Enrique Velasco
Enrique Velasco
Quique holds a degree in Physiotherapy and a PhD cum laude in Neuroscience from the Miguel Hernández University. He is currently a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Catholic University of Leuven and co-director of the independent research group Neuroscience in Physiotherapy. Trained mainly as an electrophysiologist, his career encompasses the study of the fundamental mechanisms of neuronal excitability, pain and its clinical translation in the form of new therapeutic approaches. In addition to his research work, he teaches neurophysiology at several universities and postgraduate degrees and is active in the field of pain research.
SUMMARY PAPER
Last year marked 40 years since the first scientific paper was published referring to central sensitisation as a pain mechanism. Since then, research in this field has only increased and, at the same time, knowledge about this phenomenon has changed the way we approach the treatment of pain patients. This paradigm shift has been brought about by the work of teachers, scientists and pain educators. However, it has been accompanied by the emergence of a number of beliefs, such as that chronic pain is caused by central sensitisation, especially non-disciplinary pain. These beliefs have become firmly established in the minds of clinicians and clinical researchers, and have repercussions both in consultation and in scientific articles. But: Are they supported by scientific evidence? How have these beliefs been generated? What do we know today about central sensitisation? What is the cause of non-disciplastic pain? During this talk we will delve into these questions, to try, between all of us, to put us right on the edge of the abyss that separates the little we know, from the immensity of what remains to be known.
VI International Congress of Physiotherapy and Pain 2024.
