Kuala Terengganu Pain Workshop Puts Patient Education And Multidisciplinary Care In Focus
The Oct 15-16 ECPAM 2026 programme will cover multidisciplinary approaches to pain management, including paediatric pain, psychological strategies and exercise prescription.
A pain-awareness programme scheduled for Oct. 16 in Kuala Terengganu is bringing patient education, psychological approaches and movement into the same discussion as the East Coast Pain Medicine Workshop reaches its second day.
The two-day ECPAM 2026 programme runs Oct. 15-16 at Primula Hotel under the theme Keep Moving, Keep Living. Hospital Sultanah Nur Zahirah's event notice describes an academic day followed by community education and practical sessions on understanding pain management.
The hospital's published programme lists patient education, paediatric pain, distinctions between myofascial pain and fibromyalgia, psychological strategies and principles of exercise prescription among its subjects.
It also lists speakers from pain medicine, sports medicine, paediatric pain and palliative care, and physiotherapy. Participants are offered the option of attending one day or both, with continuing professional development points available to those who qualify.
The notice sets out the educational programme; it does not report attendance, discussions already completed or patient outcomes from the event. The breadth of the listed topics provides the clearest indication of its intended focus.
Pain Has Several Dimensions
The subject extends beyond identifying a physical injury. In its 2020 revision of the definition of pain, the International Association for the Study of Pain emphasised that pain is a personal experience influenced by biological, psychological and social factors.
The association's accompanying notes also say a person's report of pain should be respected and that an inability to describe it verbally does not mean it is absent. Those principles provide context for why education and communication appear alongside physical and psychological subjects in a pain programme.
They do not mean that every person has the same cause of pain or needs the same approach. Different experiences and circumstances require assessment, and an educational topic should not be mistaken for an individual diagnosis.
Education Within A Wider Care Approach
The World Health Organization's 2023 guideline on chronic primary low back pain considers several classes of non-surgical intervention for adults in primary and community care. These include structured education, physical and psychological interventions, medicines and combinations of approaches.
That guideline has a defined scope: chronic primary low back pain in adults, including older people. It is background for understanding multidisciplinary care, rather than a universal prescription for every pain condition or for children.
The distinction is particularly relevant to a workshop whose agenda includes paediatric issues as well as broader chronic-pain topics. A principle or intervention discussed for one population cannot automatically be applied to another without considering the evidence and clinical circumstances.
For local health professionals and community participants, the programme offers a setting to discuss how people understand pain and how different disciplines contribute to care. The hospital's notice directs prospective participants to the registration information on its event poster.
The immediate news is the scheduled awareness programme and its educational scope. Any assessment of what participants learned or how practice changed will require follow-up evidence after the event, rather than assumptions based on its agenda alone.
