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Research: Interdisciplinary Pain Neuroscience Continuing Education in the VA

February 4, 2020 • Pain Science • Becky Vogsland, Adriaan Louw

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

Becky Vogsland

Becky earned her Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from the University of Minnesota in 2007. Her clinical experience spans practice areas including traumatic brain injury and polytrauma, orthopedics, persistent/complex pain, and headaches. She is on faculty with Evidence In Motion’s Pain Division.  Becky is an active member of the APTA and has held positions within...

Adriaan Louw

Adriaan earned his undergraduate, master’s degree and PhD in physiotherapy from the University of Stellenbosch in Cape Town, South Africa. He is an adjunct faculty member at St. Ambrose University and the University of Nevada Las Vegas, teaching pain science. Adriaan has taught throughout the US and internationally for 25 years at numerous national and...

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