Pain Unstuck takes a fresh look at pain through the lens of active inference. Active inference flips our understanding of how the nervous system operates and provides a potential explanatory framework to guide your clinical practice.
This 2-day course takes participants on a journey to consider pain as a deeply personal, conscious experience. This means pain doesn’t live in the tissues, nor in the brain. Rather, pain sits somewhere in between, emerging from the delicate dance between sensory information and your unconscious predictions.
Using case studies, participants will learn how to help their patients understand that it is safe to move, feel that it is safe to move, experience safe movement and repeatedly move with confidence.
What you will learn:
✅ Screening for increased risk of serious structural pathology
✅ Screening for increased risk of neuropathic pain
✅ Understanding the evidence for exercise as a treatment for persisting pain
✅ Planning a comprehensive exercise rehabilitation programme for persons with persisting pain
✅ Retraining the sensorimotor system through sensory precision training, implicit and explicit pre-motor training, and feedback-enriched and goal oriented movement.
✅ Extending your subjective examination to incorporate the person and their wider world
✅ Experimenting with movement as a form of learning
✅ Aligning existing treatments (e.g. manual therapy, taping, etc) with this active inference perspective of pain
Is funding available to attend this course?
Health professionals may be eligible for the Health Workforce Scholarship Program to attend the course. The next funding round of applications open on Monday 17 February through the Rural Health West website.
About Optimise Rehab:
Optimise Rehab is run by Dr Merv Travers PhD. Merv is a Senior Research Scholar working in the area of low back pain, tendon pain and exercise rehabilitation at the School of Physiotherapy, The University of Notre Dame Australia. He completed his PhD at Curtin University where he also maintains an Adjunct Research Fellow role. His teaching areas include anatomy, pain science and exercise rehabilitation. He has a Masters of Manipulative Therapy and is a qualified strength & conditioning coach (Australian Strength and Conditioning Association - Level 2). Mervyn’s clinical background includes working in professional rugby union and he provides clinical consultation for complex musculoskeletal conditions.
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