Faulty Alarms and Overactive Systems: Explaining Functional Symptoms to Patients
WORKSHOP: 9.00am - 12.00pm.
Morning tea is provided.
Most of us GPs weren’t trained in how to make a positive diagnosis of ‘somatisation’ or ‘functional illness’, or how to explain what is going on to our patients. Fortunately, modern neuroscience now shows how these mind body symptoms (chronic pain, IBS, non-cardiac chest pain, persistent fatigue states and so on) are created and perpetuated by the central nervous system (CNS) at an unconscious level. These insights are now being translated into the clinic; the good news is that useful explanations (eg ‘faulty internal alarm systems’) are readily available.
Join Hamish Wilson for an interactive and supportive workshop based on our practical handbook and explanatory guides. We will focus on two particular explanations: the Sympathetic Nervous System for general symptoms and Pain Neuroscience Education for chronic pain. By the end of this workshop, you will feel more confidence with these patients, be able to make a ‘positive diagnosis’ of persistent physical symptoms, and be able to explain to patients why they have their symptoms and what they can do about them. Please bring along some of your own cases to discuss.
Cost:
- Registration fee per session (add-on to Symposium registration) - $355
- Registration fee per session, Friday only participants (not part of Symposium) - $375
This workshop has been endorsed and approved for professional development by The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners (2.5 hrs, 5 points) and the College of Nurses Aotearoa NZ for 2.5 professional development hours.
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