Course Description:

How do you help someone who can’t tolerate touch or exercise due to pain? Diagnoses such as complex regional pain syndrome, fibromyalgia, long-Covid pain, and any other chronic pain are difficult to treat until you understand the pathophysiology that led to the condition. This understanding gives you a framework for how to evaluate these patients in ways they have never been tested before and develop a treatment plan. There are many treatment options available to us to help reduce pain that won’t cause a flare-up of symptoms. In this course, participants will learn how to evaluate central sensitivity, yellow flags, premotor pain, cortical smudging, motor drive, and carbon dioxide tolerance. Treatment includes graded motor imagery, cortical remapping, breathing protocols, motor drive retraining, and lifestyle changes.