Pain Science Strategies Moving Beyond Pain Toward a More Fulfilling Lifestyle

Course overview

What would it be like to be able to motivate people with persistent pain to engage in more meaningful activities for a higher quality of life beyond the limitations imposed by pain? Help your patients break out of pain cycles that prevent them from embracing a higher quality of life. Discover how chronic pain traps people in a downward spiral of fear avoidance behaviors, health provider shopping, endless pill popping, disability, isolation and depression. Uncover how the traditional medical model of treating only physical symptoms without addressing underlying biopsychosocial issues fails to provide lasting change in cases of chronic pain. Adopt transformational interventions into your current rehab plans to endorse positive coping mechanisms that build resilience for optimal pain management with less deleterious side effects. Develop strategies to impact pain perception in a novel way using an educational approach that embraces neuroplasticity to encourage people to move beyond the hurt and fear. Enhance your patients knowledge of how pain works. Gather multiple tips and tricks to mitigate pain intensity and disability, improve mood, anxiety and sleep, and promote performance. Provide tools to boost participation in meaningful activities from ADL to work and recreation for measurable outcomes and more smiles in life!