Physical Therapy and Pain Treatment
Physical Therapy and the Treatment of Pain
Christine Zampach PT, MEd, DPT University of New Mexico PCTC and Project ECHO
University of California San Francisco School of Medicine
Associate Clinical Professor
cdz 2015
I have nothing to disclose.
Objectives
? Participants will be:
? Introduced to how physical therapists are looking at pain. ? Shown how common pain diagnoses have similar nervous
system changes. ? Seeing how the following diagnoses are being treated in
physical therapy
? Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) ? Phantom limb pain ? Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) ? Failed Back Syndrome and Low Back Pain(FBS &LBP)
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Pain in the 21st Century
? Descartes 1664
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International Association for Study of Pain (IASP)
? Pain is "an unpleasant sensory & emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, described in terms of such damage."
IASP 1979
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Chronic Pain = Pain Centralization = Neuroplasticity ? The "rules" change as pain starts to alter structures of
the brain ? The brain does not have just one single pain center ? Changes occur from the spinal cord to the brain
Seifert F, et al. 2009. Coghill RC, et.al. 1999
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Central Nervous System Changes ? Neuroplasticity
? Nerve sprouting ? General dis-inhibition ? Brain map remodeling - PT intervention ? Loss of neurons and neuronal function ? De-innervation ? Alterations in neuronal and glial activity ? Sensory-motor and sensory-sensory
incongruence - PT intervention
Flor H, et al. 2006
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