BCPR

The Bath Centre for Pain Research (BCPR) is an international and interdisciplinary centre aimed at discovery, innovation, and technology development for the control of pain, and the amelioration of pain-related suffering, led by Professor Chris Eccleston and his team.

The BCPR principal investigators are at the forefront of their fields and are pioneering developments in a number of important research areas, such as:

• The causes of persistent pain and disability
• The impact of pain on children and families
• Optimizing methods of assessment and treatment
• Evidence based pain management
• Novel methods of analgesia and analgesic behaviour
• Pain on locomotion, and sensory integration

In the last five years, the BCPR has created novel treatments for children with persistent pain, and has been a key part of a global campaign of awareness raising about childhood pain and suffering. Understanding childhood pain and suffering remains a major focus of the centre's research.

A recent growth area is also in the use of technology to assist in living with chronic pain. Assistive Technology (AT) is a major new area of development for the BCPR: making use of technological advancements to find ways of bringing treatments to people with pain is a core challenge of the centre.