Lorimer is speaking at APTA and needs your help!!!!

The American Physical Therapy Association APTA combined sections meeting is in February 2010 – that is next month!  This is a big meeting and a great opportunity to spread the word – ‘go forth and biologise!’  I have been invited by the Women’s Health Section to give a pre-congress course on the Tues and Wed before the meeting AND to give a 2-3 hour lecture as part of the meeting.  Everyone at the APTA CSM is allowed to come, so, obviously, I want them to.  I have been warned to not have great expectations, so, obviously, now I want the room to be full – chock-a-block.  However, I have now had a quick squiz at the website and it is clear to me that, unless you were looking for it, the 3 hour lecture on Pain and the Brain (the Body in Mind) would not be in your sights.  So, I would like to let as many people as possible know about it.  If you know someone who is going, or know someone who might know someone who is going, tell them this:  ”Go to Lorimer’s talk at the APTA combined sections meeting on Friday February 19th, 8 am!!!” Go on – pass it on…..

Here are the details:

Pain and the Brain (the body in mind).

Sponsored by: Women’s Health

Friday, February 19
8:00 AM – 11:00 AM    (Course Level – Multiple Level) - 0.300 CEUs

This lecture focuses on recent advances in our understanding of how pain is produced by the human brain, how the brain changes when pain persists and how this might become part of the problem for people with persistent pain. The lecture works from theoretic models to cross sectional studies and finally clinical trials and pragmatic recommendations for clinical practice. This lecture is appropriate for PT’s working with people in pain, including orthopaedic, women’s health and neurological PT. Upon completion of this course, you’ll be able to: 1) understand the ubiquitous role of the brain in pain. 2) Explain how pain is an output of the human brain that depends upon the perceived threat to body tissue. 3) Describe that the evaluation of threat to body tissue is an unconscious process that occurs upstream of pain. 4) Describe the way the brain changes when pain persists and the evidence that brain changes contribute to pain. 5) Explore new avenues for treatment by which the brain changes can be corrected. 6) Assess the current state of the evidence regarding these new treatments.

Speaker: Lorimer Moseley, PhD, BAPPSC (PHTY) (HONS) – Sydney, New South Wales