Effective Pain Management - Psychological and behavioural ways to alleviate pain and accelerate healing

Training from the Human Givens College

"Dr Brown has a real gift for helping people heal themselves – I know: I’m one of them!"

- CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY, PROFESSOR OF RHEUMATOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM

Why you should attend

The impact chronic or recurring pain has on 100,000s of individuals, their families, employers and our health care systems can be immense and shows no signs of improving despite advances in bio-medical technology.

Health professionals can feel powerless in the face of conditions that can’t be explained (at least by 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.

But this suffering can be reduced.

Important new insights from neuroscience into the complex biology of how we experience pain have enabled the development of a powerful range of psychological techniques for managing pain naturally and speeding up healing.

On this ground-breaking course, Dr Grahame Brown explains in easy-to-understand terms what is going on in the mind/body system and what we can do to reduce suffering when pain persists.

Combining these insights, with proven psychological techniques and the holistic bio-psycho-social model gives us a powerful approach with which to reduce the suffering of countless people and help cut costs for the NHS and other health care providers.

Pain is endemic in our society and whatever the cause – back pain, migraine, arthritic pain, dental pain, irritable bowel (IBS), labour/menstrual pain, cancer pain, psychogenic pain, psychosomatic pain – it can be incapacitating.

It is estimated that between 25 – 40% of our population suffer from persistent or chronic pain – the sociological and economic costs of this are enormous but it is in the personal human suffering involved – mental as well as physical – that the real costs should be measured. Many are desperate for effective help.

This workshop – with leading pain and musculoskeletal medicine consultant Dr Grahame Brown – gives you important new information about how we experience pain – derived from the latest neuroscience – and a powerful range of psychological techniques for managing pain naturally, preventing it from escalating and speeding up healing.

You will discover how people can be helped out of the vicious cycle of chronic pain and how, by working holistically through the bio-psycho-social model, suffering can be dramatically reduced.

You don’t need to have any prior medical knowledge to learn from and enjoy the day – you will leave with a much clearer understanding of what is going on in the mind/body system, what you can do to reduce suffering when pain persists and ways to prevent chronic ongoing pain from developing.

It is a key event if you work with people suffering from pain at any stage (from recent onset, recurrent to persistent) or if you would like to find out how to successfully manage pain without medication.

You will learn a wide variety of pain management techniques, which can easily be integrated into your work, to help relieve pain and promote recovery – often in just one session.

What will you learn

• An increased understanding of how we perceive pain (from the latest neuroscientific research) and what is happening in the mind/body system
• A road map for helping people out of the vicious cycle of chronic pain, or to stop it developing in the first place
• The confidence and skills to help patients suffering from persistent pain of whatever cause – no need to feel ‘heart-sink’ with some patients anymore
• An understanding of what is going on when pain persists – and what you can do about it
• How to reduce the risk of chronic pain developing – prevention is better than cure – and identify the factors that make it likely
• A range of psychological chronic pain management techniques to use with your patients or yourself
• The importance of the bio-psycho-social model in reducing pain and accelerating healing
• How to produce significant pain relief by changing the way people think about their pain – in minutes
• An understanding of the value of pain displacement and how to use the brain’s ‘reality simulator’
• What the latest neuroscience tell us about the experience of pain
• How to use guided imagery, relaxation and distraction to promote chronic pain relief
• How to deal with constant pain and promote healing
• How healthcare professionals can make their consultations more therapeutic
• How to avoid labelling patients’ pain as ‘purely psychological’
• The many myths about pain – and why some well-intentioned pain management techniques don’t work and more…

No prior medical knowledge is needed for you to benefit from the day.

Who is this course suitable for?

• This course is designed to enhance the skills and knowledge of health care professionals of any discipline who work on a regular or occasional basis with people in pain to improve outcomes, including: • doctors • surgeons • nurses • dentists • neurologists • osteopaths • chiropractors • palliative care workers • psychiatrists • midwives • physiotherapists • occupational therapists • psychologists • health visitors • support/care workers • psychotherapists • counsellors – it is perfect CPD
• If you personally experience persistent pain then you will gain much from the workshop but please be aware the programme is not designed to be a treatment day and the tutor will be unable to give opinions to individuals with pain problems unless (with consent) their problem can be discussed for the benefit of all participants
• Anyone who would like to understand more about their own experience of pain, or that of someone they care for, and what can be done to manage ongoing pain and alleviate suffering

Price: £192 per person

CPD Certificate 6 hours

For further information and booking head here to the Human Givens website