Sensorimotor Retraining for Persistent Pain and Sensory Loss

2-day course.
$645 incl GST.

Course Overview:

This 2 day practical course will give you the skills to recognise a predominantly sensory hypo-sensitive pain pattern, with large patches / areas of relative numbness, rather than predominantly allodynia and hypersensitivity. You will learn how to identify a Repressor coping style and what this might mean for their rehab tailoring. You will learn how to assist when the person is unable to feel a limb accurately, leading to pain outputs by the central nervous system. You will be introduced to how to recognise possible Functional Neurological Disorder, and Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS). You will learn ways to restore the person’s sense of safety in the body to then be able to perceive sensory information again to reduce pain. You will learn strategies to restore proprioceptive awareness for the proximal trunk and girdle regions to restore postural reflexes and motor control.

• Discussion and case studies
• Sensory hypo-sensitivity and nociplastic pain
• Non-dermatomal somatosensory deficits.
• Trauma and body dissociation
• Functional neurological disorders

Subjective assessment

• Questionnaires and interpretation - the focus will be on identifying people with Low Registration sensory profiles & Repressor personality types
• Sensory hypo-sensitivity and anxiety
• Repressors boom and bust, 'A-types'; people-pleasing behaviours and perfectionists
• Trauma-informed care
• What is Psychologically Informed Practice (PIP)?
• Lifestyle advice - Sleep, food, stressors which differ in Low Registration sensory profile types, exercise, CNS history (learning differences, concussion, trauma etc.)

Physical Assessment

• Postural awareness during key functional movements incl. balance tasks with distractions
• Mirror testing
• Proprioception: laser tracking, joint reposition sense
• Integrated oculomotor function
• Further primitive reflex assessments

Advisory Rehab

• Questionnaires and interpretation - how to advise Low Registration & Repressor personality types
• Sensory hypo-sensitivity and anxiety
• Repressors boom and bust, education and pacing
• CNS pain generation under sensory hypo-sensitivity threat model.
• How to approach functional neurological disorders

Physical Rehab

• Proprioceptive training and sensory grounding
• Postural awareness during key functional movements incl. balance tasks with distractions
• Mirror rehab
• Integrated Oculomotor function
• Application of primitive reflex inhibition, motor control and neurodevelopmental sequencing as applicable.
• Within the context of Psychologically Informed Practice