• Join Paul Laggerman BSc, PG Cert, NZRP, Physiotherapist for three 2-hour online sessions
• Comprehensive notes to downloaded
• Self-assessment quizzes to ‘release’ your 8 hours CPD certification (don’t worry, you can take them more than once if you don’t quite hit the mark first time)
• A whole year’s access to recorded sessions for reviewing key points
• Superb value for money – learn without travelling
• Watch the recordings on your iPad!

Programme

The search for Truth

This lecture will briefly explore the historical understanding of pain, the evolving picture up to the present day and how the patronage of physiotherapy to medical empiricism has resulted in limitations in the management of persistent pain. Finally, this lecture will set the scene towards a shift in reasoning models.

What you’ll learn:

• The clinician will gain an understanding of the historical perspectives of pain
• The clinician will gain an understanding of Biomedicalism and its limitations in the management of persistent pain.
• The clinician will be able to identify the need for a shift in reasoning models and the limitations of traditional physiotherapy reasoning models.

Thinking, reasoning, formulating

This lecture will explore the biopsychosocial model and associated models of clinical reasoning that are currently applied in the management of persistent pain. A focus on common psychometric questionnaires and their utility in clinical reasoning will also be explored.

What you’ll learn:

• The clinician will gain an understanding of the process of critical thinking.
• The clinician will be able to demonstrate an understanding of reasoning frameworks.
• The clinician will gain an understanding of the use of psychometric questionnaires.
• To gain an understanding of case formulation as a reasoning approach to chronic pain management.

Putting it all together

This lecture will consolidate the content of the previous 2 lectures into a case study (NSLBP) demonstrating a clinical reasoned approach to pain management. In addition, this lecture will explore the literature around communication and its effect on reasoning with specific considerations to language, clinician/client behavior and other contextual factors. Finally, it will look to consider the implications on therapeutic relationship and self-determination.

What you’ll learn:

• The clinician will be able to apply a clinical reasoning approach within persistent pain management.
• Functional patterns of movement
• The clinician will be able to demonstrate an understanding of a dynamic reasoning approach to clinical practice.
• The clinician will become familiar with communication literature surrounding patient centered care and self-determination.

The price includes all 3 sessions, notes and quiz – 8 hours of CPD

*No traffic jams, accommodation hassles, pet or childcare, rota clashes, locum fees ……….. just great CPD and a valuable ongoing resource.