Palmer CE 2nd Site

Persistent Pain: Why Isn't this Getting any Better?


Cost: $48.00
State Approvals
Dr. Kevin Percuoco presents this 2-hour class on pain classifications and pain management. This course will provide an understanding of several types of pain based off the clinical history and various signs and symptoms. Dr. Percuoco will provide a better understanding of what it means to have persistent pain and how this influences people’s behavior. Lastly, this course will introduce and outline a patient-centered approach that has provisional support for caring for people with persistent pain.

 

 

Module 1
  • BiomedBiopsychosocial Model of Pain
  • An Introduction and evidence update of the diagnostic utility of common diagnostic tools and their poor reliability and uncertainty in identifying the cause of low back pain
  • Pain-based classifications
  • Quiz

 

 

Module 2
  • Nociceptive Pain
  • Nociception Neurophysiology
  • Signs and Symptoms
  • Quiz

 

 

Module 3
  • Neuropathic pain neurophysiology
  • Objective findings
  • Subjective findings
  • Quiz

 

 

Module 4
  • Acute pain and chronic disabling pain
  • Differential diagnosis
  • Nociplastic pain
  • Central sensitization neurophysiology
  • Nociplastic diagnostic criteria
  • Quiz

 

 

Module 5
  • Rights and obligations of the sick 
  • Illness behavior
  • General practioner response
  • Recovery from the patient's perspective 

 

 

Module 6
  • Cognitive function therapy
    • Description
    • Working with the patient
  • Review of clinical trial with CFT
  • Quiz

 

 

Module 7
  • Clinical case
    • History
    • Oblective findings
    • Treatment/Care 
    • Outcome measures
  • Quiz

 

 

Speaker(s)/Author(s)

Kevin Percuoco, D.C., Cert. MDT

Release Date: Jan 1, 2024
Course Expiration Date: Jan 31, 2025

 

 

  • Each module contains a video presentation and a short quiz.  You must view the video prior to taking the quiz. 
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