The Neuroscience of Pain, the Brain, Athletes, and Sports Performance • Courses by EIM | Evidence In Motion

The Neuroscience of Pain, the Brain, Athletes, and Sports Performance

$109

Contact Hours: 1.75 hours

Length: Self-paced

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For: All Licensed Healthcare providers

This course is available as a standalone CE course or as an elective for our new Advanced Practice Certification.

Pain is common in athletes. Most therapeutic interventions focus on structural tissue-based issues in terms of tests and treatment. Pain, however, is far more complex. It is now well understood that the brain is extremely busy during a pain experience – the same brain that controls…sports performance.This lecture will update attendees on the latest neuroscience of pain, with an emphasis on structural and functional changes in the brain during a pain experience. Then, taking the knowledge of brain activation during a pain experience into consideration, various aspects of sports performance will be analyzed based on compelling new research: The brain activation between a novice and professional athlete is vastly different and how does pain impact this? Can the brain multitask?

A brain processing pain puts increased demand on the energy supply of the brain; motor learning is strengthened during sleep; modulating vision enhances sports performance; what is optimal arousal for the brain? This session is a MUST for anyone interested in the advances in sports performance and the brain. This session will also provide attendees evidence-based strategies to influence the brain in immediate take-home tests and treatments including laterality training, sensory discrimination, neuroscience education, graded motor imagery, mirror therapy, etc.

Course Outcomes

Upon completion of the course, the successful learner will be able to:

  • Describe how the brain processes pain
  • Explain how an athlete dealing with pain, ultimately utilizes areas of the brain associated with sports performance, thus impacting their recovery
  • Identify bio-psycho-social factors associated with the development of pain in athletes
  • Consider, based on the neuromatrix, graded motor imagery and pain neuroscience, how to optimally treat athletes in pain
  • Execute the information from the educational session into clinical practice

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