Chronic Pain & Pain Neuroscience Education for the PT, OT, & AT: Treatment

Course overview

This course is designed as a companion course to Chronic Pain & pain Neuroscience Education for the PT, OT, & AT: The Evaluation although it can also be taken as a stand alone course. As a PT, OT or AT, you've finished your evaluation of a patient with chronic pain and know that your patient will require a different treatment approach that what you normally use for acute pain. The question is what do you do? This webinar is designed to give step by step instructions on strategies to better treat patients with chronic pain that can be transferred to the busy clinic schedule the next day. Pain Neuroscience Education (PNE) refers to educational sessions designed to help patients better understand the physiology of pain at the nervous system level. This course will discuss both specific PNE metaphors to use with patients as well as the structure of a follow-up treatment session (the role of manual therapy, exercise, modalities, etc.) Patient handouts will be provided that can easily be used the next day in the clinic on both functional goal setting and sleep hygiene. Handouts will be designed to encourage patients to take an active role in their own treatment plan.