Clinicians are often frustrated by the persistence of pain despite their best efforts to alter it. When chronic pain persists, it is a challenge to change the protective behaviors that contribute to movement impairments and disability in patients with pain. Incorporating a wholistic approach may improve outcomes for people with pain. Knowing how to include alternative and complementary medicine approaches can lead to greater success in achieving positive functional outcomes for people in pain. Alternative interventions for pain management such as visualization, breathing, mindfulness meditation movement, and relaxation therapies can be a valuable addition to a program for pain management.
Course Content
Physiological aspects of pain, terminology, nociception and central pain processing, biomedical and biopsychosocial models of pain.
Research review of alternative pain approaches:
Discussion and demonstration of selected pain approaches, such as:
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| Course Manual_Shifting Pain with Wholistic Interventions: Exploring the Evidence (0.84 MB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| Course Powerpoint_Shifting Pain with Wholistic Interventions: Exploring the Evidence (0.58 MB) | Available after Purchase |
BETSY SHANDALOV, OTR/L, RYT, CYKT, has been an Occupational Therapist since 1992. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Occupational Therapy from Boston University. She has worked in adult acute care at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina. She also has worked in rehabilitation and community re-entry at Shepherd Center in Atlanta, Georgia, as a clinician, educator and supervisor. Ms. Shandalov has presented on multiple topics at the collegiate level to both undergraduate and graduate students in occupational therapy around the country. She moved to California and got her 200-hour adult yoga teacher training with a focus on Iyengar yoga. She also received her certification as a yoga kids teacher and trainer with Yoga Kids International. She now teaches Therapeutic Yoga to adults and kids in a variety of health care settings and treats people privately using yoga as her main therapeutic modality. She lectures at wellness events and promotes yoga as an untapped therapeutic modality in healing an existing injury and for injury prevention.
In her practice, Ms. Shandalov draws from yoga's ancient philosophy of incorporating body, mind, and spirit. She sees adults and kids with all ranges of diagnoses. Some are acutely ill and others have long standing disabilities or injuries. Ms. Shandalov uses her knowledge of western medicine to incorporate an integrative medicine approach. Her extensive knowledge of disease and disability in a variety of settings combines with her complementary yoga treatment to provide a new level of understanding of how the brain and the immune system can work together for natural and therapeutic healing.
Occupational Therapists, Occupational Therapy Assistants, Physical Therapist, Physical Therapist Assistants
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