An Intro to DTR - Creative Pain Care for HCPs & Movement Teachers

Overview:

Are you looking for new and effective ways to help those living with chronic pain?

When someone walks in with a complicated history, do you struggle to know where to start?

You are not alone. 

The Discover To Recover approach encourages curiosity over fear and gives patients the tools and strategies needed to learn from, rather than run from, their discomfort. 

Help your patients LIVE life with joy,  rather than just SURVIVE their pain.   

Research shows the benefits of helping people reconceptualize pain, but a person cannot simply think their way out of it.

Combining reconceptualization with an embodied, somatic approach using breath, awareness, mindfulness, regulation, and movement offers many doorways into the system.  

For someone living with chronic pain, their needs can change from one moment to the next. As practitioners, we need to have a wide range of tools to choose from so we can offer them what’s best at any given moment.  

A person lives in and with their bodies 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.  Teaching your patients to become their own best expert can help them move from fear to embracing activities, movement, and reengaging in life with curiosity and interest. 

Pain is changeable and everyone is capable of learning to work with their pain.  As a health care practitioner, movement teacher or bodyworker you are uniquely equipped to teach people the tools needed to start changing their relationship to pain and to change pain itself.
 

This Introductory Course Will Discuss:

• Compassion, rather than mechanical dysfunction, as the heart of your therapeutic choices
• How alleviation of suffering from chronic pain is about more than choosing the right technique or fixing broken parts, it’s about recognizing what IS working and how to expand on that
• Changing the focus from doing with external actions to deepening interoceptive and neuroceptive awareness in yourself as a gateway to expanding your ability to help others.
• Guiding your patients to use interoception and neuroception to engage with and influence their nervous system responses to ultimately increase resilience and choice
• How to adapt your interaction with patients recognizing that every aspect of a person’s life affects, and is affected by, living with pain
• Becoming equal partners with your patients and embracing therapeutic humility rather than the ‘power-over’ dynamic
• Active listening strategies to engage your patients’ social engagement system and create a safe space for them to share 

This Course Is Intended For:

• Health care practitioners, movement teachers, and bodyworkers ready to understand the science behind movement and pain and expand their approach to pain care in clinical practice and in studio
• Practitioners of all types—including DOs, ATs, PTs, OTs, MDs, RNs, psychologists, counselors, yoga and Pilates teachers, yoga therapists, bodyworkers, and fitness professionals interested in integrating creative pain care tools with their persistent pain population
• Health care practitioners, movement teachers, and bodyworkers who want a better understanding of pain and how to integrate various movement and mind/body practices
• Those interested in learning more about current pain care approaches but who do not necessarily work in an environment conducive to implementing the tools effectively so are searching for other HCP’s or programs to refer to
• People living with pain, who want to learn self-care practices, communicate better with their practitioners, and how to become their own best expert 
   

Upon Completion Of This Course, Participants Will:

• Have a deeper appreciation of the complexity, and paradoxically the simplicity, of chronic pain problems
• Have deepened their curiosity and thirst for more knowledge and skills in pain care
• Understand the importance of their own ability to ground and self-regulate to help their patients
• Implement compassion, co-regulation, and therapeutic alliance as part of their treatment strategy
• Treat chronic pain issues more effectively by taking the whole person into consideration
• Have a few quick and easy tools they can implement into their clinical practice immediately
• Get an understanding of how to blend breath, mindfulness, awareness, and movement practices with pain science education 

Research shows that patient outcomes are dependent on the quality of the relationship with the provider(s).

When someone lives with pain, every aspect of their life is affected.
Discover to Recover recognizes that what each person is living is unique to them. 
 It is our job as practitioners to meet each person where they are and arm ourselves with the knowledge and tools to help.

As our understanding of pain care continues to evolve, patients can only benefit from all of us coming together to co-create, share ideas and continuously push each other to do better.