This webinar - held on 16 January 2024 - was produced by the International Association for the Study of Pain's Musculoskeletal Pain Special Interest Group.
IASP's Musculoskeletal Pain Special Interest Group seeks to increase awareness of - and provide a forum to discuss - the interaction between muscle pain and motor control systems as it relates to musculoskeletal pain, as well as novel treatment opportunities. Two such treatment opportunities are pain reprocessing therapy (PRT) and cognitive functional therapy (CFT).
PRT uses techniques such as pain re-education, somatic tracking, and positive psychology to help individuals change their perception of pain (i.e., PRT helps to teach people to perceive pain signals sent to the brain as "less threatening"). CFT is a physiotherapy-led intervention that is psychologically informed and directed at the biopsychosocial nature of pain (i.e., CFT uses a "clinical reasoning framework" to identify modifiable targets for management based on careful listening to the individual's story and examining their behavioral responses to pain - promoting self-management).
This webinar provided valuable insights on PRT and CFT for the management of chronic low back pain, and included a discussion on possible differences and similarities between these two effective treatments.
Participants included:
-- Tor Wager, PhD, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA
-- Peter O'Sullivan, DPT, PhD, FACP, Curtin University, Perth, Australia
-- Henrik Bjarke Vaegter, PhD, University of Southern Denmark (moderator)
IASP's Musculoskeletal Pain Special Interest Group seeks to increase awareness of - and provide a forum to discuss - the interaction between muscle pain and motor control systems as it relates to musculoskeletal pain, as well as novel treatment opportunities. Two such treatment opportunities are pain reprocessing therapy (PRT) and cognitive functional therapy (CFT).
PRT uses techniques such as pain re-education, somatic tracking, and positive psychology to help individuals change their perception of pain (i.e., PRT helps to teach people to perceive pain signals sent to the brain as "less threatening"). CFT is a physiotherapy-led intervention that is psychologically informed and directed at the biopsychosocial nature of pain (i.e., CFT uses a "clinical reasoning framework" to identify modifiable targets for management based on careful listening to the individual's story and examining their behavioral responses to pain - promoting self-management).
This webinar provided valuable insights on PRT and CFT for the management of chronic low back pain, and included a discussion on possible differences and similarities between these two effective treatments.
Participants included:
-- Tor Wager, PhD, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA
-- Peter O'Sullivan, DPT, PhD, FACP, Curtin University, Perth, Australia
-- Henrik Bjarke Vaegter, PhD, University of Southern Denmark (moderator)
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