Certification
This course is part of the Certification : Global Approach to Pain Management. Purchase this certification and save 15% on the price of individual courses. To obtain certification, you must have completed the following courses and passed the certification exam:
Level 1 summary
Certification offers an innovative, evidence-based, holistic approach to pain management. This approach integrates 10 key elements including neuroscience and education about pain; stress response; breathing, meditation, imagery, yoga and mindfulness therapy. The management of the person in pain is guided by a bio-psycho-social model. This pain-centered approach takes into consideration the factors that predict rehabilitation outcomes, integrates notions of compassion, neuroplasticity and offers exercises adapted to the person’s condition through yoga-inspired movements and manual techniques.
Level 1 is built around the 10 key elements of certification. It is an innovative, complete and clinically applicable course that offers the best tools to manage a person in pain in its entirety, according to the latest scientific evidence.
Through this level, the participant will learn many theoretical and practical concepts aimed at:
- See the person in pain in his or her entirety thanks to the BPS + model
- Better understand the neuroscience of pain and its impact on the person in pain
- Be able to explain the phenomenon of pain
- Better evaluate and classify pain in order to optimize its management
- Understand the influence of the stress response in pain management
- Consider predictive factors of therapeutic results
- Introduce breathing, meditation, mindfulness, imagery and yoga in rehabilitation
- Provide mindfulness therapy
Key elements addressed are:
- The BPS+ model
- Neuroscience of pain: Ceptions, neuromatrix, pain mechanisms
- Stress response and polyvagal theory
- Predictors of therapeutic outcome: Motivation, locus of control, self-efficacy, expectations and the therapeutic bond
- Mindfulness therapy
- Modern pain education
- Breathing
- Meditation and mindfulness
- Imagery
- Yoga
Objectives
- Apply the bio-psycho-social plus model in the management of the person in pain
- Understand and be able to explain the neuroscience of pain in relation to practice and clinical reality
- Evaluate and classify pain by mechanism to optimize management
- Justify the application of validated questionnaires in pain management
- Understand the clinical implication of the stress response and the polyvagal theory in the person in pain and apply it in his management
- Recognize the importance of predictors of therapeutic outcome, psycho-social factors, sleep and energy conservation in the management of the person in pain
- Integrate the basics of yoga, mindfulness meditation, cardiac coherence and imagery in the optimization of the assessment and management of the person in pain
Course Content
Target professionals
Content is not intended for use outside the scope of the learner’s license or regulation. Continuing education courses should not be taken by people who are not licensed or regulated.This does not apply when they are part of a specific plan of care. By participating in this course, the participant agrees to respect his/her professional scope of practice.
A very comprehensive training on pain that will help me improve my practice with clients who often experience persistent pain. Thank you very much!