Welcome to the 2025 Persistent Pain Management Learning Series!
Advance your expertise in pain management with our comprehensive six-course series designed for physical therapy professionals. Choose to enroll in individual courses or complete the full series to earn a certificate, enhancing your clinical skills and patient care strategies.
The Individual Courses
Navigating Barriers, Disparities, and Trauma-Informed Care
In this two-part series, explore the systematic and individual challenges patients encounter in accessing persistent pain care, and how these barriers and disparities may impact your role as their practitioner. Learn about trauma-informed care at the healthcare systems level, exploring the public health sector of a patient's experience.
CEUs: 0.4 (4 contact hours)
Core Concepts for Effective Pain Management and Trauma-Informed Care from the Patient Perspective
Equip yourself with essential knowledge of pain mechanisms, the biopsychosocial framework, and trauma-informed care from the patient's perspective.
CEUs: 0.4 (4 contact hours)
Comprehensive Patient Evaluation for Pain Profiling and Clinical Decision-Making
Improve your assessment skills and learn about the latest developments in pain phenotyping to help identify patients using a treatment-based classification system.
CEUs: 0.6 (6 contact hours)
Psychologically Informed Strategies in Physical Therapy
Enhance your pain management skills with psychologically informed strategies, focusing on understanding pain as a multidimensional experience, effective communication, and integrating psychological approaches into clinical practice.
CEUs: 0.6 (6 contact hours)
Evidence-Based Interventions for Effective Care
Equip yourself with evidence-based interventions and strategies to enhance pain management, including graded motor imagery, manual therapy, exercise, and telehealth applications.
CEUs: 0.6 (6 contact hours)
Persistent Pain Management Across Diverse Patient Populations: Addressing Unique Needs and Considerations
Learn evidence-based pain management strategies for diverse populations, including pediatric patients, older adults, individuals with lower limb loss, and those with movement-evoked pain or injury-related fears. This course also covers pain management in the emergency department and explores complex patient case scenarios.
CEUs: 0.4 to 0.6 (4 to 6 contact hours)
Interested in Enrolling in All 6 Courses?
Explore our comprehensive 6-part series package, which includes:
- Course 1: Navigating Barriers, Disparities, and Trauma-Informed Care (0.4 CEU)
- Course 2: Core Concepts for Effective Management (0.4 CEU)
- Course 3: Comprehensive Patient Evaluation for Pain Profiling and Clinical Decision-Making (0.6 CEU)
- Course 4: Psychologically Informed Strategies in Physical Therapy (0.6 CEU)
- Course 5: Evidence-Based Interventions for Effective Care (0.6 CEU)
- Course 6: Addressing Unique Needs Across Diverse Patient Populations (0.4 to 0.6 CEU)
This series covers biopsychosocial models, psychological approaches, and practical skills in pain management.
Click on the course titles above for more details. (2.8 to 3.2 CEU = 28 to 32 contact hours).
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