The Fundamentals of Understanding and Healing Pain Course

The Fundamentals of Understanding and Healing Pain Course is organized by PT Seminars.

Course Description:
How much do you know about pain? Certainly, you know that it’s an unpleasant experience often associated with injury and something most of us try to avoid. But did you know that pain is generated by the brain 100% of the time? Or that pain is not an accurate measure of the health and status of our tissues and joints?  In this course, you will learn how the brain generates pain in response to perceptions rather than reality; how changes in the body systems can allow pain to persist and become chronic; and how you can change clients’ perceptions and reduce or eliminate their pain while improving their movement effectiveness. Understanding pain and perception is not a box to be checked while working with people in pain, the principles established in this course are foundational to how we practice and interact with all people.

This online certificate course for Physical Therapists/PTA’s, Occupational Therapists/COTA’s, and ATC’s , is a learning module taught by on-demand streaming video. At the end of the course, there will be a quiz. Upon successful completion of the quiz, a certificate confirming completion of The Fundamentals of Understanding and Healing Pain Course will be issued.

Course Objectives:
• Identify the relationship between pain and the nervous system
• Identify how threat and insecurity govern the perception of pain
• Identify how changes in the nervous system can perpetuate the perception of pain
• Identify practical ways to reduce pain and sensitivity and increase movement effectiveness