Pain that lingers reshapes how people move through their days
Chronic pain lasting over 3 months significantly impacts quality of life, affecting work, leisure, and daily tasks for many people. Exercise can help manage chronic pain, but treatment must be individualized and grounded in scientific evidence rather than assumptions.
- Workshop scheduled for May 23, 2026
- Chronic pain defined as pain persisting beyond three months
- Event targets health professionals but open to interested public
- Emphasis on evidence-based, individualized treatment approaches
ACIBr's Physical Activities Center hosts a workshop on May 23 exploring chronic pain mechanisms and the role of evidence-based exercise in treatment, featuring experts in neuroscience and physiotherapy.
On May 23rd, the Physical Activities Center at ACIBr is hosting a workshop designed to untangle one of modern medicine's most persistent puzzles: why some pain lingers long after the initial injury has healed. The event, titled "Pain: How It Starts and Why Some Never Goes Away?", emerged from a practical problem that health professionals face every day—patients describing pain that doesn't fit neatly into textbooks, and practitioners struggling to understand what they're hearing.
Tiago Batschauer, a physiotherapist with training in biology and a master's degree in neuroscience, frames chronic pain as one of the defining health challenges of our time. When pain persists beyond three months, he explains, it stops being a simple warning signal and becomes something far more complex. It seeps into work, erodes leisure time, and makes ordinary tasks—getting dressed, climbing stairs, sitting through a meal—feel like negotiations with the body. The impact isn't just physical; it reshapes how people move through their days.
What makes Batschauer's perspective distinctive is his insistence on evidence. Exercise can genuinely help manage chronic pain, he says, but only when the approach is tailored to the individual and grounded in actual science rather than assumption or intuition. This distinction matters enormously. A treatment that works for one person's pain may worsen another's. The mechanism matters. The person matters.
Caroline Comandolli Maffezzolli, who coordinates the center's activities, describes the workshop as a response to a gap in professional understanding. Many health workers—physical therapists, doctors, psychologists—encounter patients whose pain complaints don't align with what they expect to see. The disconnect creates frustration on both sides. The workshop aims to build a bridge, giving professionals a clearer framework for understanding what patients are actually experiencing and why.
The event is designed primarily for people working in health fields: physical educators, physiotherapists, physicians, psychologists, and nutritionists. But the organizers have left the door open to anyone genuinely interested in the subject. That choice reflects a recognition that chronic pain isn't a problem confined to clinical settings—it's woven through communities, families, workplaces. Understanding it better serves everyone.
The timing of this workshop points to a broader shift in how medicine approaches persistent pain. For decades, the field operated on a relatively simple model: find the damage, fix the damage, pain resolves. But chronic pain often persists even when imaging shows no obvious injury, or it emerges long after healing should have occurred. That gap between what scans reveal and what patients feel has forced a reckoning. The nervous system itself, the brain's role in processing and amplifying pain signals, the way movement patterns and fear can lock pain in place—these have become central to understanding why some people recover and others remain stuck.
May 23rd's workshop is a small event in a specific city, but it reflects a larger professional awakening. Health workers are recognizing that they need better tools for listening, better frameworks for understanding, and better grounding in the science of how pain actually works. That shift, from assumption to evidence, from one-size-fits-all to individualized care, is where real change begins.
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Exercise can help manage chronic pain, but treatment must be individualized and grounded in scientific evidence rather than assumptions— Tiago Batschauer, physiotherapist and neuroscience specialist
Many health professionals struggle to understand the pain complaints patients describe, and the workshop aims to bridge that gap in daily care— Caroline Comandolli Maffezzolli, coordinator of ACIBr's Physical Activities Center
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Why does chronic pain matter so much right now? It's not new.
It's new in how we understand it. For years, doctors treated pain as a simple signal—fix the injury, pain stops. But millions of people have pain that won't go away even after healing. That gap forced medicine to look deeper, at the nervous system, at how the brain processes pain. Now we're realizing it's far more complex.
So the workshop is really about teaching professionals to think differently?
Exactly. A patient comes in saying their shoulder hurts, but the scan looks fine. A doctor trained in the old model gets frustrated. A doctor trained in modern pain science asks different questions: How long has this been happening? What makes it better or worse? What's the person afraid of? Those questions change everything.
The source mentions exercise helps, but only if it's individualized. Why can't there be a standard protocol?
Because pain is personal in ways that most medical problems aren't. Two people with identical imaging might respond completely differently to the same exercise. One person needs gentle movement to rebuild confidence in their body. Another needs challenging work to prove the pain isn't a sign of danger. You have to know the person.
What happens if a professional doesn't understand this?
They might push a patient too hard, triggering fear and making pain worse. Or they might be too cautious, reinforcing the idea that the body is fragile. Either way, the patient doesn't improve. The workshop is trying to prevent that—to give professionals a real framework instead of guessing.
Is this just for specialists, or does it matter to regular people?
It matters to everyone. Chronic pain affects how you work, how you rest, how you relate to your own body. If the people treating you understand what's actually happening, your chances of recovery improve dramatically. That's why they opened it to the public.