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Embodiment in Pain Science Education

With Martina Egan-Moog , Neil Pearson

Australia

November 9, 2024, 9:00 am - 12:30 pm (1 sessions)

Course Host: Fran Ammirato

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Description

Using the Body for Deeper Understanding
With Neil Pearson & Martina Egan

Embodied pain science education utilises the felt sense of the physical body to acquire and consolidate new understanding about pain and effective pain care. This involves learning through experience, with the body as a compelling storyteller. Embodied experiences focus on connecting to the felt sense of the body and using physical sensations to reinforce and enhance new conceptualisations of pain. Through repeated and guided physical practices, individuals become empowered to better discern and differentiate bodily sensations, enabling misconceptions about both pain and pain treatments to be challenged from within. Embodied pain science education refers to consciously working with the body to make difficult, complex, or intangible concepts easier to comprehend.

We experience ourselves and the world through our body. When pain persists, we encounter changes in how our body feels, changes in how it functions, and changes in what we feel capable of doing. These changes reinforce misconceptions about both pain and ourselves. Embodied pain science education aims to challenge these misconceptions, such as ‘I can’t do anything when I am in pain’, through lived experiences that foster trust and build self-efficacy. It can be harder to disagree with the felt experience that movement is not dangerous than with the same thought.

For some people and in certain situations, listening, reading, discussing, and reflecting are effective pathways towards reconceptualising pain and pain care. For others, learning in these ways is not enough. The tipping point that convinces someone that these new concepts about pain and effective pain care are real may occur through embodied education.

An embodied education draws on mind-body exercises, such as yoga or Feldenkrais, amongst others. These exercises are designed to increase a sense of safety both in the world and within ourselves by fostering greater awareness and accuracy of interoception, as well as by altering autonomic nervous system reactivity. With a reduced stress response in the body comes improved cognitive capacity and greater potential for learning to fully reconceptualise pain.

This course will offer a selection of mind-body techniques and practices to provide novel experiences related to the body, breathing, muscle tension, thoughts, and emotions. In particular, techniques that increase a sense of safety are used to shift perceptual processes, build affordances, and improve physiological self-regulation. You will practise each technique and learn how to integrate them into your pain care plan – both as educational strategies and as methods to directly impact the tissues of the body and its protective mechanisms.

Prerequisites

This course is designed for allied health professionals who have read Explain Pain or completed an Explain Pain course, and who are seeking more options when patients do not engage with current pain science education processes, or when individuals struggle to translate knowledge acquisition into behavioural change.

No prior knowledge or experience with mind-body techniques is required to complete the course or apply the embodied pain science education techniques presented. All the techniques offered are within the scope of practice of allied health professionals. Scripts will be provided for key embodied education techniques.

Objectives
  • Explain the principles of embodied education and interoception, highlighting their role as complementary approaches to pain science education.
  • Examine the key messages and overall intent behind pain science education.
  • Analyse embodied experiences that may hinder or support the reconceptualisation of pain.
  • Instruct participants in foundational breathing and mind-body techniques, including interoceptive guidelines during provocative movement, as part of embodied pain science education.
  • Demonstrate the application of these techniques through the use of a case study.

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Embodiment in Pain Science Education on November 9, 2024, 9:00 am - 12:30 pm

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Instructors

NOI Instructor, MSc, Post Grad Manip Ther

Languages: English/Deutsch, Regions: Australasia/Europe

Courses: Embodiment in Pain Science Education, Schmerzen Verstehen, Explain Pain Online Europe, Explain Pain (Schmerzen Verstehen) Online

Martina Egan-Moog

Martina gained her qualifications as a Physiotherapist in Germany. Working in sports and orthopaedic clinics in southern Germany after graduation led to an interest in Neurodynamics and on to further study with Martina completing a Postgraduate Diploma in Manipulative Therapy in 1996. Later, Martina completed a Masters by Science Degree at Curtin University in Perth, Australia, in 1999 focused on manual therapy concepts and their integration with pain science and psychology. This knowledge and experience was put into practice from 1999 to 2003 working in an interdisciplinary team in a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) programme for chronic pain patients at the Pain Management and Research Centre (PMRC), The University of Sydney.

Martina’s passion for pain neuroscience and application of pain management strategies led to the development of the course The Problem Pain Patient, which she taught for 10 years together with Max Zusman. Later, Martina was instrumental in setting up a specialised pain physiotherapy training through the German Pain Society. Based on the IASP Curriculum, this course was first piloted in 2014 and Martina remains committed to updating and improving the design and delivery of this training.

