VTP: Taming Pain, a Virtual Seminar

Taming Pain: Lessons from the Trenches, a Virtual Seminar
Offered by Cheryl Wardlaw, PT, MMSc, CFMT and IPA

Cost: 
Therapists $450 (PTs, SPTs, PTAs, OTs)  Includes the Taming Pain PDF book and CEUs in NY, IL, CA
Patients and other Profressionals $150 (Does NOT include the Taming Pain PDF book)

COURSE DESCRIPTION

What are your strategies for management of patients whose pain in not resolved with advanced manual therapy interventions?  

Do you have the knowledge to recognize the signs and symptoms of inflammatory pain symptoms of inflammatory pain symptoms verses mechanical? 

This lecture course is designed to help clinicians and their patients understand the complex, interactive nature of on-going pain. The participants will learn how each of the body’s systems contributes to the Pain Experience. Further, the learners will learn how to determine which systems are relevant to their own pain. Most importantly, the participants will learn self-treatment techniques to begin the journey of control and recovery.

Objectives

By the end of the course, the participant will be able to:

~ differentiate among acute, chronic and sustained pain.

~ explain how the body’s systems interact to successfully progress from injury and acute pain to recovery.

~ explain the role of the Nervous System in the development and perpetuation of chronic pain.

~ develop a treatment plan to rehabilitate the hypersensitivity of the Nervous System present in chronic pain.

~ differentiate which system(s) and factors are involved in the production of a given patient’ sustained pain, including: Immune System, Gastrointestinal System, Endocrine System, Peripheral Nervous System, Fascial System, coccyx, viscera, Lymphatic System, Musculoskeletal System, nutrition, posture

~  develop therapeutic interventions to positively impact the identified system(s)’ role in the patient’s sustained pain.

CEUs approved for PTs only in NY, IL, CA.  Others may apply for CEUs on their own.

14 Contact Hours

Audience:  Healthcare Professionals and Patients are encouraged to attend.

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