Our 2023 Art Awards theme is “Pain and Social Life”.
The Canadian Pain Society Art Awards were created to engage a broad audience and contribute to knowledge mobilization and develop new tools for teaching and communicating about pain and its impact on social life. With a new theme each year, we showcase the variety of artwork presented by clinicians, scientists, educators, artists, and people living with pain.
Celebrating the Beauty and Power of Art
2023 Submissions
Showcasing a variety of artworks presented by clinicians, scientists, educators, and people who live with pain.
This year, we are delighted to accept submissions from CPS members as well as from the public-at-large. You are eligible to submit your work until March 31, 2023. Check back for more information regarding voting for our 2023 winner.
Constellations of chronic pain and depression research: A network visualisation
Abhimanyu Sud
Trainee/research Category
Description of the Techniques: Created using Gephi 0.9.2 for generating the network, Adobe Illustrator for labelling pain and intervention types, and Microsoft Office PowerPoint for outputting in video format.
People living with chronic pain often experience depression, but understanding and treating these two conditions together can be very difficult.To get a better idea of which treatments might improve depression for people with chronic pain, systematic reviews have been conducted to compile results from multiple clinical trials. These reviews usually focus on one type of chronic pain or a certain kind of treatment. An umbrella review then compiles the results from multiple systematic reviews, to get the broadest possible picture. An umbrella review can tell us what kinds of treatments have been studied for the effects on depression, and for what kinds of chronic pain conditions. This network visualization shows a constellation of 83 systematic reviews (grey dots), and the 459 clinical trials that they synthesise (blue dots when included by one systematic review; green dots when included by more than one). Looking at the network of systematic reviews and clinical trials, we identified groups based on types of treatments (labels and outlines) and kinds of chronic pain conditions (coloured clouds). This network visualization provides a big picture view of research on depression and chronic pain, and the gaps that are worth investigating in future studies and reviews.
Constellations of chronic pain and depression research: A network visualisation
Abhimanyu Sud
Trainee/research Category
Description of the Techniques: Created using Gephi 0.9.2 for generating the network, Adobe Illustrator for labelling pain and intervention types, and Microsoft Office PowerPoint for outputting in video format.
People living with chronic pain often experience depression, but understanding and treating these two conditions together can be very difficult.To get a better idea of which treatments might improve depression for people with chronic pain, systematic reviews have been conducted to compile results from multiple clinical trials. These reviews usually focus on one type of chronic pain or a certain kind of treatment. An umbrella review then compiles the results from multiple systematic reviews, to get the broadest possible picture. An umbrella review can tell us what kinds of treatments have been studied for the effects on depression, and for what kinds of chronic pain conditions. This network visualization shows a constellation of 83 systematic reviews (grey dots), and the 459 clinical trials that they synthesise (blue dots when included by one systematic review; green dots when included by more than one). Looking at the network of systematic reviews and clinical trials, we identified groups based on types of treatments (labels and outlines) and kinds of chronic pain conditions (coloured clouds). This network visualization provides a big picture view of research on depression and chronic pain, and the gaps that are worth investigating in future studies and reviews.
Constellations of chronic pain and depression research: A network visualisation
Abhimanyu Sud
Trainee/research Category
Description of the Techniques: Created using Gephi 0.9.2 for generating the network, Adobe Illustrator for labelling pain and intervention types, and Microsoft Office PowerPoint for outputting in video format.
People living with chronic pain often experience depression, but understanding and treating these two conditions together can be very difficult.To get a better idea of which treatments might improve depression for people with chronic pain, systematic reviews have been conducted to compile results from multiple clinical trials. These reviews usually focus on one type of chronic pain or a certain kind of treatment. An umbrella review then compiles the results from multiple systematic reviews, to get the broadest possible picture. An umbrella review can tell us what kinds of treatments have been studied for the effects on depression, and for what kinds of chronic pain conditions. This network visualization shows a constellation of 83 systematic reviews (grey dots), and the 459 clinical trials that they synthesise (blue dots when included by one systematic review; green dots when included by more than one). Looking at the network of systematic reviews and clinical trials, we identified groups based on types of treatments (labels and outlines) and kinds of chronic pain conditions (coloured clouds). This network visualization provides a big picture view of research on depression and chronic pain, and the gaps that are worth investigating in future studies and reviews.