2-Day Chronic Pain Certificate Course by Robert Rosenbaum

Overview:

Effects of chronic pain on mental health

Primary prevention

The best cure is prevention
Early detection and early intervention

Prevalence and impact of pain

Incidence and Prevalence: Most Common Types
Social cost
Impact on client’s mental health and quality of life

Sociodemographic factors
Biology of pain

What is pain?
Physical, emotional, psychological, environmental factors
Pain intensity vs pain pain
Types of pain
Nociceptive and neuropathic
Influence of place
Etiology, time course, sensation
Inflammation, cancer, ischemia
Acute versus chronic pain
Pain transmission and modulation
Pain neurochemicals
Pain, brain, tension
Central sensitization
The role of attention
Pain: Beyond Basic Biology
Biological psychosocial model
Vicious cycle of maladaptive coping strategies
Psychological and emotional aspects of pain
The effect of pain on one’s senses
Against the myth of pain

Assessment, intervention, and management

Pain treatment options

Medicine and medical procedure
Introduction of painkillers
Opioids-Myths and Facts

Epidemic of opioids

Effectiveness and risk of opioids
Tolerance-dependent
Poisoning and abuse risk

Evaluation

Basic guidelines
interview
Psychometer
Distress vs distress

Behavior therapy

Technique vs relationship
Mindfulness and other meditations
Hype and reality
Focus and open awareness
Breathing method: 4 ways
Comfort Strategy: You Are Greater Than Pain
Notice
Importance of early detection
Embody with image and name
Refocus
Expansion and reduction of attention
Go distal; go central
Images and self hypnosis
Reconsider
Catastrophic CBT
Separate pain from pain
Dealing with flare
Additional behavioral treatment tools
Pacing
Gentle movement
The importance of face, hands and feet
Shiatsu self-massage
Qigong of pain
Sleep and rest
pleasant
Grow positive
Antidote for difficult emotions
Increased emotional granularity
Associate
Develop a positive relationship
Dealing with difficult relationships

Discriminatory treatment considerations
Results of integrated intervention
Research limitations and risks of psychotherapeutic approaches

Explanation:

Another client gets into your office mad at the chronic pain they are suffering everyday. They begin to share their story, revealing the despair and despair from living in a perpetually dire state, with frustration masks flaking off. Most clinicians are not trained in chronic pain, but this scenario is too familiar because at least one-third of their clients suffer from chronic pain. As more and more clients move away from medication and seek holistic solutions, we are not convinced of the best way to help them.

Imagine helping a client learn that pain can be inevitable, but misery is an option. Enhance your therapeutic relationship by examining the reality of your client’s distress and showing you how to make your distress relief experience immediately. Explore Shiatsu and meditation to help clients discover how their mind and body are connected.

In this recording, neuropsychologist Dr. Robert Rosenbaum will tell you the facts about pain biology and effective treatment strategies so you can confidently educate and treat your clients. Combining experiential exercises such as guided images, acupressure, meditation, and gentle movements with cognitive behaviors puts the right skills and tools at your fingertips to treat chronic pain.