Webinars
Pain Education Conference
Description
Multidisciplinary conference focusing on the area of chronic pain. Hear from experts in the areas of integrative medicine, mental health and physical therapy and their approaches to managing patients with chronic pain.
Registration includes both days. The conference will be recorded and available for purchase after the conclusion of the live event.
If you'd like to attend but can only make it to one day you can request a coupon code from APTA Wisconsin (aptawi@aptawi.org) to purchase the full two day recorded version and avoid paying a duplicate registration fee, once the recorded version is available.
Thursday, November 5, 2020
- 12:00pm - Kelly Ashbeck, PT, DPT, OCS
- A Historical and Sociological Overview of the Opioid Crisis
- This 2-hour course will give a historical and sociological overview of the Opioid Epidemic. This overview will extend back to the 19th century Opium Wars and the treatment of ethnic groups during the US drug wars. We will discuss the US healthcare system’s involvement in the current crisis as well as a sociological overview of the US economy and its relationship to not just the Opioid Epidemic but with diseases of despair as a whole. To truly take a bio-psycho-social approach to healthcare, we must understand the complexities of this ongoing issue.
- A Historical and Sociological Overview of the Opioid Crisis
- 2:00pm - Gina Bryan, DNP, MS, APNP, FAAN
- The Opioid Epidemic: Logistics, Legislation and Real Life
- The 3 main learning objectives for this topic are 1. Share the current opioid use data for the United States and Wisconsin; 2. Present data on race and the opioid epidemic; and 3. Discuss pain management and the opioid epidemic.
- The Opioid Epidemic: Logistics, Legislation and Real Life
Friday, November 6, 2020
- 12:00pm - Eric Rebne, PT, DPT, Pain Science Fellow-in-Training
- Assessing Pain: Humans are Not Numbers
- In order to effectively treat pain, we must be able to adequately assess it. Pain ratings and questionnaires can give valuable information but pain and human suffering is not sufficiently elucidated by these tools alone. In this course, we will discuss the significance of creating a solid therapeutic alliance and the role that trust plays in this process. In addition, we will consider the importance of evaluating psychosocial influences on our clients’ experiences of pain. If we listen carefully, our clients may tell us exactly how to treat them.
- Assessing Pain: Humans are Not Numbers
- 2:00pm - Linda Bluestein, MD
- Integrative Medicine
- In this course, integrative medicine options for the management of persistent pain will be covered. The focus will be on improving functional capacity and reducing chronic inflammation primarily utilizing opioid alternatives. This talk will also touch on how managing chronic inflammation may improve outcomes from COVID-19 patients.
- Integrative Medicine
About The Speaker(s)
Kelly Ashbeck, PT, DPT, OCS, is a physical therapist and a board certified orthopaedic specialist. He works in a private practice outpatient PT/OT multi-disciplinary clinic with a special interest in persistent pain. He assists in the Pain Education Module for the Specialized Physical Therapy Education orthopaedic residency program and is the Chair of the WPTA Opioid Abuse Task Force.
Linda Bluestein, MD, is a board-certified anesthesiologist, integrative medicine physician and former ballet dancer who specializes in treating dancers and other athletes at increased risk of hypermobility disorders and is the founder and host of the podcast, “Bendy Bodies with the Hypermobility MD”. Dr. Bluestein is at the forefront of research on pain, hypermobility and dance medicine. She completed her anesthesiology residency at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine after receiving her Medical Degree from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine and is a member of the International Association for Dance Medicine and Science, the Performing Arts Medicine Association, and the Resources Committee for the Dance Healthy Alliance of Canada. She also serves as an assistant professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Central Wisconsin where she is the course director for the RISHI Healer’s Art Program.
Gina Bryan, DNP, MS, APNP, FAAN, is a Clinical Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Nursing and a board-certified psychiatric advanced practice registered nurse. She teaches in the University of Wisconsin–Madison Schools of Nursing and Pharmacy. Dr. Bryan maintains an active clinical practice at Rock County Human Services, where she serves people who live with severe and persistent mental illness. She was appointed to the National Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine Committee to review the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act to inform Congress. Her scholarly and service interests include engagement in health policy to improve access to mental healthcare and treatment for opiate use disorder. Dr. Bryan earned her BSN, MS and DNP from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Eric Rebne, PT, DPT, TPS, CMTPT, Pain Science Fellow-in-Training, has been a Physical Therapist for twelve years. He currently works at Back-in-Action Rehabilitation, S.C., an outpatient orthopedic private practice. Eric received his Bachelor of Science Kinesiology-Movement Science in 2004, as well as his Master of Physical Therapy in 2007, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He completed his Doctor of Physical Therapy (Post-professional) degree from Evidence in Motion Institute of Health Professions in 2018. He is currently a Fellow-in-Training for Evidence in Motion’s Fellowship in Pain Sciences.
