Rethinking Pain Education

Online Course

Learn how to teach your patient about their pain

8-8.5 hours

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Kristine is a physiotherapist who focuses on exercise-based treatment and education for injury prevention, overuse injuries and chronic pain

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Introduction

Chronic pain is increasing globally with 10-20% of the population reporting chronic or recurrent pain. However, chronic pain is often very difficult to treat. Given the rise in diagnostic imaging and rapidly evolving treatment options, it is worth considering why the number of individuals reporting chronic pain is increasing. In this course, we discuss pain science and offer practical strategies to use when teaching patients about pain, as well as advice to help them devise effective exercise programmes. With chronic pain on the increase, it is time to re-think pain education.

Aims

This course aims to provide you with an understanding of pain science and to offer strategies to enhance your management of patients who have chronic or recurrent pain.

Outline

This course is made up of videos, reading, forum posts and a final quiz. The course content is split into the following sections:

Applied Pain Science and Challenging Biomedical Thinking
Teaching Postural Efficiency and Stabilisation
Tissue Healing and Remodelling
Understanding the Relationship between Pain and Injury
Sensitisation of the Nervous System and Graded Exposure

Target audience

This course is aimed at Physiotherapy and Physical Therapy clinicians, students and assistants. Other interested professionals such as athletic trainers, occupational therapists, nurses or medical doctors interested in this subject are also invited to participate.

Practicalities

Availability - this course is online and can be completed on your own schedule.

Hours of Learning - No deadlines are applied to this course and it can be started and completed in your own time according to your personal schedule. We expect the required elements to take around 8-8.5 hours depending on your schedule and learning style. Additionally there are many optional resources provided and if you choose to review these the course could take longer to complete.

Types of Activities - Watching videos, reading, a final quiz and participating in an international discussion forum.

Certificates - At the end of the course, when you have completed all of the required elements, you will be able to download a certificate of completion and 8.1 Plus points will be added to your personalised learning dashboard.

Requirements to complete this course

In order to complete this course and receive a course completion certificate plus CEUs/CCUs/CPD points you will need to:

Respect the Plus Community Culture.
Log all the required learning activities as complete (represented by the orange icons!).
Actively and appropriately participate in the course discussions.
Pass a final quiz with a score of 80% or more.
Complete a course evaluation form.

Learning outcomes

At the end of this course you will be able to:

discuss the impact of beliefs and expectations on recovery from chronic pain conditions
identify the two key predictors of disability in relation to chronic pain mentioned in this course
choose appropriate methods of explaining pain to a patient that challenges the way s/he perceives his/her injury
justify the use of pain education in clinical practice as an intervention for chronic pain
design an appropriate exercise intervention to aid in the treatment of chronic pain

Instructor financial and non-financial disclosures

No relevant relationships disclosed by instructor.

Accessibility

For special needs or accommodations please contact us with details of how we can meet your needs.

Featured reviews

This course is eye-opening! Kristine did an excellent job of simplifying complex concepts. It is a very good resource for improving patient education.

Kundai Dube

Physiotherapist

United Kingdom

This course was informative and a game-changer in understanding pain, especially chronic pain. It emphasises the biopsychosocial aspect of pain.

NAMRATA SHARMA

Physiotherapist

Australia

This course is simple and effective, with solid evidence to break the traditional thinking of understanding pain.

Karma Phuentsho

Physiotherapist

Bhutan

It is an up-to-date, informative, holistic course on the biopsychosocial model of chronic pain and the most effective treatment approach for physiotherapists. Very useful for clinical practice!

Sheila O'Neill

Physiotherapist

Ireland

It is an excellent course for refreshing tissue healing physiology and applying this to client education. It gives vast evidence to reason why a biopsychosocial model should be used when assessing and treating clients with any acute or chronic pain.

Katherine Kane

Physiotherapist

South Africa

This course is the foundation of new knowledge that will revolutionize and transform the future of physiotherapy worldwide. We must rethink our clinical practices because the mere belief that such and such a pathology or physiological problem is incurable blocks the healing of our patients to at least 50 %. Therefore, I invite all physiotherapists who read this message to take this course to obtain the basic knowledge that will shape their new vision of a more effective clinical practice.

Joseph Jean Alain FOTSO

Physiotherapist

Cameroon

This course information is more applicable to daily life in the clinic than the information I have learned at any course taken in years.

Chelsea Lorenson

Physical Therapist

United States

What a great course! It changed my perspective on chronic pain!

Mariné Böhmer

Physiotherapist

South Africa

Great course building on the basic knowledge after being a student. Clinically relevant.

donna reynolds

Physiotherapist

United Kingdom

Thank you for making me learn about pain and its science. I found the course very interesting. Reading about the science of pain makes you inquire about it more. Course well explained!

Maheen khan

Physiotherapist

Pakistan

Amazing listening and youtube videos were used and shared in this course. Definitely, a must for any physio to listen to Kristen Lew's explanations on pain education. She knows what she is talking about and I enjoyed listening to her a lot!

Maureen Jordaan

Physiotherapist

South Africa

Excellent course with very appropriate information and examples that can be easily utilised in a clinical setting

Kevin Murray

Physiotherapist

Cayman Islands

This new world of training and explaining pain is very insightful to treating patients in a holistic manner- which deviates away from the traditional training we received as students which was very much focused on the biomedical model.

Susan Bekker

Physiotherapist

South Africa

This course is valuable to Physiotherapists working with patients presenting with chronic pain and MSK conditions. I found the content useful and well explained with a good selection of videos that help you to understand each section. I have learned some useful strategies to use with patients and have a good understanding of the mechanisms of pain, biopsychosocial models and the importance of encouraging movement and postural stability. The presenter Kristine Lew explains the concepts of pain and education really well that people will be able to apply to their practice.

Amanda Hall

Physiotherapist

United Kingdom

Quick and efficient recap of pain education!

Emilie Torsvik

Physiotherapist

Netherlands