Description
Chronic pain represents a biopsychosocial problem, with maladaptive changes in the mind, body and brain. Besides exercise therapy7 and physical activity interventions2, education6 stays a corner stone of the therapy. Although the clinical benefits of education in chronic pain populations are well established, clinicians experience difficulties applying this during their treatments.Patients who are misinformed about pain, consider pain to be more threatening, present lower pain tolerance, have more catastrophic thoughts and less adaptive coping strategies, resulting in worse treatment outcomes (Jackson et al., 2005). The latter can be captured by Pain Neuroscience Education, which helps patients to understand their pain and teach them a way to function with pain during their daily life (Nijs et al., 2017). Pain neuroscience education explains the normal and abnormal pain mechanism and the influence of cancer treatment, stress and emotions on their pain experience. It is effective in decreasing pain intensity, pain catastrophizing and increasing quality of life in several populations with chronic pain, such as chronic low back pain, osteoarthritis and chronic whiplash associated disorders (Louw et al., 2016; Meeus et al., 2010; Moseley et al., 2004; Van Oosterwijck et al., 2011)
One of the reasons why clinicians experience difficulties in applying evidence in practice is that they experience various barriers (unpublished data). During this course we will learn the participants in detecting which patient can be helped with pain neuroscience education, next we will train them in applying pain education with practical exercises. We will tackle the barriers by challenging the beliefs and cognitions of our participants and providing them with case examples. Finally
Specific patient groups demand pathology tailored education.
General pain neuroscience education needs to be adapted when it is used in the treatment of patients before or after surgery, or patients with cancer related pain. These changes are nothing compared with the complete change in approach if a child with chronic pain is the patient. In this second part of this course, participants will learn how they can match the principles of pain neuroscience education with the practical use for these specific patient groups. This will enable the participants to largen there scope and be able to apply the learned techniques in various situations.
| Periode | 30 mei 2019 |
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| Gehouden op | Pijn in Beweging |
| Mate van erkenning | International |