Pain Concepts for Practice: Occupational therapists

Enrolments open again for this online course with THREE live Zoom discussions! This course is specifically developed for occupational therapists and gives you: an overview of the THREE groups of pain mechanisms and a way through the neurobiology maze what pain mechanisms mean when working with people experiencing pain the weird and uncertain influence of pain on daily life pain behaviours and how these can get in the way of doing what matters to a person pain assessments and what they mean sensory approaches for people living with pain graded desensitising and graded exposure – how they are not the same, and why we might use them occupational therapy’s unique contribution to pain rehabilitation and management (psst, it’s not what we do, it’s where we do it!) The live Zoom sessions are scheduled for: 10 June 10.00 – 12.00 NZ time 8 July 10.00 – 12.00 NZ time 5 August 10.00 – 12.00 NZ time Along with the learning materials, you also join the Occupational Therapy Community where you can talk with other occupational therapists working with people experiencing pain. And every now and then I run FREE online meetings where we can talk about subjects near and dear to our practice! Click the link to register: click
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs