PAIN REPROCESSING THERAPY - KANSAS

Course Description:

As physical and occupational therapists, we have embraced pain neuroscience education (PNE) as a powerful tool in shifting outdated, purely biomedical narratives around pain. Yet many patients with chronic pain continue to struggle despite strong education and well-designed exercise programs. This course explores how Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) builds on, and goes beyond, traditional PNE to more directly target the underlying neuroplastic changes in the brain and nervous system that drive chronic pain. In PRT, emphasis is placed on helping patients reinterpret pain sensations as non-dangerous while reducing fear and hypervigilance utilizing mindfulness techniques like somatic tracking and safety reappraisal to aid this shift from threat perception to safety. Attendees will learn clinical characteristics of neuroplastic pain to determine appropriate patients for PRT and will leave with a practical roadmap for implementing PRT principles into orthopedic and chronic pain care within the physical therapy setting. If you value pain…