Summary
When thinking about pain, we have clear guidelines for three classification types:
- Nociceptive pain
- Neuropathic pain
- Nociplastic pain
Patients with pain lasting longer than three months usually fall into the nociplastic category. Lorimer Moseley recently described nociplastic pain in layman’s terms, by using the term, pain system hypersensitivity.
This exciting area of practice allows us to get our creative juices flowing, and address an important driver of pain system hypersensitivity, namely, sensory-motor dysregulation. (Bagg et al, 2022).
When our bodies no longer “feel” like they can do the job they were supposed to do, this disconnect between the sensory and movement systems in our body is an important target to address. Novel, non-threatening exercises become an important part of our exercise prescription for people with persistent pain.
Join Carolyn Vandyken, a pelvic health clinician, researcher, and McKenzie credentialed therapist as she reflects on her work over the last decade in creating novel movement practices for persistent pelvic and spinal pain.
Objectives
Upon completion of this webinar, clinicians will:
- Understand the different types of pain classification
- Understand the importance of phenotyping pain system hypersensitivity
- Use the Fremantle questionnaires to assess sensory-motor dysregulation
- Get curious about exercise prescription from a novel, sensory-motor rich perspective
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.
I could listen to more of these! Having a clinical case is helpful.