World Institute of Pain
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WIP - World Institute of Pain was founded in 1994 as organization to better educate pain physicians for the 21st century.

WIP is a large organization for specialist physicians involved in pain
Pain
Pain is an unpleasant sensation often caused by intense or damaging stimuli such as stubbing a toe, burning a finger, putting iodine on a cut, and bumping the "funny bone."...

 treatment.

The organization's Fifth world congress was held on March 13-16, 2009 in New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

. This congress had interventional pain treatments such as pulsed radiofrequency
Pulsed radiofrequency
Pulsed radiofrequency is the technique where by radio frequency oscillations are gated at a rate of pulses per second . Radio frequency energies occupy 1.0 X 104Hz to 3.0 X 1011HZ of the electromagnetic spectrum...

 and many others as its main focus. WIP's 6th World Congress will be held in Seoul, South Korea, April 29-May 1, 2011 and is expected to attract 2500 international participants for a comprehensive program representing the very latest evidence-based and best-practice based pain medicine in all disciplines.
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