In 2004 Martina joined NOI to undertake the translation of Explain Pain into German – Schmerzen verstehen. In 2006 she started teaching a course by the same name, and since then has been responsible for updates to the course including the translation and integration of the Protectometer, as well as translating the Graded Motor Imagery course so that no valuable content will be lost in translation.

In 2013 it was time for Martina and her family to return Down Under where they continue to live in Melbourne. Martina presently works in an outpatient Pain Network Program for patients with persistent pain after work or traffic accidents (Precision Ascend) and in the Barbara Walker Centre for Pain Management at St. Vincent’s Hospital. She regularly tutors for Latrobe University on the Physiotherapy Sports/Musculoskeletal Masters Programme. In 2019 she was titled ‘Pain Physiotherapist’ by the Australian Physiotherapy Association.

Martina’s main interest is to bridge research findings from pain sciences and behavioural medicine to clinical practice and she continues to do this with her teaching in both German and English.


Durch Ihre manualtherapeutische Arbeit in Physiopraxen in Süddeutschland begann 1995 Martinas Interesse am Neurodynamischen Konzept. Ein Postgraduate Diploma in Manipulative Therapy (1996) und ein Masters by Science degree (1999) an der Curtin Universität in Perth, West Australien, sowie Forschung im Bereich der Schmerzphysiologie/Schmerzpsychologie ermöglichten Ihr sich in die Materie zu vertiefen.
Von 1999 bis 2003 hat Martina in einem Kognitiv-Verhaltenstherapeutischen Programm für chronische Schmerzpatienten am Pain Management and Research Centre der Universität Sydney gearbeitet woraus der Kurs ‘Interaktionen mit Problematischen Schmerzpatienten’ entstanden ist den sie über 10 Jahre lang zusammen mit Max Zusman (+2013) unterrichtet hat. Seit ihrer deutschen Uebersetzung des Buches ‘Explain Pain’ hat sie den Kurs ‘Schmerzen verstehen’ für den deutschsprachigen Raum mit entwickelt, den sie seit 2006 regelmässig unterrichtet. Zusätzlich engagiert sie sich bei NOI für die Übersetzung des ‘Protectometers’ und des ‘Graded Motor Imagery’ Programms.
2009 begann Ihre Curriculums- und später Dozententätigkeit in der seit 2014 bestehenden Weiterbildung zur ‘Speziellen Schmerzphysiotherapie’ der Deutschen Schmerzgesellschaft.
Nach 10 Jahren in Basel und München, zog es Martina und ihre Familie zurueck nach Down Under. Seitdem arbeitet Martina im ambulanten Schmerzmanagement Programm Precision Ascend in Melbourne, ausschliesslich mit Arbeits- und Verkehrsunfallpatienten, sowie im Zentrum für Schmerzmanagement am St. Vincent Krankenhaus (Barbara Walker Centre for Pain Management). Sie ist Tutorin für Schmerzwissenschaften an der Latrobe Universität. 2019 hat sie von der Australian Physiotherapy Association den Titel “APA titled Pain Physiotherapist” verliehen bekommen.
In ihrem Unterricht versucht Martina immer wieder eine Brücke zwischen Forschungsergebnisse aus den Schmerzwissenschaften und der klinischen Arbeit in multidisziplinären Teams und ambulanten Praxen zu schlagen.

Guest Speaker

English, Australia

Courses: Embodiment in Pain Science Education

Neil Pearson

PT, MSc(RHBS), BA-BPHE, C-IAYT, ERYT500

Neil is a guest speaker for Noigroup, presenting a new course in 2024 – Embodiment in Pain Science Education – created in collaboration with Noigroup instructor, Martina Egan.

As a physical therapist, yoga therapist and Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia, Neil teaches in the physiotherapy and pain medicine sub-specialty programs. He is also a consultant to the BC Medical Association, to Lifemark’s 300+ Canadian rehab clinics, and to Pain BC – Canada’s premier non-profit transforming the way pain is understood and treated. Neil is the founding chair of the Physiotherapy Pain Science Division in Canada, recipient of the Canadian Pain Society’s Excellence in Interprofessional Pain Education award, and faculty in four yoga therapist programs.

Neil has authored a patient education eBook Understand Pain Live Well Again (2008), a book chapter ‘Yoga Therapy’ in Thompson and Brooks, Integrative Pain Management (2016), numerous journal articles on yoga and pain including a recent white paper for the International Association of Yoga Therapists Yoga Therapy and Pain: How Yoga Therapy Serves in Comprehensive Integrative Pain Management, and How it Can Do More (2020), and co-authored/edited the textbook Yoga and Science in Pain Care: Treating the Person in Pain (2019).

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