The EIM pain science team published a study in the The Clinical Journal of Pain that tracked a large group of health care providers from the Veterans Affairs for one year.

Here are some of the key takeaways:

•  Interdisciplinary pain neuroscience education was taught to a large, interdisciplinary group of health care providers that included physical therapists, occupational therapists, physicians, nurses, psychologists, and others.
• Some providers received pain neuroscience education (PNE) in person and others received the education remotely via live-stream. Both groups had increased knowledge and positive attitudes, showing that PNE can be scaled via telehealth.
• One year later – PNE resulted in self-reported positive changes in their treatment of people in pain, especially chronic pain.

You can read the full paper here, or access it online here.

Louw, et al. “Interdisciplinary Pain Neuroscience Continuing Education in the Veterans Affairs, Live Training and Live-Stream With 1-Year Follow-up.” The Clinical Journal of Pain: November 2019 – Volume 35 – Issue 11 – p 901-907 doi: 10.1097/AJP.0000000000000756