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The 2023 PPDA Conference ON DEMAND

This year, we had new topics and an impressive lineup of 29 speakers. Our conference was held virtually, and the good news is that on-demand access with enduring credit is still available until October 31, 2024. Register today and enjoy the sessions at your own pace. We're proud to offer 12 Enduring CE/CME hours for physicians, nurses, psychologists, and social workers.

2021 Conference On Demand

We are delighted to announce that we have recently hosted the largest mind-body conference to date. Even if you were unable to attend the event, you can still register to access the conference and watch the recording at your convenience. Twenty-two experts share how to eliminate chronic pain, migraine, fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome, chronic fatigue, pelvic pain, eczema, and other chronic or medically unexplained symptoms through an evidence-based, biopsychosocial approach.

Online course #1

A 6-hour online course led by PPDA President David Clarke, MD and Executive Director Jessica Shahinian with 13 video modules and quizzes, numerous case studies, two test cases with short writing prompts, helpful resources, and bonus doctor/patient simulation and interviews with the instructors. CE credits are not available for this course. Learn more and watch the first module for free.

Online Course # 2 : Challenging Psychophysiologic Disorder Cases 

This course builds on PPD Professional Course #1 and is jargon-free so that everyone can benefit. The course provides deeper insights into all patients with PPD by focusing on those who are particularly difficult to diagnose or treat.

You will learn about recent research in PPD and how to successfully diagnose and treat:

1. Stressful personality traits

2. Triggers (people, events or situations linked to past trauma)

3. Repressed emotions

4. Pain or illness linked to self-image and worldview including in:

   a. Adolescents

   b. People with strong religious beliefs

SIRPA’s Practitioner Training

Developed by SIRPA and its founder, Georgie Oldfield MCSP, this 2-level online course is certified by the UK’s CPD Certification Service and is aimed at enabling health professionals and health coaches to integrate the SIRPA (Stress Illness Recovery Practitioners’ Association) approach into their own work.

1. Level 1 – This introductory course is a stand-alone course or is included for free as part of a bundle with Level 2.  It is designed to help individuals become acquainted with the concepts and evidence supporting this approach and introduces some basic strategies to use with clients. (10 CPD hours)

2. Level 2 -  The full practitioner training includes a wealth of worksheets, strategies and additional multimedia resources related to this field, along with training and support in assessing and creating treatment plans for clients.  Level 2 also includes 2 free months of SIRPA membership, providing additional resources including regular webinars, peer and clinical support, marketing opportunities and the opportunity to undertake case studies to become a certified SIRPA Practitioner.  (41 CPD hours)

Interrupting the reign of pain: therapy tools to eliminate chronic pain

A 2-hour digital seminar led by Howard Schubiner, MD (PPDA Co-Founder), presented by PESI, Inc.

Typically, physical and psychological pain are treated separately, even when they’re deeply intertwined. Nearly half of all therapy clients suffer from chronic physical pain, which often has no clear medical cause, including back and neck pain, headaches, and fibromyalgia. We now know that all pain is constructed by the brain’s alarm mechanism, which can be activated by either physical injury or perceived emotional threat. In this recording, you’ll learn tools to simultaneously address physical and emotional pain in your work with clients.

Chronic Pain and Disrupted Early Attachments – A Holistic Overview for Psychotherapists

This multi-disciplinary conference, available on-demand, will examine the early foundations of chronic pain and how to work with these conditions therapeutically. The impact of the ongoing pandemic on people who experienced early life adversity will be acknowledged. Our speakers include a psychologist/psychoanalyst, musculoskeletal physician and physiotherapist. Offering distinct but related understandings and techniques, drawing on relational, neurobiological and attachment studies, they will outline the aetiology of chronic pain in their adult patients, and how they work with this.
Speakers: Frances Sommer Anderson PhD (PPDA Co-Founder), Georgie Oldfield MCSP, Nick Straiton MBBS
Recorded: February 27, 2021

Dr. Kevin Cuccaro’s Pain Education & Training

Advanced pain science for every clinical practice.

1. The Pain Class (Pain 101) provides healthcare clinicians an introduction to modern pain neuroscience and uses a unique conceptual model to demonstrate how to comfortably and confidently approach pain treatment in clinical practice. (Free, 1.5 CE)

2. The Pain Course (Pain 201) Pain Science for Clinical Practice gives clinicians a strategic understanding of pain and how pain treatments work so they can apply their clinical expertise in safe, effective, and unique ways for pain care.

OVIDDX.COM

OVIDDx.com is a mobile app that was created by Dr. Alicia Batson and Howard Schubiner MD. that educates professionals and others about PPD and the mind-body connection. Using up to date information, resources and references, it consists of a self-paced program of short lessons that can be viewed on any mobile device. There are four modules: education about PPD, assessment of PPD, treatment of PPD, and a module specifically designed for physical therapists. CME credits are available for physicians.
See oviddx.com