About the Journal

Pain and Rehabilitation is a peer-reviewed, multimedia, open-access journal published in collaboration with the Physiotherapy Pain Association.  The purpose of this journal is to share original research, service evaluation, review and protocol articles that contribute to improving the understanding of people with pain and associated care and rehabilitation. Our mission is to encourage dialogue among rehabilitation professionals, patients, families, caregivers, and policymakers about our understanding of pain, how we design services and care for people with pain.  

In that spirit, Pain and Rehabilitation publishes work that reflects and analyses any topic associated with our purpose. We publish work in several genres, including perspectives pieces, personal narratives, reflections, poetry, video or photo essays, or original research articles.  We are also looking for reviews of films or books that may be relevant to this topic, or a personal blog/reflection that describes an interaction and provides a learning experience associated with understanding pain or the care for those living with pain. Accordingly, clinicians, researchers, students, patients, caregivers, healthcare professionals and administrators are all challenged to submit creative works to Pain and Rehabilitation.

Members of the editorial board oversee a rigorous peer review process and help to set standards that ensure the quality of the journal. Pain and Rehabilitation employs a double-blind peer review process for all articles. All articles are immediately assigned to an issue upon acceptance without having to wait in press. This means immediate publication for all authors upon completion of the post-acceptance publishing processes.

In addition, Pain and Rehabilitation uses the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) as a resource for maintaining journalistic integrity. Authors retain copyright of the content they produce with limited rights granted to Pain and Rehabilitation. Pain and Rehabilitation is freely available to individuals and institutions.