After the cancellation of the International Myopain Society conference that had been scheduled for Padua, Italy in late June, 2023, I decided that I really wanted to hear current researchers and clinicians present and have an opportunity to talk to them more than is usually possible in a large meeting. Therefore, I created this symposium, capped at 35 people, that will meet at the University of Padua, June 16-17, 2023. The meeting is now fully subscribed.

World Congress on Pain

International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP)

Amsterdam, Netherlands

August 5-8, 2020; pre congress Musculoskeletal SIG conference lecture on a possible mouse model for myofascial pain syndrome Aug 4, 2020.

Posters:

1. Segmental sarcomere contraction of skeletal muscle in myalgic and non-myalgic female office workers. (RD Gerwin, B Cagnie, Petrovic M, Van Dorpe, Calders P, De Meulemeester K.)

2. KATP down-regulated channelopathy: is the KATP channel-deficient-mouse a model for myofascial trigger point pain syndrome?

Madrid Spain, Conference on Myofascial Pain

Lecture on a novel approach to myofascial pain, considering a mouse model of Katp ion channelopathy as a model for myofascial trigger point pain that can direct future research into the nature of the trigger point.

Lecture on the nature of myofascial trigger points and the reasons that ionized calcium levels remain high within the affected muscle fiber cells, leading to contracted muscle fibers and ultimately to pain.

Conference Day on Pain

Director of Program: Robert Gerwin, MD

Lecture: Ion Channel Polymorphisms in Myofascial Pain

American Medical Acupuncture Association Annual Convention

April 12-14, 2019

Phoenix, Arizona

Plenary Lecture: Myofascial Pain Syndrome

Workshop (4 hours): Myofascial Pain

World Congress on Pain (IASP) Sept 12-16, Boston, MA. USA

Refresher Course on Fibromyalgia and Myofascial Pain with Robert Gerwin, Maria Adele Giamberardino and William Maixner, Sept 12

Posters by Dr. Gerwin: 1). Proposed Model to explain the genesis of endplate noise in trigger points and its diminution in response to the alpha-adrenergic blocking agent phentolamine. 2). Ion Channel Polymorphism: a new model for the genesis of prolonged contracture of the trigger point taut band.