{"id":125,"date":"2010-05-24T14:31:16","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T13:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/?page_id=125"},"modified":"2010-05-24T14:31:16","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T13:31:16","slug":"bcpr","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/bcpr\/","title":{"rendered":"BCPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a title=\"BCPR\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bath.ac.uk\/health\/pain\" target=\"_blank\">Bath Centre for Pain Research (BCPR) <\/a>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 <a title=\"Prof Christopher Eccleston\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bath.ac.uk\/health\/pain\/Eccleston.html\" target=\"_blank\">Professor Chris Eccleston <\/a>and his team.<\/p>\n<p>The BCPR principal investigators are at the forefront of their fields and are pioneering developments in a number of important research areas, such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The causes of persistent pain and disability<\/li>\n<li>The impact of pain on children and families<\/li>\n<li>Optimizing methods of assessment and treatment<\/li>\n<li>Evidence based pain management<\/li>\n<li>Novel methods of analgesia and analgesic behaviour<\/li>\n<li>Pain on locomotion, and sensory integration<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the last five years,\u00a0the BCPR\u00a0has 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BCPR\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bath.ac.uk\/health\/pain\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-146\" src=\"http:\/\/bathblogs.wpengine.com\/healthresearch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2010\/05\/pain-logo-300x79.png\" alt=\"pain logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"79\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2010\/05\/pain-logo-300x79.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2010\/05\/pain-logo.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-125","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}