Momentum Advances in Pain Neuroscience

Welcome to this Momentum CPD session – Advances in Pain Neuroscience. 3 CEUs

Happy new year to you and we trust it will be a good year. This first session is a deviation from the live sessions, which will resume in February.

You have until the end of 2023 to complete this course, but try and watch it now in January. Your CPD points will be uploaded to the HPCSA at the end of the month that you complete the course.  You can watch the video in parts or all at once.  If watching in parts, try and watch in hour sessions as this is where there was a break in the presentation and a new section is started.

This course consists of a three-hour video of Dr Ravindran’s presentation on “Advances in Pain Neuroscience” and a clinical case study and MDT case discussion facilitated by expert OTs in the field of Chronic Pain from The OT Pain Management Group.

About the presenter:

Dr Deepak Ravindran is a boundary spanning ‘upstreamist’ with a trauma informed approach to pain practice. He has over 20 years of experience in Pain Management and is Clinical Lead in Pain Medicine at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, Berkshire, UK. He is one of the very few consultants in the UK who holds certification in musculoskeletal medicine, pain medicine and is board certified in lifestyle medicine. He lectures nationally and internationally on issues in Longcovid, Pain Medicine and Trauma informed practice and has regularly spoken to the media and television on these issues.

He has had a longstanding interest in Fibromyalgia and has worked with FMA UK and also the local FM patient support group. He secured funding and organised 2 awareness days for FM in Berkshire in 2018 and 2019.  He helped establish the community pain service in Berkshire (IPASS) in 2015 and more recently helped set up and operationalise the Berkshire Longcovid Integrated Service (BLIS) in 2020. He initiated Pain research in his department and is an active part of the Pain Research Network at the University of Reading. He has been recently completed his degree in Management at the Henley Business School and was awarded the National Apprentice of the Year by CMI in 2021.

He is part of the scientific advisory board at Curable, MyPain and also part of the Footsteps Festival team and a FlippinPain Friend. He is an advisor to UK’s first Online Pain Clinic  The Leva Clinic.

 

Dr Deepak Ravindran is the author of Amazon Best Seller “The Pain-Free Mindset” released in 2021. This book is aimed at patients suffering with pain, but also immensely useful for all healthcare professionals in understanding all the recent advances around pain management in a trauma informed manner.

 

The course outline is:

1. The biopsychosocial nature of pain
   1. Anatomy and physiology of pain
   2. Nociceptive, Nociplastic and Neuropathic pain.
2. Intervention strategies based on new pain science
   1. Overview of evidence-based interventions using the Mindset model.
   2. Programmes and flare up planning
   3. Matching the programme to the client and their stage of acceptance
   4. Resources, research and reading recommendations
3. Case Discussion

 

Course Procedure:

1. Watch the session, it can be all at once or in parts. (Please note that unfortuately the video will not save your progress, so please note were you ended, so you can skip to the correct place in the video.)
2. If you have questions or commments – please write them in the reply box below. These can be used to faccilitate further discussion or a follow up session. You can also comment on a comment that has been made by a colleauge.
3. Please remember to return to this course page after the course to complete the course evaluation , so that we can monitor the quality of this CPD activity. This is an HCPSA requirement.

 

Accessing your CPD certificate

Once you have completed the evaluation and marked all tasks complete, you will be able to access your CEU certificate on your My Courses Profile.

According to the new HPCSA requirements – we will submit your course attendance information directly to HPCSA. You no longer need to do this. We do just recommend that you keep a copy of your certificate for your own records. Your course completion certificates will be stored on your profile indefinitely to ensure you still have a record of your CPD activities should you encounter any problems.

Please also ensure that your HPCSA number is correctly entered in your “My Account” details, with no spaces between digits. Incorrect HPCSA numbers will not upload to their system and you will need to submit your certificates manually.

Please be in touch should you have any questions or comments – lauren.michell@theotlink.com

We hope you enjoy this course and look forward to your questions and feedback.

Kind regards

Lauren Michell