Understanding and Working with Pain

Description

Understanding and Working with Back Pain- 6 CECs with Peak Pilates MI, Karen Ingram

karen@barefootstudio.co.uk

Expand your teaching with the latest science on the mechanisms of pain and how it relates to movement.

Research proves that having a modern understanding of the biology of human pain, based on the latest science, is an essential first step to reducing chronic pain. Understanding pain biology changes the way you and your clients will think about pain. It makes working with people in pain less scary and improves your session planning. Surprisingly, pain is not all about tissue damage.

You will learn:

• How and why the body creates pain.
• How pain gets amplified given the right conditions, and how you can reverse this.
• About our amazing spines, our bioplastic brains & how graded movement helps heal back pain.

The spine is incredibly strong, tissues heal, muscles love to move. Our amazing brains are bioplastic, they learn and adapt. There is so much we can do to actively change pain levels in the people we teach Pilates to, and ultimately move them towards a pain free life.

The seminars each last 90 minutes and are delivered live by Karen Ingram via zoom. They are interactive and you will be given practical exercises you can use with your clients to start to make changes to their pain. The seminars are theory based yet interactive and will give you the tools to develop individualized graded movement programs and share target concepts about pain with your clients.

There are 3 sessions, taught over consecutive weeks, delivered as a series (you must sign up for all 3). A recording is available if you cannot make the live sessions.

For more information visit www.backhero.life

Why should I take this workshop?

Many people are drawn to Pilates because they have back or joint pain or weakness caused by injury. This seminar series will deepen your understanding of how the human body responds to injury, threat and the tools our brains use, like pain, muscle bracing, and inflammation. You will leave with practical ideas you can use in your sessions to change people’s pain experience and gain more confidence in working with people in pain.

Instructor Led Training

Learning Objectives

At the end of the workshop the attendee will:

1. Understand how the human bodies danger alarm system works and how the brain decides whether pain should be produced.

2. Understand how pain becomes amplified and may no longer reflect the condition of the tissues.

3. Be able to apply this pain science theory to develop graded movement programs and to use pain education tools.

Course Procedure

1. Enroll in the course.
2. View the course content.
3. Take the test. (You must score 80% to pass. If you do not pass, you may retake the test.)
4. Print your certificate of completion.

Course Content