Course overview
In this course, students will develop an understanding of pain, advance clinical reasoning skills and introduce the principles of pain management within a multidisciplinary framework. This includes: current models for the clinical engagement of pain; the biopsychosocial model of pain; pain mechanisms and contributors; integration of the pain sciences into clinical reasoning models; pain deconstruction into pathobiological mechanisms; identification of risk factors for chronicity; assessment of pain, disability and recovery; principles of acute and chronic pain management; multidisciplinary pain management strategies; common pain conditions.
Course learning outcomes
- Describe the biological and psychological factors that contribute to a pain experience.
- Describe the roles of the nociceptive, endocrine, immune, motor, autonomic nervous systems in the experience of pain.
- Apply principles from the basic sciences to clinical examples using biopsychosocial models of engagement.
- Identify the psychosocial factors that increase the risk of pain-related disability
- Identify reliable and professionally accepted outcome measures pain, function and recovery.
- Formulate an appropriate physiotherapy management program for a patient with chronic pain.
- Explain pain to a layperson using jargon-free language.
Degree list
The following degrees include this course