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Pediatric Pain Changes the Brain: How Therapy Treatments Can Be More Successful (on demand)

$179.00

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Course Details

Instructors
Dr. Karen Pryor, Ph.D., PT, DPT, ND, CH, CFPS
International Speaker

Mica Foster, DC

Date
Thursday, May 27, 2021
8:45AM-3:15PM EST

Format

  • Webinar

6 contact hours
0.6 AOTA CEUs, 7.5 NBCOT PDUs, 7.2 NY PT CEUs

Cost
Special $179

Target Audience

OTs, OTAs, PTs, PTAs

Are your pediatric patients uncooperative or seem difficult to treat? They may be experiencing underlying pain that impairs their ability to assimilate stimulation and information properly. This course will provide practitioners with a deeper understanding of methods in recognizing, evaluating and treating their pediatric patient population. Attendees will be able to illustrate the somatosensory neurological networks, sensory fiber types and differentiate types of pain. Clinicians will learn about the pediatric pain experience and how pain information is received, processed, recorded and replayed. This course will provide techniques to treat acute injuries, chronic pain, birth trauma, tremors, high/low tone and pre-/postoperative pediatric patients. Clinicians will learn evidence-based manual therapy and neuroplasticity techniques to restore healthy neural network connections and achieve better outcomes for their patients. Case studies will demonstrate how to employ some these methods. The techniques employed in this course instruct therapists to treat the source of the challenges and promote more rapid recovery.

Downloads

on-demand Brochure- Pediatric Pain Changes the Brain

About the Instructor

Karen PryorKaren Pryor, PhD, PT, DPT, has a doctorate in physical therapy and has practiced for 40 years in the field. Involved with birth to three through early intervention since 1986, she developed techniques to be utilized in homes, childcare centers, and school systems to advance therapy programs in children.Read More

What Our Course Participants Say

"Allowed me to evaluate through a more wholistic approach" – JoAnn

"Reviewing how to identify pain for better outcomes through physical therapy" – Gina

"Speaking from experiences working with different clients" – Kyung

"Very comprehensive theory" – Leah

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this seminar the participant will be able to:

    1. Appraise and understand the subtle cues of pediatric pain and methods of pain assessment in children.
    2. Define and differentiate types of pain and complicating factors and the emotional-physiological response to
      injury.
    3. Appraise the embryological development of the somatosensory neural network. Illustrate the sensory receptors and neural pathways. Be able to explain pain gate theory and poly-vagal theory.
    4. Evaluate and employ an effective plan for your pediatric patients with acute, chronic, and post op pain as well as
      birth trauma.
    5. Employ skills and methods in manual therapy for effective management of pain and neurological-somatoemotional assimilation.
    6. Articulate specific exercises for pairing neurological connections for better outcomes and how to tonify the
      autonomic nervous system.
    7. Differentiate melodic tones and brain talk to promote ease, coherence, and entrainment.
    8. List additional methods of stress reduction that
      decrease pain and anxiety in your pediatric population breath, movement/ yoga and art/mandalas/ coloring.

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