Course Background informationPersistent pain issues? Anxiety? Reduced coordination? Persistently tight muscles? This course series can help you up-skill in how to deal with these effectively. Who is this course series for?
Suitable for musculoskeletal and chronic pain physiotherapists treating clients with persistent pain and recurrent injuries. |
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Background
As physiotherapists we aim to teach improved motor control and function to our patients. However clients with persistent pain problems and recurrent injuries don't always respond to even our best treatment efforts and this can be due to sensory processing deficits in the CNS. Sensory processing deficits may be present since childhood development or acquired through injury. For these people standard rehab may be enhanced with sensory processing training and primitive reflex inhibition.
People with persistent pain and recurrent injuries exhibit changes in the brain and central nervous system unlike people with first onset acute pain. Some of these changes in the brain relate to sensorimotor function, other changes are related to emotional function and they are interlinked. Normally the brain is continually being informed through the senses. This is part of sensorimotor function.
The brain must
Some people are also hypersensitive to sensory stimuli and develop nociplastic pain and anxiety. It is proposed that sensory sensitivity coupled with sensory processing disorders may be a significant cause of anxiety due to sensory overload. Sensory processing training and primitive reflex inhibition can help to organise the brain to minimise anxiety responses and reduce nociplastic pain.
Regardless of your experience level, this course series can help you professionally.
People with persistent pain and recurrent injuries exhibit changes in the brain and central nervous system unlike people with first onset acute pain. Some of these changes in the brain relate to sensorimotor function, other changes are related to emotional function and they are interlinked. Normally the brain is continually being informed through the senses. This is part of sensorimotor function.
The brain must
- Receive sensory and cognitive information
- Integrate multiple sources of information
- Interpret the information to make it meaningful
- Execute responses, even executing a pain response.
Some people are also hypersensitive to sensory stimuli and develop nociplastic pain and anxiety. It is proposed that sensory sensitivity coupled with sensory processing disorders may be a significant cause of anxiety due to sensory overload. Sensory processing training and primitive reflex inhibition can help to organise the brain to minimise anxiety responses and reduce nociplastic pain.
Regardless of your experience level, this course series can help you professionally.
Learning outcomes
After the courses you will be able to:
- Appreciate how sensorimotor problems including neurological soft signs affect movement and function.
- Assess and rehabilitate a selection of primitive reflexes and sensorimotor dysfunctions and recognize how they influence movement & cognitive function.
- Appreciate how sensory processing training and primitive reflex inhibition can be applied to pain disorders and motor control in musculoskeletal injury rehab
- Know how to progress the sensory integration rehab, or make it easier to find an appropriate starting point for rehab especially where there is sensory sensitivity.
- Apply your new strategies on Monday morning.
