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Pain Made Easy - Simple solutions and resources for persistent pain

Pain Made Easy - Simple solutions and resources for persistent pain

Pain Made Easy - Simple solutions and resources for persistent pain

CA$395.00
This course includes
3:06:00 of Course Material (View)
Patient Education (View)
Lifetime access after purchase
Certificate of completion
The instructors
Cory Choma (View bio)
Dave Zelibka (View bio)
This course was recorded in October 2022

Course Overview

The Pain Made Easy Certification Course consists of 10 easy-to-follow worksheets that guide you and your client through the recovery process. The course will provide a client-based communication template that improves client communication and retention. Using common language and visual aides, Pain Made Easy translates your complex advice into easily digestible concepts.  

The Pain Made Easy (PME) course was created to help you re-focus the care you provide for clients with stubborn or persistent symptoms. In these clients, a lack of progress, the persistence of symptoms, and the inability of medical imaging and interventions to demonstrate a structure at fault will create an environment of frustration, anxiety, passivity, and even mistrust of the medical process. With this in mind, we created this program to provide structure to many familiar strategies that you may already be using successfully with some of your clients.

Typical practitioner skills are often well placed in the acute to subacute phases of injury. They are directed at the 'bio' portion of the biopsychosocial model of pain. Many clients will transition from a primarily bio presentation toward a more 'psycho' and 'social' bias as symptoms persist. When this happens, there is a discretely different set of processes responsible for perpetuating their symptoms. Within this course, we will describe the client presentation you may observe during this transition and steps that you can take to avoid an ongoing perpetuation of symptoms.

You will likely see a familiar presentation in our symptom descriptions and your 'tough' clients. This course will challenge you to consider ways to change your approach when this occurs. The PME program is a client-specific, linearly progressive program utilizing client education sheets that you can use in clinic to provide a consistent strategy to direct your essential interventions.

What's Included

In each of the upcoming ten modules, you will find the following:
  • A Client Handout that is downloadable and printable is intended to be used with your clients.
  • An Instructional Points printable resource that emphasizes key talking points for each worksheet. This sheet functions as a 'cheat sheet' to cue you when you are educating your clients.
  • A Therapist Education Video discussing how and when to use the handout with your clients.
  • A Client Education Video that you may show to your clients to educate them about the contents of the handout.

 

Participant Experiences

“Pain Made Easy gives you the tools to better understand and treat your clients with persistent pain. It gives you a path on which to connect with these people and make positive changes in their lives with each session. You will leave this course feeling excited and capable to help this often challenging population.” - Alanna Scammell, Pelvic Physiotherapist, Winnipeg Manitoba

"You Immediately have things to bring to the clinic the next day. There is so much ready-to-use information"  -Fabi Moser, Sport Physiotherapist, Banff Alberta

"The course was great. I want to start using the concepts and sheets right away!!" - Scott McCubbings, Physiotherapist, Saskatoon Saskatchewan

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The instructors
Cory Choma
PT, CGIMS, Clinical Specialist (Pain)

Cory has been in clinical practice since 1996 and is a founding member of CSA Physiotherapy. He is one of only 4 Clinical Specialists in Pain Science in Canada and one of a handful of people awarded an ISTOP (Institute for the Study and Treatment of Pain) Honorary Fellowship. Cory has been teaching domestically and internationally since 2003 and is a senior instructor for the Continuing Professional Development branch of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia.

Cory and Dr. S. Goodman are contributing authors in the text ‘Trigger Point Dry Needling: An Evidenced and Clinical-Based Approach’ where they present a chapter on GunnIMS. In addition to his chronic pain management practice, Cory has great experience helping injured athletes return to sport.

To learn more about Cory and the Pain Made Easy program check out www.PainMadeEasy.com

Dave Zelibka

Dave has been involved in sports physiotherapy for over fifteen years and has worked with many of Canada's top track and field athletes. He has been a consultant for Athletics Canada at the last three Summer Olympic games. For the last ten years, Dave has also been the primary medical provider for Damian Warner, Olympic record holder in the decathlon.

He is a senior instructor for the Gunn IMS Certification program offered through the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. He has helped teach hundreds of medical doctors and physiotherapists to use dry needling safely and effectively for treating pain and optimizing physical function.

Dave is the co-founder of Pain Made Easy and the owner of Elevate Physiotherapy. Please visit www.elevatephysio.com to learn more.

Course Material included in this course
  • 1.0 The DVPRS
  • Intro
  • Handout
  • Instructional Points
  • Therapist Education Video
  • Client Education Video
  • 2.0 Movement Heals
  • Intro
  • Handout
  • Instructional Points
  • Therapist Education Video
  • Client Education Video
  • 3.0 Symptom Progression
  • Intro
  • Handout
  • Instructional Points
  • Therapist Education Video
  • Client Education Video
  • 4.0 Inactivity vs. Overload
  • Intro
  • Handout
  • Instructional Points
  • Therapist Education Video
  • Client Education Video
  • 5.0 The 50:10 Rule
  • Intro
  • Handout
  • Instructional Points
  • Therapist Education Video
  • Client Education Video
  • 6.0 Seesaw Rule
  • Intro
  • Handout
  • Instructional Points
  • Therapist Education Video
  • Client Education Video
  • 7.0 Benefits of Activity and Exercise
  • Intro
  • Handout
  • Instructional Points
  • Therapist Education Video
  • Client Education Video
  • 8.0 Pills and Skills
  • Intro
  • Handout
  • Instructional Points
  • Therapist Education Video
  • Client Education Video
  • 9.0 Your Activity and Self Treatment Planner
  • Intro
  • Handout
  • Instructional Points
  • Therapist Education Video
  • Client Education Video
  • 10.0 Your Panic Plan
  • Intro
  • Handout
  • Instructional Points
  • Therapist Education Video
  • Client Education Video
  • Resources
  • All Client Handouts
Patient Education included in this course
  • 1.0 The DVPRS Client Education Video
  • 2.0 Movement Heals Client Education Video
  • 3.0 Symptom Progression Client Education Video
  • 4.0 Inactivity vs Overload Client Education Video
  • 5.0 50:10 Rule Client Education Video
  • 6.0 The SeeSaw Rule Client Education Video
  • 7.0 Benefits of Activity and Exercise Client Education Video
  • 8.0 Pills and Skills Client Education Video
  • 9.0 Activity Planner Client Education Video
  • 10.0 Your Panic Plan Client Education
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