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10 informative hours of on-demand continuing education!
How does chronic pain begin?
What should you do differently with chronic pain patients?
How many types of chronic pain are there and how does this affect your diagnosis and the provision of chiropractic care?
Approximately 20-25% of the North American population suffers from chronic pain. Chronic pain poses a significant healthcare burden, utilizing billions of healthcare dollars every year. Allied healthcare professionals (including chiropractors) are now being called upon to help manage chronic pain, in an effort to ease the burden on our healthcare systems. Allied healthcare providers often find managing chronic pain in clinical practice onerous, draining, and frustrating, as these patients may not respond to treatment in an expected fashion. The goal of this course is to improve clinicians’ clinical skills in the diagnosis and management of patients with chronic pain. Clinicians will be empowered with necessary tools to assess and develop treatment plans for chronic pain patients that can be immediately applied in clinical practice.
Topics include:
What
is pain and what do we know about it?
Treatment
of the whole person
History
and physical examination considerations for chronic pain
Sensory
examination overview and interpretation
Summary of chronic pain phenotypes:
1) Nociceptive
2) Inflammatory
3) Peripheral Neuropathic
4) Nociplastic
5) Psycho-Emotional
In this E-Seminar, Dr. Assimakopoulos will bring you up to date on contemporary pain science, provide practical tools and advice and illuminate ‘Monday morning’ best practices to enhance your patient care for chronic pain!
This informative, on-demand E-Seminar features interactive quizzes and case vignettes to sharpen your clinical and diagnostic thought-processes!
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
1) Discuss, understand, and apply a comprehensive evidence-based guide for the assessment, prognosis, and rehabilitation of chronic pain
2) Use standard pain assessments in relation to clinical case studies
3) Discuss, understand, and apply phenotyping of chronic pain, based on a synthesis of the current evidence
4) Understand, describe, and apply the various chronic pain mechanisms
5) Acknowledge the role other health care providers play in a supporting you and your chronic
PRICE: $499