NOV
16
2024
NOV
17
2024
Explain Pain: Stroke & Neurological Rehabilitation
Face to face, 2 day course – $900 (inc. GST)
Saturday 16 November 2024 @ 8.30am-5pmSunday 17 November 2024 @ 8.30am-5pm
Deer Park Clinic – NeuroRehab Allied Health Network, 3 Canterbury St, Deer Park VIC 3023
Presented by Brendon Haslam – Neuro Orthopaedic Institute (Noigroup)
This lecture, practical and interactive course is tailored to clinicians working with neurological clients. It will help you to understand how the pain system works, the notion of pain as an output, and how this applies to clients with neurological conditions. The relationship of pain to other response systems, such as cognition and language, will be introduced, in addition to the immune and endocrine systems.
Individuals with neurological conditions such as stroke, spinal cord injury, Parkinson’s Disease and multiple sclerosis are more than twice as likely to experience chronic pain than individuals with an “intact” nervous system. Experiencing chronic pain has an additional effect on this population, with a further impact on function and quality of life. Despite this, pain is too often neglected in neurological patient care, and clinical guidelines remain consistently vague with regard to recommendations for pain if pain is mentioned at all.
This course will introduce and discuss known contributions towards the pain experience in individuals with neurological conditions, such as somatosensation, body image and body schema, and knowledge of the condition. From this, assessment and treatment strategies will be introduced and practised, including graded motor imagery, sensory retraining, and pain education. Participants will learn how to utilise these strategies to influence pain and other outputs as appropriate as part of a rehabilitation model, including ideas for progression.
Objectives
Course aims:
To introduce the concept of pain as one of many output systems which may be perturbed in neurological clients.
To expand the clinical framework of neurological rehabilitation to incorporate pain rehabilitation via neuromatrix and pain mechanisms paradigms.
To reconceptualise pain in terms of modern neuroscience and philosophy.
To introduce an array of established and novel assessment and treatment strategies tailored to the neurological client with pain, based on clinical reasoning and evidence from clinical trials and neurobiology.
To introduce the role of tailored education in effective pain treatment based on current research.
Presented by the Neuro Orthopaedic Institute (NOI)
Noigroup’s core philosophy is to create and provide evidence-based multimedia resources and courses for the treatment of pain. Noigroup reinvests directly into ongoing research in pain literacy education, graded motor imagery and neurodynamics.
Instructor Brendon Haslam
BAppSc (Physio) MPhysio (Neurological) PhD MACP
Brendon lives in Melbourne, Australia, where he currently works clinically in private practice with people in chronic pain, working with people with complex pain states, while also having a university research fellowship investigating sensory retraining in stroke.
For many years he worked in hospital rehabilitation settings, in both pain and neurological programs, and has been awarded titling by the Australian Physiotherapy Association in both disciplines of physiotherapy. His particular interest is in complex pain states for people with neurological deficits, and has undertaken additional training in numerous neurological treatment approaches.
Brendon initially trained as a physiotherapist in Adelaide, before completing his Masters Neurological Physiotherapy in Melbourne. Brendon is actively involved in clinical research which started with his PhD investigating chronic pain following stroke, and now continues as a Research Fellow at La Trobe University and The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health. He is currently involved in studies for complex conditions such as Complex Regional Pain Syndrome and Chronic Post-Stroke Pain, exploring the effectiveness of interventions, including pain education, graded motor imagery, sensory retraining, and mind-body therapies. He now also supervises higher-degree researchers in pain-related topics at La Trobe University and the University of Adelaide.
Brendan has been teaching at post graduate level since 2002 in areas of neurological and pain rehabilitation. He joined Noigroup in 2012.
Dates
Saturday 16 November 2024
@ 8.30am-5pm
Sunday 17 November 2024
@ 8.30am-5pm
Venue
Deer Park Clinic
NeuroRehab Allied Health Network
3 Canterbury Street
Deer Park VIC 3023
Cost
$900 (inc. GST) includes catering.
Prerequisites
While there are no formal pre-requisites for this course, clinical experience in treating neurological patients would certainly be advantageous.
This course is open to health professionals working with neurological patients with a desire to manage associated pain states.
Register Online
Complete the online registration form and pay securely via PayPal by clicking the link below. For multiple attendees, submit registration for each one individually.
If the course is fully booked at the time of registration, please join the waitlist. We will contact you if a place becomes available or advise you of additional dates we will be running the same or similar course.
Transfer Registration
To transfer registration from one individual to another, please submit the transfer registration form via the link below.
Contact
Contact courses@nrah.com.au for further information.