The aims of the Pain Relief Care network are to provide support to non-invasive pain management specialist, facilitate communication, encourage exchange of information and ideas, foster collaborative research, develop educational material of the highest standard to support the teaching of pain at pre-qualifying level, increase awareness of worldwide issues in the understanding, assessment and management of pain and the impact suboptimal pain management has upon society, encourage the development of physiotherapy in the field of chronic pain – prevention, interventions, and research, organise relevant conferences and educational activities, provide physiotherapists with greater knowledge in the neurophysiology of pain in order to better understand the mechanisms underlying a person’s pain, promote the non invasive methodology of people-centered care.

The network also sees collaborative networking with likeminded, credible, and appropriate professional and multi-professional organizations as vital for the development of better pain understanding worldwide.