Videos from the one-day PHARMAC seminar on pain management held in Wellington, NZ, on 20 August 2014, by a range of health professionals.
Pain management – presentation series for clinicians
'Persistent pain, drugs and placebos, paediatric pain, elderly patients, psychology, and PT issues and OT and GMI (graded motor imagery) techniques. These presentations are provided for professional development purposes for the benefit of qualified health practitioners and should not be relied upon for any other purpose.'
1. Introduction/overview
(Dr Paul Hardy, PHARMAC, 2014)
2. Pain psychology
(John Moffat, Clinical Psychologist, PHARMAC, 2014)
3. Pain in the elderly
(Claire Atkins, PHARMAC, 2014)
4. Pain prescribing in elderly & paediatric patients
(Chris Jones, Pain Fellow, PHARMAC, 2014)
5. Pain in children
(Barbara Day, Senior Physiotherapist, PHARMAC, 2014)
6. Moving, breathing / stimulating
(Dagmar Hempel, Team Leader & Senior Physiotherapist, PHARMAC, 2014)
7. Pain OT, graded motor imagery
(Maria Polaczuk, Senior Occupational Therapist, PHARMAC, 2014)