2 Videos
3 Ceu's Package, Dr Heidi Haavik - PhD, PG Dip (Science), BSc (Chiro), BSc (Science)
4 hrs.
These videos will cover the latest scientific understanding about pain, and how the feeling of pain is always created in the brain, due to either tissue damage, or even just the potential for tissue damage. The latest science tells us that pain is created in the brain to warn us about danger. However, this system can go wrong due to maladaptive neural plasticity and cause chronic pain. Dr Heidi will also discuss how pain can change and adapt over time depending on the persons experiences.
We now know that for a lot of chronic pain there may no longer be much tissue damage present at all it can become a learnt problem within the brain itself. Physiological and psychological stress also plays a major role in this maladaptive process, and Dr Heidi will cover this as well. She will also cover the latest scientific understanding about the function of the spine and its impact on brain function. The way the brain controls spinal movement is altered by spinal injury, and this changes over time. Such spinal movement patterns are known to play a vital role in how spinal pain becomes a chronic problem.
Dr Heidi will also, focus on the mechanisms of manual therapist, based on the latest relevant scientific research studies, and how this is likely altering the way a person's brain is feeling pain, and how the brain controls spinal movement patterns. The new basic science research tells a story that is similar to the old historic theories about the joint lesion and mechanism of manual therapist care, but with a subtle and very important twist to it.
We use to think we were fixing problems locally in the spine, when it now turns out we are more likely to be fixing problems at the level of the brain, and here turning down or switching off the sensation of pain directly in the brain, in addition to improving the way the brain controls spinal movement patterns (improving spinal function).
Dr Heidi Haavik will also discuss what has been shown clearly in the literature to work when it comes to retraining the brain out of pain and give practical tips and advice on how best to train the pain out of the brain. Dr Heidi Haavik will clarify what we as manual therapists can and cannot claim to help you thrive in an evidence informed world.