Advanced clinical pain
This course provides a post graduate learning experience for those who want to develop more advanced skills across the spectrum of pain presentations in clinical practice.
It will provide contemporary understandings regarding pain science and education strategies that link to individuals' learning styles and values.
This course is underpinned by contemporary pain knowledge and scientific evidence of best practice in pain recovery.
Participants will develop clinically applied knowledge and skills that will enhance their understanding of the human pain experience and aims to build confidence in assessing pain, explaining pain and making effective treatment decisions.
The Pain and movement clinical reasoning model (Jones et al 2016) underpins the reflection and decision making process in this course, as documented in the APA Specialisation handbook. There will be opportunity for reflection and review utilizing other clinical reasoning models as advocated by the Level 1 course, Curtin University and University of South Australia.
This course will include strategies to build therapeutic relationships and counselling skills to facilitate individual's motivation to take ownership of their recovery pathway. Interview skills including psychologically informed practice skills, motivational interviewing (introductory) and assessment skills targeting maladaptive behaviours, sensory and perceptual alterations and maladaptive motor patterns will be explored. Introductory management strategies will include behavioural change facilitation, graded motor imagery, sensory, perceptual and motor control training, goal setting, exercise and activity graded exposure. Participants will have opportunity to practice these skills in small groups utilising 2 case studies and if available a demonstration of an assessment and management of a client with a non recovering problem, followed by a breakout groups reflective analysis in a clinical reasoning context.
It will provide contemporary understandings regarding pain science and education strategies that link to individuals' learning styles and values.
This course is underpinned by contemporary pain knowledge and scientific evidence of best practice in pain recovery.
Participants will develop clinically applied knowledge and skills that will enhance their understanding of the human pain experience and aims to build confidence in assessing pain, explaining pain and making effective treatment decisions.
The Pain and movement clinical reasoning model (Jones et al 2016) underpins the reflection and decision making process in this course, as documented in the APA Specialisation handbook. There will be opportunity for reflection and review utilizing other clinical reasoning models as advocated by the Level 1 course, Curtin University and University of South Australia.
This course will include strategies to build therapeutic relationships and counselling skills to facilitate individual's motivation to take ownership of their recovery pathway. Interview skills including psychologically informed practice skills, motivational interviewing (introductory) and assessment skills targeting maladaptive behaviours, sensory and perceptual alterations and maladaptive motor patterns will be explored. Introductory management strategies will include behavioural change facilitation, graded motor imagery, sensory, perceptual and motor control training, goal setting, exercise and activity graded exposure. Participants will have opportunity to practice these skills in small groups utilising 2 case studies and if available a demonstration of an assessment and management of a client with a non recovering problem, followed by a breakout groups reflective analysis in a clinical reasoning context.
Learning outcomes
- Provide an advanced overview of pain science and biopsychosocial factors, relevant to client-centred clinical practice
- Develop understandings about the integration of the biopsychosocial model in client centred clinical assessment and management
- Develop psychologically informed practice skills that enhance the assessment and management of the individual in pain
- Provide opportunity to practice clinical reasoning skills with case studies, and psychologically informed practice skills relevant to clinical practice
- Enable participants to unpack case studies (video) and written examples and if possible a patient in attendance and practice skills of assessment and management
Prerequisites
- This course is only available to qualified and AHPRA registered physiotherapists.
Presenters
Peter Roberts
Peter is a Specialist Musculoskeletal physiotherapist (as awarded by the Australian College of Physiotherapists), a titled APA Pain and Sports physiotherapist. As a visiting lecturer at the University of South Australia Masters post graduate programs for physiotherapists, he lectures and conducts practical sessions in chronic pain assessment and management, motivational interviewing and demonstrates the assessment and management of people, with complex stuck problems in an interactive format. Peter has co- conducted workshops with a psychologist on psychologically informed practice and motivational interviewing skills.He has completed a Case Series Research project, “Management of complex non-recovered workers: testing the feasibility and appropriateness of a new model of care”. funded by RTWSA and Unis SA. This was collaborated with Assoc Prof Saravana Kumar and Dr Dan Harvie. This project involved the development of the “On Track- Best Practice management Pathway Tool” for physiotherapists and is published on the RTWSA website. Peter is a facilitator of musculoskeletal and pain speciality registrars and examiner for the Australian College of physiotherapists. He is a mentor for local pain educators of Lorimer Moseley's Pain Revolution ride for pain initiative, an educator and one of the support crew on the Pain Revolution bike ride. Peter has extensive experience in the clinical management of people with complex of pain problems, frequently in transdisciplinary settings, with a background of conducting pain management programs with 2 psychologists for over 20 years. Peter conducts a private practice and is very passionate about facilitating people with complex pain problems to discover and embrace recovery pathways.The clinical pain course was initiated and developed through a collaboration of Lester Jones, Alastair Flett and Peter Roberts, in 2016. Alastair Flett and Peter Roberts continue to develop and conduct this course, which receives highly rated feedback from participants.
Alastair Flett
Alastair has well over 20 years experience working in the field of musculoskeletal physiotherapy, holds a masters degree in this field and has successfully completed an Australian College of Physiotherapists fellowship to be awarded the title of Specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist.His particular interests include the management of back and neck pain, headaches, facial pain, dizziness, lower limb injuries and any problem that has proven persistent. In his spare time he enjoys keeping fit, literature and cinema.
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