Explain Pain

NCORE

Lecturer: Ben Davies MSc, BSc, MCSP

Course Aims:

• To expand the clinical framework of rehabilitation via the paradigms of neuromatrix and pain mechanisms;
• To teach biologically based pain management skills under a framework of the sciences of clinical reasoning and evidence from clinical trials, neurobiology and education research;
• To reconceptualise pain in terms of modern neuroscience and philosophy;
• To stimulate an urgent reappraisal of current thinking in rehabilitation, with benefits for all stakeholders in clinical outcomes - the patient, the therapist, the referrer and the payer;
• To teach the core pain management skills of neuroscience education.