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CHRONIC PAIN MANAGEMENT

Chronic pain management is a major and growing challenge for healthcare professionals, patients, and individuals. People with chronic pain face unique challenges in everyday life, including difficulty in maintaining positive relationships. Over the past decade, there is a sudden rise in the sufferers of chronic pain globally, due to the various factors associated with modern day life complexities, such as increased stress, anxiety and depression which in turn lead to decreased pain tolerance, increased pain sensitivity, overuse of medications, polypharmacy and other intricacies linked to the medications. It also reflects in to reduced work potential of individuals.

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In this program, the learner will acquire knowledge of neuroscientific and behavioural perspectives of chronic pain. This program will help health professionals to  develop advanced practice skills in the evaluation,  assessment and management of chronic pain conditions using the scientific and psychosocial approach. It will also train the learners to get familiar with  the techniques to help patients / clients to better manage their conditions. On completion of the program, the learners will be able to reduce emotional and physical sufferings of their patients / clients by helping them to increase their resilience before exposure to stressful situations. Learners will also gain knowledge about the fact that even the small  intervention can result in observable transformation for the chronic pain sufferers.