Details
Course Location:
Online (Zoom)
Course Dates:
Saturday, September 14th, 2024
10:30am – 2:30pm EST
Saturday, October 5th, 2024
10:30am – 2:30pm EST
Course Cost:
$160.00 (CAMPT Member)
$160.00 (PSD Member)
$175.00 (OD Member)
$200.00 (Non-Member)
Registration Deadline: Saturday August 24th, 2024
Course Description:
Do you want to know how to communicate with your patients without making them worse? Do you know how to recognize different types of pain, so you can better treat your patients and achieve improved clinical outcomes?
Physiotherapists who treat individuals with orthopaedic presentations, who have both acute and persistent injuries, also need to recognize, and manage pain. This is true even if clinicians do not consider themselves a “Pain therapist”.
This course has been built from the ground up and developed with the expertise of colleagues in both the Pain Science and Orthopaedic Divisions of the CPA. The course is designed to enhance the clinical skills of all physiotherapists, of all levels of experience, by updating them on the current research in pain science and informing them how best to integrate that research into their current practice to achieve functional and subjective improvements in their patients.
The course specifically focuses on direct clinical application and includes the analysis and discussion of case studies that mirror typical orthopaedic practice. Both new clinicians and experienced physiotherapists will find this course extremely useful in enhancing their clinical skills and improve or facilitate patient management.
Course Objectives:
Recognize the patient’s vulnerabilities and learn how to interact more effectively without the risk of being too professional in your communication style.
Be able to identify and mitigate some of the psychosocial issues that accompany orthopaedic presentations.
Recognize and understand the physiological basis and mechanisms behind typical pain presentations to improve your treatment outcomes.
Learn communication methods to reduce fear to enhance understanding and optimize clinical outcomes.
Identify and change at least one PRACTICE OR HABIT that can be changed on the days following the course to ensure optimal patient recovery.
Instructor Bio: Janet Holly, PT
Janet graduated from McMaster University in 1991 with her Bachelor of Health Science in Physiotherapy. In 2012, she obtained the Clinical Specialist Certification in Pain Sciences and completed a Master of Science at McMaster. Her 30 years of experience working with complex, long-term pain and acute pain complicated by other significant co-morbidities has fostered a passion in pain management.
Janet is a Clinician Researcher at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. Her current research interest is investigating the use of virtual reality as a treatment for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. She teaches nationally on the subjects of CRPS and complex pain.
Janet is a past chair of the Pain Science Division, was an Assessor for the Canadian Physiotherapy Association Specialty Program and is a 30-year member or the Orthopaedic Division.
She has had the good fortune to be part of the faculty for the International Association for the Study of Pain CRPS working group COMPACT and a member of the International Research Consortium for CRPS.
