Tmnt of Pt with Chronic Pain

Catalog description

This course is designed to update students on the emerging research in the field of pain science and pain education. It will also teach students how to apply research into their clinical practice. This course will help students understand the complexities of patients with chronic pain and help students learn how to treat this population more effectively. This course will challenge students to take into account the science behind the pain experience, the patient’s history, and the patient’s clinical presentation in order to improve their clinical reasoning when treating patients with chronic pain. The course will also include a lab component where students will implement regional interdependence principles, create treatment plans, and educational plans for their peers. The course in addition will include a cadaver portion where students can learn the impact of the nervous system anatomy and how it affects the pain experience. At the end of the course students will give a short presentation about how they will use the information from this course to treat a current patient of theirs. Students have the option to discuss a previous patient and how they would have treated that patient differently after taking this course.