Diagnosis & Treatment for The Complicated Pain Patient: Central Sensitization, CRPS, & Debilitating Pain

Course overview

My pain is a 12 out of 10 and just thinking about moving my hand foot makes my pain go through the roof. I have tried therapy and pain medicine before and nothing helps. I am just here because my doctor told me that I need to come. So, what do you do? Whether your patient has diffuse, debilitating chronic pain, central sensitization, complex regional pain syndrome CRPS or some other form of debilitating pain, you as a PT, OT, or AT know that your treatment approach needs to be different. This course will go over current best practice recommendations around objective diagnosis tests for complicated pain conditions such as those with CRPS including testing for laterality, allodynia, and hyperalgesia. Graded motor imagery treatment principles such as laterality training, motor imagery, and mirror therapy will be presented for complicated pain patients with case studies highlighting clinical reasoning skills that can be applied to the clinic the next day. This course can be taken as a stand alone course or as a companion to the Pain Neuroscience Education PNE Evaluation, PNE Treatment, or Manual Therapy from a Pain Neuroscience education approach courses currently available through Allied Health Education.