Course overview
Develop an understanding of pain, advance clinical reasoning skills and introduce the principles of pain management within a multidisciplinary framework.
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.
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