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Chronic Pain: What's Between Your Ears Matters More Than You Might Think
Education
Vancouver, British Columbia
September 22, 2014 - September 23, 2014
http://www.painbc.ca/
Chronic Pain: What's Between Your Ears Matters More Than You Might Think- Pain BC

Monday, 22 September 2014 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (PDT)
Vancouver, BC

Chronic Pain: Why What's Between Your Ears Matters More Than You Might Think

Presented By: Tasha Stanton, BScPT, MScRS, PhD

University of South Australia

Summary: Chronic pain is an incredibly difficult condition to treat. How badly something hurts is often unrelated to how much damage has occurred in that body part. Surprisingly, pain can occur even when there is no detectable damage to the body part that hurts! Science now tells us that many things, not just body damage, can create the experience of pain.

New scienfic evidence suggests that how much threat or danger one thinks their body is in influences the amount of pain they experience. For example, being scared of re-injuring your back can influence the amount of pain felt during back movements. People with chronic pain often have changes in the way their painful body part feels to them - it might feel too big or too small. This, and other new research on chronic pain, suggests that the information that the brain gets about the body may be inaccurate and may lead us astray as we try to manage the pain.

This research shows that if we try to target the brain with our treatment, we may be able to alter pain.This presentation will discuss the role that the brain plays in the experience of pain as well, as the new and exciting "brain-focused" treatments for chronic pain.

Learning Objectives:

1. To understand the brain’s role in the experience of pain

2. To understand how the brain evaluates threatening or dangerous information and how this might influence pain

3. To appreciate the changes that occur in the brain (the nervous system) in people who have chronic pain

4. To have an increased understanding of how we might treat the brain to reduce pain.

Location:
Library Square Conference Centre @ Vancouver Public Library
Peter Kaye Meeting Room
350 West Georgia Street
Vancouver, BC V6B 6B1
Canada

Monday, 22 September 2014 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (PDT)

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