Pain In Practice

Understanding more about pain, what it is and how it works is important. But a quick scan online and you quickly realise even the people that are trying to do this for a living aren't completely sure. So what do you, as a clinician, do if the people studying it aren't even sure exactly what it is? You get better at applying what you know to help the people in front of you that ask you for help.

Dave Renfrew

You do not have to know everything about pain to be very, very good at helping people with painful problems get back to the life they want. For 20 years I have helped people with complex, long standing pain break the cycle of pain and disability and return to the activities that give meaning to life.

As an allied health practitioner you got started because you want to make a difference. If you want to change the world, help someone with persistent pain get back to the things they are missing out on

Course Objectives

  • Develop an understanding of current pain science theory
  • Demonstrate an ability to communicate explanations of pain in a simple way
  • Employ a comprehensive assessment structure to accurately diagnose triage assessments
  • Demonstrate an ability to assess the impact pain has on an individual
  • Build a comprehensive and individualised treatment framework
  • Develop a rehabilitation plan tailored to an individual

Course Themes

  • Theoretical Neuroscience
  • Philosophy of Pain
  • Assessment and Diagnostic
  • Consult structure
  • Treatment Frameworks
  • Recovery Planning
  • Rehabilitation concepts and Programming

Does this sound like you?

You are an allied health professional, eager to make a difference in people's lives

You find it hard to navigate complex pain presentations

You want to make a difference but you find it hard to know how best to do that

You feel there is more out there to help you develop

You don't have time to navigate every source and read every article

You are confused by a lot of the jargon online with modern pain science

You want to develop your own way of helping people

Dave Renfrew presenting

Pain In Practice

Take the next step to becoming an expert pain clinician.

What's Included

In depth discussion on cutting edge neuroscience and human behaviour

Exposure to advanced ideas in Pain Science

Case Studies from Initial assessment through to advanced rehab

The blueprint for diagnostic and clinical reasoning

Frameworks for treatment and rehab planning

Skills to simplify decision making under uncertainty