Deconstructing Pain Master Course Series

If you’ve spent any amount of time in the clinic, you’ve encountered (and likely struggled with) patients with persistent pain. We all have at one point. This course series is designed for those clinicians who have had their abilities severely stretched and tested treating these patients.

This course series has one goal: to help participants get RESULTS with the persistent pain population.

There are so many challenges inherent in persistent pain:

• How do you know they have persistent pain?

• How can you figure this out?

• How can you communicate this to them in a non-threatening manner?

• And most of all, is there anything to do other than JUST TALKING? 🤔

Over two weekends, participants will learn the answers to these questions and more via a series of engaging lectures, and intense expert-led lab practice. This series goes beyond concepts, and gets directly into the details.

Participants will learn:

• How to use advanced subjective & objective examination techniques to secure a diagnosis

• How to classify patients based on pain type

• How to explain the diagnosis

• How to implement biopsychosocial interventions with your patients

• How to update your current treatment approach in harmony with the biopsychosocial model

• How to treat the whole person, and leverage other members of treatment team

In short, participants will learn how to prevent clinician (and patient) burnout via a research-based, clinic-tested, systematic approach to assessing and treating persistent pain. If you’ve ever been left scratching your head after treating a pain patient, this is the course series for you.

Course Information 

Class Schedule

Weekend 1

Saturday

• Introduction/Expectations/Objectives

• The pain problem

• Discrimination of musculoskeletal pain complaints

• Clinically oriented pain neuroscience

• Case review

• Lunch

• Examination of the patient in pain

  • Subjective exam

    • Advanced techniques

      • 'Safe to Move'

      • The Pain Bubble

      • Chart review

  • Lab practice

Sunday

• Examination of the patient in pain

  • Objective exam

    • Building the exam / What does the patient need?

    • Advanced Techniques

      • Story-building

  • Lab practice

• Lunch

• Case review

• Explaining the diagnosis/Setting the Stage

  • Lab practice

Weekend 2

Saturday

• Biopsychosocially Informed Treatment

  • Goal Oriented Behavior

  • Pain Neuroscience Education

  • Lab practice

• Exercise Prescription

• Managing the Total Patient

• Case review/group practice

• Lunch

• Patient management

  • Motivational interviewing

  • Stages of change theory

  • Flare ups

  • Use of outcome measures

  • Referring out

• Case review/group practice

Sunday

• Special topics/populations

  • CRPS / Phantom limb pain

  • Fibromyalgia

  • Elderly population

  • Athletes/Military/Workers comp

• Culturally tuned care

• Understanding your limits

• Lunch

• Simulated live patient evaluations / Lab practice

Dates

July 30-31 & September 24-25

Location

Movement Performance Institute, Los Angeles, California

Payment Information

Cost: $1300

• Purchase the course via DeconstructingPain.com

OR

• Payment accepted via major credit cards, cash/check

  • You must arrange this specifically & in advance with course staff

  • Payment plans possible if needed. If other payment options are required, please contact deconstructingpainPT@gmail.com

  • Placement in the course will not be reserved until 50% payment is received. You may receive a refund in full up until 2 weeks before the course.