MDT and the Management of Pain Workshop (Advanced Online Course)

MDT and the Management of Pain Workshop (Advanced Online Course)

10 May 2025

Wellington

Jane Borgehammar and Melissa Kolski from the USA will be conducting ‘MDT Management of Chronic Pain’ masterclass, involving a one day ONLINE teaching, with pre course learning. Please note this Education Update is for those who have completed a minimum of Part C of the McKenzie Institute education program.

Course Overview

There are several different pain classifications in practice based on expert opinion.  These systems need to be comprehensive enough to consider the physical and mental wellbeing of the individual and comprehensive of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF).  Signs and symptoms help to identify and classify individuals in pain to provide guidance regarding treatment expectations and interventions.  This course will review pain classification systems in practice, explore how Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy utilizes these concepts and how clinicians can effectively manage the classification of Chronic Pain Syndrome.

Objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Discuss current research and trends in identification of pain mechanisms in subgroupings of nociception, peripheral neuropathic and nociplastic changes.
• Identify the history and examination findings from an MDT exam that result in MDT classification of Chronic Pain Syndrome
• Describe psychosocial considerations for persons living with persistent pain.
• Demonstrate the ability to problem solve strategies for patients with various pain behaviors and psychosocial considerations
• Evaluate the evidence and apply appropriate screening tools to identify strategies for the patient with persistent pain.
• Theorize how objective patient findings could inform clinical management of individuals with symptoms of persistent pain.

Pre-requisites

Clinicians who have undertaken a minimum of Part C of the MDT educational program.

7 hours of pre reading to be completed prior to the commencement of the course.

Modules

The student will accomplish these objectives by achieving competency in the following topics:

• Pain Processing
• Therapeutic Alliance
• Cognitive and Emotional Factors
• Comorbidities and Environment (Personal & Contextual Factors)
• Autonomic System
• Graded Motor Imagery
• Graded Exposure
• Graded Activity
• Follow up and Goal Setting