September 2022 Health Care Provider Newsletter |
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Long COVID and chronic pain
Join our free webinar on September 27, 2022
In our upcoming webinar, Dr. Ric Arseneau (Clinical Professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine at St. Paul's Hospital, Women’s Hospital, and University of British Columbia) will discuss long COVID and chronic pain. After attending this webinar, learners will be able to understand and describe the relationship between long COVID and chronic pain, myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia (FM), and related conditions.
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The psychology of pain: Evidence-based tools for health care providers
Join our free webinar on October 19, 2022
Understanding the psychological factors that influence pain can give us many more avenues for helping patients with chronic pain. In this presentation, registered clinical psychologist, Dr. Dayna Lee-Baggley, will review the latest evidence on the psychological factors that influence pain and evidence-based tools that health care providers can use to better support people with chronic pain.
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Chronic Pain Management for Manual Practitioners
Upcoming workshop: October 16-17, 2022
This workshop provides manual practitioners (including RMTs, kinesiologists, osteopathic practitioners, athletic therapists and physiotherapists) with an opportunity to learn how modifications to traditional massage therapy practices can improve health outcomes for people living with pain.
This workshop is offered online via Zoom. The workshop is broken up into sessions over a two-day period. Participants must attend both sessions in order to receive credit for this workshop.
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Pain BC's self-paced professional education |
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Pain Foundations
for Allied Health Providers
Pain Foundations for Allied Health Providers is an online course designed for health care providers to improve their understanding of chronic pain and how to address the challenges of pain assessment and treatment. Learners will develop a strong grounding in pain science to support further exploration. The course is free for health care providers in BC and offered at a modest cost for providers outside of BC.
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Pain Foundations
for Primary Care Providers
This practical, compact course allows physicians and nurse practitioners to develop clinically relevant approaches to chronic pain management, including non-pharmacological treatments and prescribing best practices. Learners will develop a strong grounding in pain science to support further exploration. The course is free for primary care providers in BC and offered at a modest cost for those outside of BC.
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Gentle Movement and Relaxation |
This course is designed to enable practitioners to lead their own movement and relaxation programs for people living with chronic pain. The course is free, online and self-paced. The course is currently available to BC health care providers only. |
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Pain BC offers various brochures outlining resources and services that are available for people in pain and their caregivers. Clinicians can order these brochures for their offices or waiting rooms free of charge through our online store or download digital copies.
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Gentle Movement @ Home recordings |
Guided movement and relaxation videos for people with pain
Gentle Movement @ Home videos provide guided movement and relaxation designed to help people with persistent pain learn to feel safe to move again. Sessions are led by physiotherapists and other therapeutic movement professionals and topics include breath awareness and regulation, body tension regulation, and movement and relaxation techniques in both seated and standing positions.
Health care providers can share all 37 video recordings with patients who would benefit from adding guided movement into their daily lives. All sessions are free to access on demand via our YouTube channel.
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Pain BC relies on the generosity of our donors to deliver our programs and services. We gratefully acknowledge that many of our programs and services receive partial financial support from the Province of British Columbia, including Coaching for Health, the Pain Support Line, Pain Support and Wellness Groups, our chronic pain management workshops for health care providers, Gentle Movement and Relaxation course, LivePlanBe, Making Sense of Pain, Pain Foundations, and the Pain Waves podcast. |
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Decolonizing and Indigenizing evidence-based medicine
Free virtual event on September 29, 2022
The Centre for Practice Excellence at the University of Toronto hosts a monthly Speaker Series on critical issues impacting the future of health care and pharmacy. It is open to students and practitioners working in the field of pharmacy. In next week's presentation, Dr. Jaris Swidrovich will summarize evidence-based medicine (EBM) through a decolonial and Indigenous lens; name and critically evaluate EBM regarding the knowledge system(s) that inform it; and describe intercultural counseling strategies that honour Indigenous medicines and practices that may or may not fall under Western EBM.
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THINC Implementation Science Team Grant
Applications close October 4, 2022
The Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis (IMHA) is supporting team grants relevant to the IMHA mandate, which includes pain. Two funding pools are available:
- $6,000,000 is available to fund three applications relevant to the care of patients covered within the IMHA mandate pool (co-funded with SPOR)
- $2,000,000 is available to fund one application relevant to the Health Services and Policy pool (co-funded with IHSPR and SPOR).
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WorkSafeBC and NAOEM conference for community physicians
Attend in-person or virtually on October 29, 2022
WorkSafeBC and the Northwest Association of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (NAOEM) are hosting a joint conference in Vancouver on October 29, 2022. In-person or virtual registration is available, and both registration types allow access to conference recordings after the event. The early bird pricing is $249 before September 28 and $279 after. The event is free for medical students and residents.
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Indigenous Disability and Wellness Gathering
In-person event: November 15-17, 2022
Hosted by the British Columbia Aboriginal Network on Disability Society (BCANDS), the 2022 Gathering will be held in Victoria, BC and on the ancestral lands of the Lekwungen People. The Gathering brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous governments, leadership, service providers, community members and others to learn, connect, and collaborate in addressing the unique barriers Indigenous peoples with disabilities face.
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Survey: LGBTQ2S-focused pain support group
Are you an LGBTQ2S person with pain or do you support clients who are? Please take a moment to fill out our short survey to help us determine whether there is a need for Pain BC to establish an LGBTQ2S-focused Pain Support and Wellness Group. The anonymous survey takes only seconds to complete.
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Study: Circadian rhythms and chronic pain
Some people have pain that changes throughout the day, while others have constant pain; some people’s pain has an impact on their mood and sleep, while others’ doesn’t. The CircaPain research team is studying how time of day impacts pain and wants to hear about people's unique experiences. This study is open to all adults who have had persistent pain for more than three months.
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Pain news and resources for practitioners |
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New mobile app will improve access to health records
The Health Gateway app allows you to easily view prescription medications, lab results, health visits and immunization records. It is available to download for free from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. You will need the BC Services Card app to register and log in.
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Virtual reality intervention reduces fear of movement for adults with low back pain
A novel, automated, virtual reality, psychological intervention for people with low back pain reduced fear of movement compared with sham placebo and standard care control.
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New tools aim to improve care for people experiencing substance use stigma
Pain BC is proud to have partnered with researchers at UBC and Western University to support their work to develop a suite of tools and strategies to ensure that people who experience substance use stigma can receive better care in the future. The EQUIP Equity Action Kit includes videos, tools, and self-directed e-learning modules on equity-oriented health care.
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