Know Pain: A Practical Guide for Persistent Pain Therapy The Royal London Hospital Saturday 12th & Sunday 13th April 2025 “Attending this course was like opening a treasure chest filled with invaluable gems of pain knowledge and practical skills.” Physiotherapist “I connect with my patients so much better since taking this course.” Physiotherapist Learning Aims: This course will help you develop a range of engaging, practical skills so that you can help people make sense of pain and overcome it. You will learn ways to apply practical solutions to everyday clinical challenges. • Help people to feel believed by understanding the relationship between pain, perception & behaviour change without them thinking that it’s “all in their head!” • Learn ways to combine a biopsychosocial approach with your manual therapy and exercise therapy skills. • Learn creative ways to help people make sense of pain by using interactive experiments involving taste, touch and hearing! • Become a better teacher. Guide people who become stuck, empower people who feel hopeless, and engage people who feel bored. • Optimise patient education by expanding your teaching toolkit & applying educational theories to your practice. • Help people to express their experience of living with pain through a range of engaging and empowering communication skills. • Explore the role of metaphors in healthcare and understand the hidden impact of language on clinical outcomes. • Integrate practical psychological treatment skills into your rehabilitation by exploring motivational interviewing, cognitive-behavioural therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, mindfulness and cognitive bias modification. • Explore a variety of patient case studies that give you the opportunity to use what you have learnt before returning to your clinic. Course Description: The challenge of successfully managing persistent pain can be one of the most daunting for both clinicians and people in pain who are often frustrated after failed short-term interventions. It is often difficult to understand and explain high and prolonged levels of pain where a traditional tissue based cause is lacking. This course explores a cutting edge, patient centered approach using a variety of practical learning methods to help your patients make sense and overcome their pain. It provides a range of practical applications and innovative learning methods to take into your clinic for immediate results. The course content blends a wide range of contemporary evidence from both educational and healthcare literature. Know Pain courses have been taught in twenty countries and have provided a wide range of clinicians around the world with practical skills. Feedback from over 1000 people who have attended Know Pain courses has shown that 100% would recommend a Know Pain course to their colleagues, whilst 95% felt more confident when helping people to overcome pain. This 2 day practical course is relevant to anyone who works with people in pain. Course Outline: Day 1 Setting the Scene: What is pain? What are we hoping to achieve? The Neurobiology of Pain: Helping people understand why it hurts in their own words. Developing Teaching Skills: Optimise your patient education toolkit. Day 2 The Language of Pain: Develop your communication skills & help people to express their experience of living with pain. Pain & the Affective Mind: Combining psychological treatment skills with physical rehabilitation and manual therapy. Getting Going Again: Empowering function by applying pacing & graded exposure therapy. Case Studies: An opportunity to test what you have learnt before you return to your practice. Tutor: Mike Stewart MCSP SRP MSc PG Cert (Clin Ed) Mike is a physiotherapist, researcher and visiting university lecturer with 30 years experience. Cost: £275 Discounts: £220 for students & when booking with a colleague. CPD hours: 14

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