Intro to Chronic Pain Management for RMTs (online)
This workshop provides an opportunity to learn how modifications of traditional massage therapy practices can increase success and improve outcomes for people in pain. The workshop aims to improve your confidence and increase your skillset when working with the challenges of persistent pain. We will discuss the science of pain and explore ways to incorporate effective therapeutic pain management approaches into your practice. The course will provide current person-centred best practices to help you support more meaningful outcomes for your clients.
Participants will learn the fundamentals of incorporating a biopsychosocial framework into daily practice behaviour.
Objectives
- Explore current evidence-based frameworks on persistent pain to enhance practice, improve client outcomes, and decrease practitioner stress
- Apply pain science research to outline more effective ways to interact and treat clients with persistent pain
- Understand the importance of forming a therapeutic relationship through contextual effects
- Describe how existing manual and practical skills can be effectively modified to improve client outcomes
- Review current best evidence on pain science, including definitions, epidemiology, and current knowledge of chronic pain
- Explain the impacts of chronic pain on individuals and their unique lived experiences
- Explain the concept of pain self-management, and improve your ability to teach pain self-management
- Analyze case studies to emphasize key points and discuss treatment options
- Identify when a shift from routine treatment is required
