Sensory-Motor Dysregulation - An Effective Target for Persistent Pain

Course overview

This asynchronous online course is designed for physical therapists and rehabilitation professionals who treat people with persistent pain. This online course is designed to build awareness and a toolkit for addressing sensory-motor dysregulation, also known as "smudging" of the sensory-motor cortex. Exercise prescription is an evidence-based approach to persistent pain. However, many clinicians find that pain often improves with exercise, but that exercise doesn't resolve the pain.What if exercise programs could be targeted to the phenotype of pain that the person in front of you is presenting with? Learn how to phenotype persistent pain using a broad-based biopsychosocial approach utilizing exercise that is directed at a variety of characteristics that we see in our persistent pain population. This course will focus on a major component of persistent pain documented in the literature, namely sensory-motor dysregulation.