Health Organisations: Injury and Pain Education and Support

What Every Patient with Pain Needs to Know

‘Those who understand pain hurt less: Those who take control manage pain better’
Professor Lorrimer Moseley: World-renowned researcher in chronic pain.

Every patient with pain wants it to go away. But sadly, pain often continues or worsens due to their:

• Lack of understanding of pain’s many personal, biopsychosocial causes and solutions.
• Reliance on passive, physical interventions, e.g., pain meds, scans and surgery.
• Not knowing what to do to take control and to reduce pain.

This presentation makes the pain science simple. It gives patients a different way to think about their pain: A new perspective that will give renewed hope to many, and for all, practical steps that they can take to reduce pain.

Presentation Outcomes. For everyone to understand:

• What happens within our body and brain when we have pain, and how this affects recovery.
• That pain and recovery are affected by what we believe, think, feel and do.
• That we have more control over pain and recovery than we tend to think.
• Practical steps to manage pain and improve the likelihood of reducing pain into the future.

1/2 or Full Day Workshop Outcomes: As above, but with time for group discussion, practical tasks and personal planning.

For: Any patient with MSK pain rating of 4 and above at six weeks, or with persistent/chronic pain.

Available as: A 1 hour education session with Q&As (up to 100 patients) or as a 1/2 or full day workshop (12 patients max).

Reducing Back Pain: What Patients with Back Pain Should Know.

4/5s of us will get back pain in our lives, whilst back pain is the highest single cause of work-related musculoskeletal disorder absence and disability with the UK.

Recent research shows that the many back pain myths within our society increase not only the rates and severity of back pain, but also prevent people from making informed choices of how to prevent and reduce it.

Workshop Outcomes. For everyone to understand:

• The most common back pain myths and their opposing truths.
• The real causes of back pain.
• What to do to prevent back pain and to improve recovery

Available as: a 1 hour education session with Q&As, a 1/2 or full day workshop.

Patient Workshop Series: Understand and Reduce Your Pain

This series is for a group patients with a range of injury or pain conditions, or for a specific condition, e.g, chronic back pain, osteoarthritis. It covers key findings from pain science and provides a supportive environment for people to take control and focus on what they need to do to recover.

Workshop Outcomes. For patients to:

• Understand what happens in the body and brain when we’re injured or in pain.
• Understand the common physical, psychological and social factors that cause pain and help recovery.
• Consider what helps and hinders their own injury and/or pain management and recovery.
• Develop and action their own pain management and recovery plan.
• Gain and give support.

For optimal results, these can be combined with:

• Our 1-2-1 Injury and Pain Psychology Support for more personalised discussion and change support.
• Post-course support sessions. Here we continue to meet to discuss progress and support each other. We encourage discussion, educate and reinforce as required.

Available as: 6 x 1 hour online sessions or a full day workshop with 2 follow up, online sessions.

For Healthcare Professionals: How to Talk Pain Better

Pain science shows the key role that our beliefs, memories, thoughts, and emotions play in the making of acute and chronic pain. Further, as healthcare practitioners, how our words and actions can either add to our patients’ unhelpful, pain-building thoughts, or start the vital education process that can shift them away from pain (Moseley & Butler, 2021).

Available as: A 1hr presentation with Q&As or a 1/2 day workshop.

In the 1 hour presentation, Caroline:

• Give’s a headline tour of how the brain and body make pain.
• Outlines the five, reliable, psychosocial predictors of return to work and prolonged work disability (e.g., Sullivan, et al., 2011; Edwards, et al. 2016).
• Shares her thoughts and encourages you to reflect on how health practitioners can best help patients in just a few seconds, minutes or longer.

The 1/2 day workshop expands on the above by outlining an evidence-based tool that you can use with patients to help them take control of, and reduce their, pain.

Testimonial:

Lt Col S Bahadur, Consultant-lead for Rheumatology, at the Defence and National Rehabilitation Centre, Stanford Hall.
“Caroline – you were superb. Lots of positive comments at the end (its quite an effort for these busy clinicians to submit a written compliment on MS TEAMS so it reflects how much they valued your presentation). Even more verbal compliments came my way over the last 2 days.”