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1-day workshop
Effective Pain Management
with Dr Grahame Brown
Increase your understanding of pain and learn powerful psychological and behavioural techniques to alleviate chronic pain, accelerate healing and improve quality of life
Course Factfile
Effective Pain Management
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Accredited CPD: 6 hours
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Length: 1 day (9.30am - 4.00pm GMT)
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Tutor: Dr. Grahame Brown
- Price: £198 per person
Price includes lunch, refreshments and course notes
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Fantastic opportunity to train with this specialist. Thoroughly enjoyed this workshop – the best I have attended...
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NB Live Online dates also available – click here >
Why you should attend
This in-person training day with Dr Grahame Brown, a leading pain and musculoskeletal medicine consultant, gives you important new information about how we experience pain, derived from the latest neuroscience, and a powerful range of psychological techniques for managing pain naturally, preventing it from escalating, speeding up healing and ultimately helping people enjoy a better quality of life again.
You will discover how people can be helped out of the vicious cycle of chronic pain and how, by working holistically through the bio-psycho-social model, suffering can be dramatically reduced. People suffering from mental health problems tend to experience more pain – and vice versa – so these are useful skills to have.
There is no need for prior medical knowledge to learn from and enjoy the day – you will leave with a much clearer understanding of what is going on in the mind/body system, what you can do to reduce suffering when pain persists and ways to prevent chronic ongoing pain from developing.
If you work with people suffering from pain at any stage (from recent onset, recurrent to persistent) or would like to find out how to successfully manage pain without medication, this is workshop could prove invaluable.
You will learn a wide variety of pain management techniques to help relieve pain and promote recovery – often in just one session. These can easily be incorporated into your work… What you will learn >
Chronic pain is any pain which lasts for more than three months; it is estimated that between 25–40% of our population suffer from persistent or chronic pain. The sociological and economic costs of this are enormous but it is in the personal human suffering involved – mental as well as physical – that the real costs should be measured. Many are desperate for effective help to relieve their pain and the associated effects, such as insomnia and depression.
Pain whatever the cause – back pain, migraine, arthritic pain, dental pain, irritable bowel (IBS), labour/menstrual pain, cancer pain, psychogenic pain, psychosomatic pain – can be truly incapacitating.
Join Dr Grahame Brown on this popular workshop to learn how you can help.
Dr Grahame Brown has a real gift for helping people heal themselves – I know: I’m one of them!
Christopher Buckley, Professor of Rheumatology, University of Birmingham
What will you learn
- The many myths about pain – and why some well-intentioned pain management techniques don’t work
- What the latest neuroscience tells us about how we experience pain
- What is happening in the mind/body system when we are in pain
- An understanding of what is going on when pain persists – and what you can do about it
- A road map for helping people out of the vicious cycle of chronic pain, or to stop it developing in the first place
- The confidence and skills to help patients suffering from persistent pain, whatever the cause – no need to feel ‘heart-sink’ with some patients anymore
- How to reduce the risk of chronic pain developing – prevention is better than cure – and ways to identify the factors that make it likely
- A range of psychological chronic pain management techniques to use with your patients or yourself
- The importance of the bio-psycho-social model in reducing pain and accelerating healing
- How to produce significant pain relief by changing the way people think about their pain – in minutes
- The value of pain displacement and how to use the brain’s ‘reality simulator’ (imagination)
- How to use guided imagery, relaxation and distraction to promote chronic pain relief, help with constant pain and promote healing
- Ways healthcare professionals can make their consultations more therapeutic
- How to avoid labelling patients’ pain as ‘purely psychological’
- And more…
You do not need to have prior medical knowledge to benefit from the day.
Course Programme
The ‘Effective Pain Management’ course starts at 9.30am and runs until 4.00pm.
Who is this workshop suitable for?
- Anyone who would like to understand more about their own experience of pain, or that of someone they care for, and what can be done to manage ongoing pain and alleviate suffering
- The course is also designed to enhance the skills and knowledge of health care professionals of any discipline who work on a regular or occasional basis with people in pain to improve outcomes, including: • doctors • surgeons • nurses • dentists • neurologists • osteopaths • chiropractors • palliative care workers • psychiatrists • midwives • physiotherapists
- It is perfect CPD – providing beneficial knowledge and skills – for: • occupational therapists • psychologists • health visitors • support/care workers • psychotherapists and counsellors
- If you personally experience persistent pain then you will gain much from the workshop but please be aware the programme is not designed to be a treatment day and the tutor will be unable to give opinions to individuals with pain problems unless (with consent) their problem can be discussed for the benefit of all participants.
Can’t make this date? Register your interest below and we’ll let you know when there’s another. Alternatively, take a look at the Live Online version to see if there’s a date that suits you.
This course has been independently assessed by the internationally recognised CPD Standards Office for 6 hours of CPD training.
On completion of this training you’ll receive CPD certificates from the College and the CPD Standards Office.
Register your interest – next date
If you can’t make this course date, please complete the form below and we’ll email you when another date becomes available. Alternatively, you might like to attend live online – view details.
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This course covered all aspects of the subject – biological, social and psychological. No aspect was neglected – incredibly helpful.
Civil Servant
Thoroughly enjoyed this course – the best I have attended. Fantastic to have the opportunity to train with this specialist.
Clinical Hypnotherapist
I’ve read the pain management book, but it was even better having Dr Brown himself – this is the best explanation I have heard and I will use this to explain pain to my patients in the future.
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A very engaging course taken by a highly experienced and interesting practitioner. We covered many aspects of the pain process with focus on practical and modifiable areas that could easily be incorporated into clinical practice to complement the scope of my work.
