelletti, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Stephen Silberstein, University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Neuropathic pain
Didier Bouhassira, Hôpital Ambroise Paré, Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Alexey Danilov, Sechenov University, Moscow, Russia
Andrei Danilov, State Medical University, Moscow, Russia
Jan Keppel Hesselink, Witten/Herdecke University, Witten, Germany
Claudia Sommer, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
Thomas Tölle, Universität München, München, Germany
Panagiotis Zis, Medical School, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Orofacial Pain
Thomas Dietrich, University of Birmingham, UK
Rüdiger Emshoff, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
Osteoarthritic Pain
Roberta Gualtierotti, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
Pain management
Gary Jay, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Srinivas Nalamachu, International Clinical Research Institute, Overland Park, KS, USA
Alaa Abd-Elsayed, University of Wisconsin, WI, USA