PHTY20290

Learning Outcomes:

On completion of this module students should:

1. Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the biopsychosocial model of pain, recognising the interplay between biological, psychological, and social factors in the experience and management of pain.
2. Demonstrate knowledge of contemporary pain neuroscience, including the underlying mechanisms, pathways, and processes involved in the perception and modulation of pain.
3. Employ various pain assessment techniques, utilising both self-report and objective measures to accurately evaluate the intensity, location, and nature of pain
experienced by patients.
4. Demonstrate ability to to clinically reason the patients pain presentation from biopsychosocial assessment and apply evidence based treatment approaches to patients experiencing diverse pain presentations in a collaborative, compassionate, professional, safe and ethical manner that recognises and respects equality, diversity and inclusion and develops professional autonomy and accountability

Indicative Module Content:

This module introduces students to pain science and mechanisms, the biopsychosocial model of pain, and evidence-based assessment and management of pain presentations and core areas of physiotherapy practice.

Key module content includes:

1. Biopsychosocial model of pain
2. Pain neuroscience education
3. Pain assessment
4. Evidence based approaches for pain management

Student Effort Hours:

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:

This module employs:

1. Content teaching by didactic lecture and asynchronous (online) virtual reality videos
2. Simulation training - practical sessions using technology enhanced learning (virtual reality clinical cases) to clinically reason pain classifications and communication strategies for explaining pain neuroscience to patients
3. Group discussion
4. The curriculum maps to the European Pain Federation EFIC Core Pain Curriculum for Bachelor / Pre-registration Physiotherapy Programmes https://europeanpainfederation.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/EFIC-Physio-Bachelor-Curriculum-2024.pdf

AI/Academic Integrity:
Staff may utilise Artificial Intelligence (AI) during the programme to support teaching and learning and it will be clearly indicated if and when AI is used. Students are prohibited from representing work as their own that they did not write, code or create. Submission of AI-generated content to this module by a student without explicit permission and attribution is not allowed and it may reflect unacceptable professional behaviour. This may result in the initiation of a student disciplinary procedure in accordance with the “University Student Code of Conduct and Academic Integrity Policy.

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.

Module Requisites and Incompatibles

Pre-requisite:
ANAT10110 - Clinical Human Anatomy I, PHTY10160 - Health Care Practice 1, PHTY10330 - IntroAppliedBiophysics Princip


 

Assessment Strategy

 

Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
• Online automated feedback

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Not yet recorded.

Pain: A textbook for health professionals. van Griensven H, Strong J, Unruh AM (Editors). 2nd Edition. Churchill Livingstone Elsevier, 2014.
Key peer reviewed publications identified within lecture notes (reviewed, ± updated yearly).

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