Very informative day of training and highly recommended to all working with patients in pain. Have had previous training in neuroscience for manual therapy and with NOI group on explaining pain. I found the training day brought all the most up-to-date knowledge together in a more comprehensive manner with more take-homes for immediate application. Using already on my patients.
This workshop exceeded my expectations! Grahame imparted his knowledge and experience in an engaging manner that made it an easy day to attend. I have tools and knowledge now that I gained from this workshop to help me work with my clients and on a personal level too. Thank you!
An excellent, high-quality course, with loads of valuable insights. A great pace, and a trainer that was evidently specialised, experienced and willing to share. Brilliant!
A very interesting and enlightening day, especially with regard to the mysteries of chronic pain and its link to past pain and emotional trauma. I was particularly interested in the information about the overuse and subsequent addiction to prescription medication, too, having been down this path myself many years ago. I feel Dr Brown’s passion there and can totally relate to what he was saying. I was also reminded of the power of the current benefit system when it comes to keeping people trapped in the pain and illness cycle. It causes so much internal conflict. Thank you so much, Grahame Brown, you’ve reignited my passion for helping to free people from their chronic pain. There’s always a better way than to simply medicate the masses and cause even more long-term problems. If you have chronic pain, or work with people who do, this course is well worth your time. So much to think about.
A really excellent course packed full of useful information and tips in easily understandable language. Grahame shared his wealth of experience and allowed us to add questions and stories of our own. I feel like I really learned so much from the day. I would thoroughly recommend this course to anyone with an interest in pain whether as a practitioner or as someone experiencing pain.
Great insight into the psychology and physiology of pain.
Full of very useful information and excellent insights into how and why persistent pain becomes established and continues. I now understand why I have persistent pain. This feels very empowering as (using this new knowledge and adapting it for me)I think I can design a plan to improve my situation. I have felt powerless and could feel hopefulness draining away but this has given me hope that things can get better.
Great course. Very informative and interesting. Dr Grahame Brown is very knowledgeable and easy to understand
The course was extremely informative and was delivered in a way which was easy to understand. It was brilliantly put together and kept everyone’s interest by including short video clips and by being interactive. Grahame Browne spoke from a place of experience and knowledge. I learned so much from the course which I know will help me to help others.
A fascinating course which challenges the conventional biomedical approach to chronic pain, and also challenges our biases and prejudices around the subject. HG and modern neuroscience have been on the same track on key distress areas for humans and I’ve learned valuable new assessment and intervention protocols built off the HG organising idea. APET and RIGAAR are nicely extended into an area that many clients can benefit from.
Very easy to understand – makes complete sense. Very well delivered. An excellent facilitator. The venue is easy to access and the room was comfortable. Lovely food ☺
Vital education for healthcare professionals, empowering and exciting. I look forward to putting it into practice and helping both myself and patients.
Thoroughly enjoyed the session and will take so much away with me – not only to enhance practice but also for self.
Excellent, full of information and very thought provoking.
Fantastic – I’ve learnt so much with such valuable learning. Grahame is great and so knowledgeable.
Everything made absolute sense – why did I not think of this before?! Frustrated I was not effectively able to support persons I visit (housebound) and now feel I can make a difference.
All concepts were explored in terms of how to best use with our patients – it was excellent, thought provoking and my ideas have been well and truly reframed. Absolutely brilliant!
Very useful – this workshop has hugely increased my confidence in helping with all sorts of pain.
All concepts were explored in terms of how to best use with our patients. It was excellent, thought provoking and my ideas have been well and truly reframed. Absolutely brilliant!
I feel genuinely hopeful for the first time in years that a life of chronic pain doesn’t have to be inevitable for me.
Fantastic course – fascinating. Really good trainer.
Thank you so much for such an enlightening day.
This course covered all aspects of the subject – biological, social and psychological. No aspect was neglected.
My understanding of pain is now much improved.
Thoroughly enjoyed this course – the best I have attended. Fantastic to have the opportunity to train with this specialist.
A refreshingly different approach to managing pain, moving away from the medical model.
Some really useful metaphors and expressions to use when explaining concept to patients and simple explanations that make sense. A great day!
Very useful, it was packed with so much information I can use in my practice.
Great explanation of the pain process between brain and body, and the different elements of helping a person from suffering pain to no/lesser pain within a holistic approach.
Learning how empowering patients to self help themselves can be paramount in their recovery/pain management was a particularly useful idea for me.
My back pain disappeared in the course! helped by using the HG approach in pain management.
Fantastic – I’ve learnt so much with such valuable learning. Grahame is great and so knowledgeable.
All the information was so useful and an eye-opener. Will be a huge help with the veterans I work with.
Although I’ve read the pain management book, having Dr Brown draw the diagram at the start of the day, I felt was the best explanation I had heard and I will use this to explain to my patients in the future.
I feel much more confident working with people with pain now.
Thank you so much for such an enlightening day. Learnt a lot.
Very interesting. Good supporting scientific evidence.
Excellent speaker, held my attention all day – and I’m leaving far more practically equipped.
Invaluable information – an empowering day.
Incredibly sensible and user friendly
Wonderful! Jam-packed with information, research and real-life cases.
Really helpful. A fascinating day – thank you!
Fantastic course – fascinating.
The day has been fascinating and enjoyable; I would like more time with complex patient presentations and the opportunity to work with an interdisciplinary team approach.
Excellent neuro-scientific explanation of persistent pain – great to have the opportunity to ask questions and learn from the tutor’s extensive knowledge and practical experience.
My understanding of pain is now much improved – thank you.
The whole day was helpful and useful! It was also a great refresher for HG, as almost everything could be applied to psychological as well as physical pain.