Pain course
Enhance your career with this intensive 2-day course.
This course can be taken by itself or as part of the 4-week Certificate in Orthopaedic Musculoskeletal Therapy (COMT), which provides clinicians with intensive tuition in an integrated and thoroughly modern, evidence-based approach in the assessment and management of disorders of the spine, pelvis, upper and lower limbs.
Manual Concepts offers this course exclusively in Australia.
The science of pain
It is now well recognised that pain intensity does not correlate well with the extent or seriousness of pathology, and that wide variation exists in the response to identical noxious/nociceptive input and to the provision of identical therapies and that susceptibility to develop certain painful disorders is also variable.
This means that we need to think much more broadly about pain than it simply being a consequence of presenting pathology and rather, consider ALL possible contributing factors in ANY pain state, regardless of whether it is acute or persistent. Many of the reasons for this variability are understood and the aims of this module on the COMT course are to demonstrate:
- The extraordinary complexity of pain and how to assess all aspects of this complexity, including baseline characteristics (modulators) that can influence pain outcomes, as well as the (often modifiable) factors that can mediate the relationship between an individual’s modulators and their outcome
- How to break this complexity down to the components of relevance so as then to more readily be able to provide strategies that more comprehensively and effectively manage somebody’s pain
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