How to manage physical pain and accelerate healing
A one-day course with tutor: Dr. Grahame Brown
Course outline:
Persistent pain is endemic in our society. It causes tremendous suffering and often proves incapacitating. In his much-needed workshop, Dr Grahame Brown,
a leading musculoskeletal medicine consultant, shows how we can reduce this suffering by using psychological methods to control pain and speed up healing.
A key event if you work with people suffering from pain at any stage (from recent onset, recurrent to persistent). You will learn a wide variety of techniques, which can easily be integrated into your work, to help relieve pain and promote recovery – often in just one session. No prior medical knowledge is needed to enjoy and learn from the day.
| What you will gain from attending: | |
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The confidence and skills to help patients suffering from persistent pain of whatever cause, and no need to feel ‘heart-sink’ with some patients |
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How to identify risk factors and reduce the risk of chronic pain developing – prevention is better than cure |
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An understanding of the value of pain displacement and how to use the brain’s ‘reality simulator’ |
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How to use guided imagery, relaxation and distraction |
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How to produce significant relief by changing the way patients think about their pain – in minutes |
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How healthcare professionals can make their consultations more therapeutic |
| • | How to avoid labelling patients’ pain as ‘purely psychological’. |
Who should attend?
• Doctors • Surgeons • Nurses • Dentists • Neurologists • Osteopaths • Chiropractics • Palliative Care Workers • Psychiatrists • Midwives • Physiotherapists • Occupational Therapists • Psychologists • Health Visitors • Support/Care Workers • Psychotherapists • Counsellors
Course programme:
Registration: 8.30 am to 9.30 am (Tea or coffee before 9.25 am)
9.30am – Pain assessment and current treatments
Health professionals can feel powerless in the face of conditions that can’t be explained (at least from the bio-medical model), don’t respond, or only partially respond, to medical treatments. The majority of patients suffering from persistent pain often find that medical treatments are ineffective or only partially effective, or that they cannot take the full dose of pain killers due to their severe side effects. We look at: the scale of the problem; current knowledge of pain processing in the mind/body system; the risk factors that increase vulnerability; what exacerbates a pain problem and what influences it to persist and become chronic (for example, thinking styles, behaviour of health professionals and the individual); and what is common in those suffering from ‘medically unexplainable’ symptoms?
11.00am — Tea/coffee
11.30am – The ‘human givens’ in relation to pain
The therapeutic approaches that work. How to assess a patient/client with a pain problem – the key questions to ask – and then make a differ-
ence quickly using the RIGAAR framework and human givens principles.
1.00pm — Lunch
2.00pm – Case history
We watch and analyse a FILM of a patient with a persistent pain problem that reveals many of the common problems such people experience and demonstrates powerful techniques used by the therapist to make a difference. We examine these techniques and how they can be used.
3.00pm — Tea/coffee
3.30pm – Putting it all together
How to teach simple techniques to patients to reduce their discomfort. Stories and metaphors that help to understand pain and accelerate heal-
ing. Integrating the human givens organising ideas, and skills learned, with both bio-medical and complementary treatments in any setting. Case histories are used throughout the day and there will be plenty of opportunities for questions and any contributions you may wish to make.
| MANCHESTER: | Date: Tuesday 19th June 2012 Venue: Old Dining Hall, Hulme Hall Times: Each day starts at 9.30am and ends at 4.30pm Course Code: PN02 |
| BRISTOL: | Date: Thursday 20th September 2012 Venue: Clifton Hill House, University of Bristol Times: Each day starts at 9.30am and ends at 4.30pm Course Code: PN03 |
| LONDON: | Date: Thursday 6th December 2012 Venue: Friends House Quaker Meeting Centre Times: Each day starts at 9.30am and ends at 4.30pm Course Code: PN04 |
| PRICE: | £160 plus vat (£192) per person. Fee includes tuition, course notes, attendance certificate, lunch
and refreshments. Thinking of booking 5 or more courses? |
To book by phone, call: 01323 811690
Alternatively, you can download an application form and post or fax it to:
Human Givens College,
Chalvington,
East Sussex,
BN27 3TD
fax: 00 44 (0)1323 811486
Also see, How to Book.