Session outline
Multidisciplinary and Multimodal Pain Management presents patients and physicians with a variety of possible treatments for chronic non-malignant pain – interventional, medical, psychological and physical. The workshop will focus on patient selection for particular modalities of therapy and present the ways to identify the patients most likely to respond well to particular treatments. There are also patient characteristics and pain syndromes that make some treatments more likely to cause harm or risk safety. Speakers will focus on methods of analysing characteristics of patients and their pain syndromes so that they can be matched to treatments with the highest likelihood of improved pain management. Patient selection processes for interventional approaches, on line therapies, CBT/activity courses and medications will all be discussed by clinical researchers with expertise in their delivery.
Learning outcomes
- Attendees will gather an understanding the ways to analyse patient history and examination in order to select patients for particular interventions in pain management.
- Attendees will gather an understanding the ways to analyse patient history and examination in order to select patients for online pain management programs.
- Attendees will gather an understanding the ways to analyse patient history and examination in order to select patients for CBT/activity based group courses in pain management
- Attendees will gather an understanding the ways to analyse patient history and examination in order to select patients for particular medications.
- Attendees will gather an understanding of risks and likelihoods for poor outcomes when patients embark on treatments for which they are not ideal.
Target audience
We expect that this short workshop will be attractive to
- Rehabilitation Physicians
- Pain Physicians
- Allied health – psychologists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists
- Medical practitioners
- Students
- Trainees
- Nursing staff
- Administrators
- Policy makers
- Insurers
