How to manage back pain at work – a new approach

Tuesday 16 October 2018, Central Birmingham

Tutors:

Sharon Wilday, consultant cognitive behavioural psychotherapist  and honorary clinical lecturer, University of Birmingham

David Rogers, chartered physiotherapist, Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham

Back pain is one of the five leading causes of long term absence in the UK*, making it vital that OH professionals have the skills to successfully assess, treat and manage employees with back pain. This new workshop will provide you with the tools to manage back pain in the workplace. It looks at how to assess and treat biopsychosocial obstacles to recovery in back pain, with the focus on addressing psychological factors, to improve consultations and employee outcomes. The new skills learnt can be used on a day to day basis in occupational health to achieve better OH outcomes.

*CIPD and Simplyhealth annual survey 2016

 

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Programme

9.00

Registration and coffee

9.20

Introduction and welcome

9.30

Background and research

  • Evidence base for assessing and treating biopsychosocial obstacles to recovery in back pain
  • Understanding back pain from a psychological perspective
  • How to avoid common errors when assessing and treating back pain
10.15

Assessing psychological obstacles to recovery in back pain

  • What are they? – fear avoidance, self efficacy and thinking styles
  • How do they influence recovery?
  • Recognising modifiable obstacles to recovery
  • Promoting recovery using:
    -motivational interviewing techniques
    – the Stages of Change model

(There will be 15 minute break for coffee during
this session)

11.50

Formulating assessment – practical session

  • General principles of assessment techniques
  • Performing a clinical assessment using cognitive behavioural principles to establish psychological obstacles to recovery
  • Case studies
13.00

Lunch

13.45

Toolkit: Treating biopsychosocial obstacles to recovery in  back pain

  • Developing a toolkit of treatment approaches to address psychological obstacles to recovery
  • How to use a cognitive behavioural approach to promote recovery in back pain
  • How to manage resistance to recovery
14.35

Formulating treatment – practical session

  • General principles of treatment techniques
  • Performing a clinical treatment focusing on psychological obstacles to recovery using cognitive behavioural principles
  • Case studies

(There will be a working tea during this session)

16.00

Final questions

16.10

Close of workshop

Benefits of attending

How will attending this workshop benefit you?

You will gain:

• Knowledge of the role that biopsychosocial factors play in preventing recovery from back pain and what you can do to change this

• A toolkit to successfully treat psychological factors to promote recovery

• Techniques to help employees move without fear

• Access to a flare-up plan for use when employees’ back pain becomes overwhelming

• Guidance on how to help line managers to manage employees’ back pain

• An understanding of how your day to day clinical work and outcomes can be enhanced by addressing psychological obstacles to recovery

 

This training is designed for:

• OH physicians, OH nurses

• Allied professionals working in OH, including those working in occupational physiotherapy, vocational rehabilitation, case management and mental health

No prior knowledge is assumed, and the training is designed to take into account different levels of knowledge of the participants. It will be very relevant to delegates who have attended The At Work Partnership’s Certificate in OH Case Management and Certificate in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) skills for OH professionals

 

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