Mike Stewart: Know Pain

Cursus concept beschrijving: Mike Stewart: Know Pain

Learning Aims:

This course will help you develop a range of engaging, practical skills so that you can help people make sense of pain and overcome it. You will learn ways to apply practical solutions to everyday clinical challenges.

• Help people to feel believed by understanding the relationship between pain, perception & behaviour change without them thinking that it’s “all in their head!”
• Learn ways to combine a biopsychosocial approach with your manual therapy and exercise therapy skills.
• Learn creative ways to help people make sense of pain by using interactive experiments involving taste, touch and hearing!
• Become a better teacher. Guide people who become stuck, empower people who feel hopeless, and engage people who feel bored.
• Optimise patient education by expanding your teaching toolkit & applying educational theories to your practice.
• Develop empathy and build therapeutic connections through an evidence-based awareness of what people in pain want from healthcare professionals.
• Help people to express their experience of living with pain through a range of engaging and empowering communication skills.
• Explore the role of metaphors in healthcare and understand the hidden impact of language on clinical outcomes.
• Integrate practical psychological treatment skills into your rehabilitation by exploring motivational interviewing, cognitive-behavioural therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, mindfulness and cognitive bias modification.
• Explore a variety of patient case studies that give you the opportunity to use what you have learnt before returning to your clinic.