Pain management coaching is a systemized application of techniques, including motivational interviewing, that enable your patients to work through ambivalence and take action to change their lives. One of the primary components is education. Coaches teach skills to enable the patient to regain a sense of control and direction. Working with patients to implement the provider’s recommendations, coaches give support and tools to help the patient reframe their perspective hopelessness and safely navigate through the treacherous jungle of complicated pain.
Learning Objectives:
Learn how coaching establishes restorative partnerships with patients
Identify several contributing factors to non-functionality and how techniques used in pain management coaching increase compliance and functionality
Learn positive effects of groups in pain management
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