Chronic Pain: The Invisible Epidemic
14/04/08 17:14
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"This program will explore these issues and examine the management approach to chronic pain."
Program objectives: At the end of this program viewers will be able to: Differentiate between chronic pain and acute pain, and how each differs in management. Understand the importance of education and life style change in successful management of chronic pain. Identify appropriate pharmacologic interventions in chronic pain management. Understand the impact of chronic pain on family and supporters. Presenters - Chair: Dr Norman Swan, Presenter of the Health Report on ABC Radio National. - Assoc. Professor Milton Cohen, Rheumatologist and Pain Physician at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, Fellow, Royal Australasian College of Physicians, and Dean, Faculty of Pain Medicine, Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists. - Assoc. Professor Michael Nicholas , Clinical Psychologist and Director of ADAPT, Pain Management & Research Institute, University of Sydney at Royal North Shore Hospital. - Mr David Butler, Physiotherapist, Director Neuro Orthopaedic Institute, SA. - Dr Chris Mitchell, Rural GP, Lennox Head NSW. - Ms Claire Johnson, Consumer, Uleybury SA.
"This program will explore these issues and examine the management approach to chronic pain."
Program objectives: At the end of this program viewers will be able to: Differentiate between chronic pain and acute pain, and how each differs in management. Understand the importance of education and life style change in successful management of chronic pain. Identify appropriate pharmacologic interventions in chronic pain management. Understand the impact of chronic pain on family and supporters. Presenters - Chair: Dr Norman Swan, Presenter of the Health Report on ABC Radio National. - Assoc. Professor Milton Cohen, Rheumatologist and Pain Physician at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, Fellow, Royal Australasian College of Physicians, and Dean, Faculty of Pain Medicine, Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists. - Assoc. Professor Michael Nicholas , Clinical Psychologist and Director of ADAPT, Pain Management & Research Institute, University of Sydney at Royal North Shore Hospital. - Mr David Butler, Physiotherapist, Director Neuro Orthopaedic Institute, SA. - Dr Chris Mitchell, Rural GP, Lennox Head NSW. - Ms Claire Johnson, Consumer, Uleybury SA.