Due to Covid-19, the 2021 San Diego Pain Summit has been moved online and is recognized as the 2021 SD Virtual Pain Summit.
Student discount and pain patient (non-clinicians) discounts available - $75 (students need proof of current training) - learn how here
Schedule for SD Virtual Pain Summit
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The SD Virtual Pain Summit is a three day event to help clinicians from multi-disciplinary backgrounds translate pain research into clinical practice.
View full speaker list, along with synopses and biographies.
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February 19-21, 2021, Online
This virtual conference consists of the following unique format to promote thoughtful conversations.
- On Feb. 11th, attendees get access to:
- All pre-recorded presentations
- During the presenter's scheduled time, attendees:
- will join in a Zoom link
- Engage with presenter about their talk
- "Interactive exploration hours" - these sessions are marked on the schedule
- No pre-recordings to watch
- After event is over, attendees will have:
- Indefinite access to all presenter's recordings
- Approved by the California Physical Therapy Association (CPTA) for 17.50 hours or 1.75 CEUs
- Not recorded
- Any of the discussions during Feb. 19-21
- Exclusive event! Only 150 'seats' to encourage participation
This intermediate program is a self study course consisting of pre-recorded presentations and live, in person discussions.
Objectives
- Identify the high co-occurrence of trauma and chronic pain in childhood and how the nature of a chronic pain problem can be in and of itself, traumatic.
- Analyze research using large-scale neural analysis to understand pain processing in the brain and spinal cord.
- Describe how incongruencies between verbal and nonverbal communication might be recognized, brought to conscious awareness, and explored further in clinical interactions to promote better care.
- Inspect the attention demanding aspects of pain—and more specifically, how this relates to the lived experience of pain and its possible role in developing hypervigilance and chronicity.
- Integrate strategies to overtly consider potential perpetuating and protective factors that may be influencing a young person’s pain experience.
- Distinguish a pain mechanism classification system to identify the operant mechanisms for acute injury to non-traumatic, recurring and episodic persistent symptoms.
Schedule
All dates/times are listed in Pacific Standard Time (PST) - use this time converter to check your time zone.
Friday Feb. 19
Morning
8 am - Jackie Walumbe, BSc, MSc - “Just get on with it”- an exploration of the ideological, interventional and experiential meanings of self-management of chronic pain"
8:45 am - end
8:45 am - 8:50 am - mindful movement break with Mari Hodges, Alexander technique specialist
9 am - Nathan Hutting, Ph.D. - "Do It Yourself (DIY): Self-management support"
9:45 am - end
9:45 am - 9:50 am - mindful movement break with Mari Hodges, Alexander technique specialist
10 am - Annie O’Conner, MSPT, OCS, Cert. MDT - "Pain Is Complex But It Doesn't Have To Be Complicated"
10:45 am - end
10:45 am - 10:50 am - mindful movement break with Mari Hodges, Alexander technique specialist
Afternoon
1 pm - Biafra Ahanonu, Ph.D. - "Illuminating neural circuit dynamics of pain processing with in vivo imaging and computational techniques"
1:45 pm - end
1:45 pm - 1:50 pm - mindful movement break with Mari Hodges, Alexander technique specialist
2 pm - Interactive exploration hour with Trevor Barker (Patient Perspective) - "Your SIM Bin, understanding and using DIM/SIM therapy to help your patients engage with self management" What Is DIM/SIM?
3 pm - 3:05 pm - mindful movement break with Mari Hodges, Alexander technique specialist
3: 15 pm - Blaise Doran, PT - "Managing persistent pain in young people: Assembling the physical, psychological, social through the philosophical"
4 pm - 4:04 pm - mindful movement break with Mari Hodges, Alexander technique specialist
Saturday Feb. 20th
Morning
8 am - Sheren Gaulbert - "What Is Really Being Communicated? Recognizing Incongruencies In Clinical Interactions"
8:45 am - end
8:45 am - 8:55 am - mindful movement break with Mari Hodges, Alexander technique specialist
9 am - Interactive exploration hour with Grainne Daniels, PT - "Through the looking glass- imagine a world where clinicians treat the patient, not the condition"
10 am - end
10 am - 10:05 am - mindful movement break with Mari Hodges, Alexander technique specialist
10:15 am - Keynote Melanie Noel, Ph.D., RPsych - "Trauma and Pain: An Inter-generational Problem"
11 am - end
11 am - 11:05 am - mindful movement break with Mari Hodges, Alexander technique specialist
Afternoon
1 pm - Linda Crawford, OTR/L, CDWF - "Do, Feel, Think--Humanizing the Pain Experience: An Occupational Therapy Perspective"
1:45 pm - end
1:45 pm - 1:50 pm - mindful movement break with Mari Hodges, Alexander technique specialist
2 pm - Michael Amato, PT - "Pain and Attention: Focusing on the Lived Body"
2:45 pm - end
2:45 pm - 2:50 pm - mindful movement break with Mari Hodges, Alexander technique specialist
3 pm - Paul McCambridge -"Implementation Of Clinical Guidelines - The Big Problem"
3:45 pm - end
3:45 pm - 3:50 pm - mindful movement break with Mari Hodges, Alexander technique specialist
Sunday Feb. 21st
Morning
8 am - Keynote John Launer, Ph.D. - "Conversations Inviting Change: Narrative-Based Practice in Health Care"
8:45 am - end
8:45 am - 8:50 am - mindful movement break with Mari Hodges, Alexander technique specialist
9 am - Interactive exploration hour with Laura Rathbone, PT - Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): Truth or Dare
10 am - end
10:15 am - 10:20 am - mindful movement break with Mari Hodges, Alexander technique specialist
10:30 am - Rachel Zoffness, Ph.D. - "CBT for Chronic Pain: Bridging the Gap between Medicine & Psychology"
11:15 am - end
11:15 am - 11:20 am - mindful movement break with Mari Hodges, Alexander technique specialist
Afternoon
1 pm - Richard McIlmoyle, DC - "Stop searching for the Sasquatch. Throwing time, money and effort on mechanistic predictors for responders to manipulation is a mythical journey."
1:45 pm - end
1:45 pm - 1:50 pm - mindful movement break with Mari Hodges, Alexander technique specialist
2 pm - Amy Eicher, BSED, MAR, PTA - "A Tale Of Two Stories, Our Needs & Their Needs: The Power Of Words & How We Affect Conditions For Healing In Chronic Pain Patients"
2:45 pm - end
2:45 pm - 2:50 pm - mindful movement break with Mari Hodges, Alexander technique specialist
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