Behavioural Medicine for the Pain Clinician
Dates: 24th to 27th June 2022 ONLINE
This 4 day ONLINE LIVE ZOOM course is aimed at the pain clinician and the pain clinic veterinary nursewho is already familiar with treating chronic pain in dogs and cats. Very often, the practitioner is faced with the difficulty in distinguishing between behaviours that are directly the result of pain and those caused by pain, but now learned; the presentation of mixed behavioural/pain pictures; and the need to determine whether the outcome measures selected are pain or behaviour related.
The course will teach how the effects of chronic pain affect the brain and behaviour of the patient; the normal behaviour of cats and dogs and how pain may affect this; how to distinguish between a painful cause and a social/environmental cause of a behaviour problem; and will teach some basic principles in treating common behavioural disorders, including the use of behaviour modifying drugs. Case examples, discussions and group work will be mixed with lecture presentations.
This course can be taken as a stand-alone experience (24 hours of CPD) or can be used as part of the bespoke award in Integrated Care in Veterinary Practice (ECAS AWARD in ICVP).
Lecturer: Samantha Lindley BVSc MRCVS
The course will teach how the effects of chronic pain affect the brain and behaviour of the patient; the normal behaviour of cats and dogs and how pain may affect this; how to distinguish between a painful cause and a social/environmental cause of a behaviour problem; and will teach some basic principles in treating common behavioural disorders, including the use of behaviour modifying drugs. Case examples, discussions and group work will be mixed with lecture presentations.
This course can be taken as a stand-alone experience (24 hours of CPD) or can be used as part of the bespoke award in Integrated Care in Veterinary Practice (ECAS AWARD in ICVP).
Lecturer: Samantha Lindley BVSc MRCVS
Booking Form: registeration_form_behaviour_medicine_june_2022.pdf
Course Overview:
Day 1 – 24th June 2022
Day 2 – 25th June 2022
Day 3 – 26th June 2022
Day 4 – 27th June 2022
Day 1 – 24th June 2022
- Pain and its relationship to emotions
- Perception of pain and the effect on emotion
- The stress response
- The endocannabinoid system
- Modulation of pain
- The influence of pain on behavioural problems
Day 2 – 25th June 2022
- Normal behaviour of dogs
- Pain behaviours of dogs
- Resources and how they are limited by pain
- Normal behaviours of cats
- Pain behaviours of cats
- Resources and how they are limited by pain
Day 3 – 26th June 2022
- Causes of behaviour problems
- Making the distinction between clinical and social causes of behavioural problems
- Examination and gait reminders and what to do if you cannot examine the patient
- Behavioural problems where the boundaries are blurred between pain and social/environmental causes
- Pain and anxiety – where in the vicious cycle is your patient?
- Behavioural principles: part 1 Aggression
Day 4 – 27th June 2022
- Behavioural principles: part 2 Anxiety and fear
- Behavioural principles: part 3 Compulsive disorders