Overcoming chronic pain: An integrated lifestyle medicine based approach (1 CME Point)
Speakers
Dr Deepak Ravindran MD, DipBSLM/IBLM, FFPMRCA
Hon professor, Teesside university
Dr Deepak Ravindran has over 20 years of experience in Pain Management and is a full time NHS Consultant in Pain Medicine at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, Berkshire, UK. He is one of the very few consultants in the UK who holds triple certification in musculoskeletal, pain medicine and lifestyle medicine. He lectures nationally and internationally on issues in Longcovid, Pain Medicine and Trauma informed practice and has regularly spoken to the media and television on these issues. He Helped establish the award-winning community pain service in Berkshire (IPASS) in 2015 and the Berkshire Longcovid Integrated Service (BLIS) in 2020. He is an active physician researcher and part of the Pain Research Network at the University of Reading. He has been Honours Management Graduate from the Henley Business School and has been awarded the National Apprentice of the Year for 2021 by Chartered Management Institute (CMI). He is the CMO for the digital rehabilitation platform, Boutros Bear, which focusses on supporting a patient in navigating the journey through chronic illnesses such as chronic pain, cancer and menopause. Dr Deepak Ravindran is the author of the Amazon Best Seller “The Pain Free Mindset” released in 2021. This book is aimed at patients suffering with pain but also immensely useful for all healthcare professionals in understanding all the recent advances around pain management in a trauma informed integrative manner. He brings that integrative holistic approach to the bedside in caring and providing a personalised plan for his patients.
AGENDA:
In this presentation I will provide an update of the advances in pain science and how appreciating the new neuroscience of pain can help us better appreciate the exciting opportunities to help patients in pain. There are now many evidenced based approaches to managing pain rather than just medications or interventions and understanding these other non-pharmacological approaches will align with the long term plan of the NHS while empowering the patients to overcome their pain with less burden on healthcare resources making it more sustainable in the long term. I will conclude by offering some case studies and how to provide more personalised recommendations where possible and offer some future perspectives.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
- Understand and define chronic primary and secondary pain and the new NICE guidelines
- Explain how the new neuroscience of pain works and the practical application of nutritional strategies for chronic pain management
- Apply this knowledge to be able to provide better and more holistic and integrative pain care using Lifestyle Medicine based principles