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Pain BC

Chronic Pain Management for RMT’s – Surrey

Approved for 7 PE hours by the CMTBC

This course is currently sold out.  It will be offered twice more this year in Sept and October.

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

This one day, in-person course will provide knowledge and practical skills for working with clients in persistent pain. The course provides the opportunity to learn how modifications of traditional manual therapy practices can increase success and improve outcomes for people in pain. It aims to decrease practitioner stress and provide confidence when working with chronic pain clients. We will thoroughly discuss the science of pain and how to incorporate effective therapeutic pain management approaches into daily practice. The course will challenge many misconceptions about pain as we learn the basics of incorporating a biopsychosocial framework between clinician and patient into daily practice behaviour.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Health care professionals interested in developing or enhancing sound clinical skills in the assessment and treatment of clients living with complex and persistent pain.

DELIVERY

Learning activities will consist of lecture, case study, PowerPoint presentation, demonstrations, video clips, experiential exercises, and discussion.

LEARNING OUTCOME

Practitioners taking this course will improve their:

  • Understanding of major therapeutic approaches to chronic pain management
  • Understanding of new evidence-based frameworks on chronic pain to enhance their practice, improve patient outcomes, and decrease practitioner stress
  • Ability to identify the person requiring a shift from routine treatment
  • Understanding of how existing manual and practical skills can be effectively modified to improve patient outcomes
  • Knowledge of current best evidence pain science, including definitions, epidemiology, and current theories of chronic pain
  • Understanding of the impacts of chronic pain
  • Ability to develop rapport and work effectively with chronic pain patients.

PROGRAM OBJECTIVES

Additional course objectives are to:

  • Increase the practitioner’s understanding of pain self-management and to improve their ability to teach pain self-management to their clients.
  • Utilize pain science research to outline more effective ways to interact and treat patients with chronic pain.
  • Use case studies to emphasize key points and discuss treatment options.

Date

May 31 2020
Expired!

Time

All Day

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Website
https://painbc.ca
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