Strategies for Treating People with Persistent Pain
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Instructor: Marcos Lopez, PT, DPT, OCS, FAAOMPT
Contact Hours: 16 hours
Course Description
This two-day onsite laboratory course is focused on practical, evidence-informed strategies for evaluating and treating people with persistent musculoskeletal pain. The course blends brief topical discussions about pain with focused and extensive partner practice to build clinical skills in sensory testing, graded motor imagery, pain education, motivational interviewing, and cognitive functional therapy.
Participants will learn to integrate these approaches into real patient scenarios to improve reasoning, communication, and treatment planning.
Day 1
8:00–8:15 a.m. Intro/Welcome
8:15–9:00 a.m. Assessment of Yellow Flags and Lifestyle Behaviors
9:00–10:30 a.m. Motivational Interviewing Skills Review and Practice
10:30 a.m.–Noon. Pain Neuroscience Education Review and Practice
LUNCH BREAK
1:00–2:30 p.m. Quantitative Sensory Testing Lab
2:30–4:00 p.m. Graded Motor Imagery Lab
4:00–5:00 p.m. Case Integration and Round Robin
Day 2
8:00–9:30 a.m. Communication/Pain Education Round Robin Lab
9:30–10:30 a.m. Cognitive Functional Therapy
10:30 a.m.–Noon Case Application – Spine
LUNCH BREAK
1:00–3:00 p.m. Case Application – Upper Extremity
3:00–5:00 p.m. Case Application – Lower Extremity
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Apply the concepts of peripheral and central pain sensitization when managing patients with musculoskeletal pain disorders.
- Perform quantitative sensory testing procedures in people with common pain conditions of the spine and extremities.
- Apply graded motor imagery strategies for people with persistent pain conditions of the spine and extremities.
- Communicate evidence-informed pain neuroscience strategies when educating people with musculoskeletal pain disorders.
- Apply motivational interviewing strategies to empower people with persistent pain conditions.
- Apply cognitive functional therapy strategies for people with persistent pain conditions of the spine and extremities.
Contact Hours and CEUs
Participants will earn 16 contact hours.
Note: Participants are responsible for submitting proof of attendance for CEU verification. Bellin College has CEU approval for this course for 48 hours.
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