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Western Montana Pain Symposium

Western Montana Pain Symposium Treating Persistent Pain Does Not Need to Be Painful—Improving Outcomes through Pain Education Nora Stern, PT, MS PT Providence Persistent Pain Project Program Manager Portland, Oregon. Conflict of Interest Disclosure Nora Stern, PT, MS, PT.

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Western Montana Pain Symposium

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  1. Western Montana Pain Symposium Treating Persistent Pain Does Not Need to Be Painful—Improving Outcomes through Pain Education Nora Stern, PT, MS PT Providence Persistent Pain Project Program Manager Portland, Oregon

  2. Conflict of Interest Disclosure Nora Stern, PT, MS, PT Has no real or apparent conflicts of interest to report.

  3. Objectives • Understand pain as an output of the nervous system • Evaluate clinical decision-making reflecting this understanding • Understand role of pain education and team based care in treatment of persistent pain

  4. What is the purpose of pain? • Pain is a protector • When you have persistent pain, beyond tissue healing, what is the pain protecting you from?

  5. Previous model

  6. Current Model– CHAOTIC

  7. Pain and the Brain Central Sensitization

  8. From Nocioceptive Input to Processing to Output

  9. Changes that occur with persistent pain

  10. Peripheral Sensitization: Elevation of resting state of neuron

  11. Nocioceptive Input Travels Up Spinothalamic Tract to Brain

  12. Brain functions

  13. Central Nervous System Wetware: - Amino acids, peptides, amines, all play a role in excitation or inhibition Hardware: • Neurons • Glia

  14. Brain centers for pain neuromatrix • Thalamus and Hypothalamus: stress response, autonomic regulation, motivation • Amygdala: fear, fear conditioning, addiction: If you know it’s going to hurt, then it’s going to hurt! • Sensory homunculus: tells us where sensation occurs. This can become blurred and “smudged” with changes in movement habits • Primary motor cortex: organizes and prepares for movement. Affected by fear of hurting oneself • Prefrontal and frontal cortex: makes sense out of the situation. Decides if the danger signal is a real threat • Cingulate cortex: concentration and focus, affected by attention to pain • Cerebellum: Perception of movement • Hippocampus: memory, spatial cognition, fear conditioning

  15. Brain functions for pain neuromatrix • Thinking: looking for answers Feeling: Fear avoidance, catastrophizing • Sensing: sensory homuncular organization, kinesthetic sense • Acting/moving: motor planning, anticipating pain with motion

  16. Mirror neuron function25% of our brain’s neurons may have a mirror capacity

  17. Output 1. Pain sensation as an output: assigned to the virtual body representation 2. Message to Autonomic Nervous System  Neuroendocrine System  Neuroimmune System

  18. Fight or flight response left turned on

  19. Stress/pain relationship with CRPS Allen, R, et al, Phys Ther, 2011 4:32-42

  20. Allen, R, et al, Phys Ther, 2011 4:32-42

  21. PARADIGM SHIFT • PAIN ≠ HARM • PAIN IS AN OUTPUT FROM THE BRAIN • ALL PAIN IS REAL PAIN • NOCICEPTION IS NEITHER NECESSARY NOR SUFFICIENT FOR PAIN adapted from material from G. Lorimer Moseley: Understand and Explain Pain course material 2010

  22. Understanding and Treating Persistent Pain VS. Managing and Coping with Chronic Pain Reference: “Relieving Pain in America: A Blueprint for Transforming Prevention, Care, Education and Research,” Board of Health Science Policy, Institute of Medicine, of National Academies, Washington 2011

  23. Pain Education: A treatment intervention

  24. Pain Education As A Treatment Intervention Decrease in pain rating (Van Oosterwijck et al 2011, Meeus et al, 2010, Ryan et al, 2010, Moseley, 2002, 2003, 2004) Decrease in fear of reinjury (Van Oosterwijck et al 2011, Moseley, 2002, 2003) Decrease in pain catastrophizing (Meeus et al, Moseley 2004) Increase in function(Van Oosterwijck et al 2011, Moseley, 2002, 2003

  25. Pain education as treatment Brain activity: persistent pain patient, baseline S/P 2 weeks practice of abdominal strengthening Brain activity same day, following pain education Moseley, G. L, “Brain activity before and after 1:1 pain education with physiotherapist.” Australian Journal of Physiotherapy 2005 Vol. 51

  26. Outcomes After Pain Education in ED Oliviera et al • Spine • Volume 31 • Number 15 • 2006

  27. PersistentPain Project Patient Outcomes

  28. Components of pain education: Providence Oregon Phrasing • All providers able to explain pain as an output • Provider training: rehab, primary care • Upcoming: inpatient • Written material • Video • Patient classes

  29. Patient access online

  30. Providence Pain Video http://providenceoregon.org/video/pain

  31. How do we do better? • Speak the same language and explain pain • Address the issues that are causing central sensitization in primary care, behavioral health, rehab, complementary medicine • Team care: medical home • Advocate for adequate coverage for high risk patients

  32. Fighting central sensitizationOne patient at a time

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