• Join Dr Pete Gladwell BSc PhD MCSP SRP 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!
• This Mini Series was originally broadcast in September 2018

Programme

Understanding pain to focus assessment

What you’ll learn:

• Understand the differences between acute and chronic pain
• Be able to explain these differences to your patients
• Understand the biopsychosocial model of pain
• Gain an overview of pain classification
• Understand risk factors and prognostic factors in chronic pain
• Develop a focused approach to assessment
• Understand the Yellow Flags approach
• Start to individualise therapy based on Yellow Flags

Help your patients to stay active despite pain

What you’ll learn:

• Gain a clear understanding of activity management
• Recognise the disadvantages of “activity cycling”
• Have a useful understanding of baseline setting and “stop rules”
• Support your patient in identifying important life domains for goalsetting
• Help your patients to set goals for key activities
• Understand self-efficacy, and be able to identify changes in self-efficacy

Cognitive and behavioural approaches

What you’ll learn:

• Be able to identify the multiple sources of distress due to pain
• Identify the limits of physiotherapy practice in managing distress
• Develop a working model of the cognitive behavioural approach
• Understand the links between fear avoidance and cognitions
• Help your patients to develop a flare up plan

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.