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Date: Wednesday, November 5
Time: 5:00 PM PT / 6:00 PM MT / 7:00 PM CT / 8:00 PM ET
Deadline to register: Wednesday, November 5 at 8:00 PM ET
Presented by: Tara Packham, PhD, OTReg.(Ont)
Format: 45 minutes presentation, 15 minutes Q&A
Webinar Description:
This webinar will introduce the concepts of pain neuroscience education and review the current evidence supporting this approach in practice. The webinar will relate how adult learning principles can be embedded in pain neuroscience education and other forms of health teaching, with specific considerations for the hand therapy context. Resources for multi-modal pain neuroscience education will be provided.
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of this course, participants will:
- Define pain neuroscience education (PNE)
- Identify key principles of adult learning in health teaching from PNE
- Recognize patient groups in clinic that may benefit from PNE
- Adapt PNE principles to the hand therapy context
Attendees earn 1.0 contact hour or 0.10 CEUs
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Registration Fee:
Members $35
Student Members $20
Non-Members $55
Student Non-Members $30
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Tara Packham is an occupational therapist with over 25 years of clinical experience in hand and upper limb rehabilitation, and an assistant professor in the School of Rehabilitation Sciences (SRS) at McMaster University. Her clinical work was with an interdisciplinary team of occupational therapists and physiotherapists, plastics and orthopedic surgeons in the hand program of a regional trauma centre. Tara’s program of research focuses on assessing and addressing persistent pain, and continuing to advance the field of hand rehabilitation. She is passionate about moving evidence into practice, teaching knowledge translation in the SRS graduate program at McMaster.
Tara has published and presented extensively for both hand rehabilitation and pain management audiences on persistent pain conditions impacting the upper extremity. Her research spans development and evaluation of outcome measures, refining and testing interventions, and exploring the experiences of persons with health challenges accessing rehabilitation. She currently serves as Editor in Chief for Hand Therapy, and on the editorial boards of the Journal of Hand Therapy and Pain Medicine.