Contact
Lincoln College of Postprofessional, Graduate and Continuing Education
Phone: 630-889-6622
Email: postgrad@nuhs.edu
Fees
Please note the following fees and their deadlines:
PRACTITIONERS
$250 with registration before March 20th
$275 with registration after March 20th
$300 at the door
STUDENTS
$175 before March 20th
$200 after March 20th
$225 at the door
CE hours approved in IL, MI, IN, WI & IA. Please inquire about additional states / provinces.
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**Please note that this class will be recorded for later use as online continuing education. A media release waiver will be presented to registrants at the begining of the course.**
Know Pain, Know Gain:
Explaining Pain Concepts to Minimize Chronic Pain
Dates: March 29, 2015
Times: Sunday 8:00AM - 7:00PM
Location: NUHS Campus / Lombard, IL
Instructor: Ryan Van Matre, DC, MS
Hours: 10.0
Program Description
This program will offer an exciting and cutting-edge model of clinical reasoning and intervention to reduce pain sensitivity by educating patients to pain mechanisms. While the term, "It's all in your head" has for years been offensive to patients, by taking the time to explain pain mechanisms and offering graded exposure to threat, patients are able to re-conceptualize their pain, decrease threat sensitivities and improve daily function.
Topics
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Understanding the Bio-psycho-social model
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Diagnostic triage
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Yellow Flags, what they are and what they are not
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Report of findings, different treatment strategies for differing patients
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Establishing SMART goals
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Stepped approach to care
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Motivation / compliance issues
Course Objectives
Upon successful completion of this program, the student will be able to:
- Understand the bio-psych-social model and how it integrates to their practice
- Be able to understand and evaluate for red and yellow flags to differentiate those who need stepped approach to care
- Be able to determine those who need psychiatric consultation for pain management
- Be able to facilitate conversations to identify patients' limitations and goals
- Be able to teach self-tx strategies to minimize passive care dependencies
- How to handle fear-avoidance beliefs and the occurrence of flare ups
- Graded exposure, pacing mirror box therapy and graded motor imagery to desensitize chronic pain syndromes
- Changing vocabulary and handling acute pain effectively to reduce the risk of chronic pain development
Format
The program content will be presented in lecture format with some laboratory workshop.
Outline
Hour 1: Understanding the BPS model. Why the need? Current state of pain management
Hours 2-3: Diagnostic Triage, Red Flag identification. Screening & assessment of yellow flags and the role of clinician verbiage to describe such variables
Hour 4: Review of the basic functional screens to determine a baseline of functional restoration. Squat, McGill lumbar shear test, ASLR, Respiration, T-4 extension, one-legged balance, Vele's test. Verbiage of shifting from pain to that of function
Hour 5: Putting it together, creating a patient profile
Hour 6: SMART goals. Stepping the approach to care, creating success to allow small, incremental achievement in function
Hour 7: Mirror-box therapy for RSD / Complex regional pain, workshop
Hour 8: Graded Motor Imagery for chronic limb pain, workshop
Hour 9: Case-study workups, decision points to care
Hour 10: Putting it all together, group workshop and class presentations
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