Practical pain management: Neurology and psychology

Date and time Tue 22 Feb 2022 from 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Location Online
Organised by Clinical Neurosciences

This webinar will see experts, Dr Sam Chong, Consultant Neurologist, and Professor Amanda Williams, Professor of Clinical Health Psychology, discuss the practical approaches for chronic pain management from a neurological and psychological perspective.

Dr Chong will outline the complications of performing neurological assessments on patients with chronic pain and show how this affects long term management. He will also discuss the difficulties of translating scientific and clinical pain research findings to the bedside and the shortfalls in producing management guidelines for chronic pain patients.

Professor Williams will continue on the same themes from a psychological perspective of chronic pain management. Although psychological techniques are well known and accepted, there is still disagreement on how they are best employed to help chronic pain patients. The large number of research studies and guidelines can add confusion. Professor Williams will outline best ways forward with examples.

During this webinar you learn about:

How standard neurological assessment of chronic pain patients has its shortfalls
Relying on published evidence alone is insufficient when managing chronic pain patients
How the indiscriminate production and use of national guidelines can disadvantage this patient group

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Dr Sam Chong

Consultant Neurologist, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Speaker's biography

Dr Chong is a consultant neurologist with an interest in managing patients with chronic pain. He works in the Pain Management Centre at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Prior to that, he was a consultant neurologist at Kings College Hospital, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

Professor Amanda Williams

Professor, Clinical Health Psychology, University College London and Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Pain Management Centre, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Speaker's biography

Professor Amanda C de C Williams is a professor of clinical health psychology at University College London, and a consultant clinical psychologist at the Pain Management Centre, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. She is also a section editor for psychology on PAIN, and consults on research to the International Centre for Health and Human Rights.

As a clinician in an innovative inpatient and outpatient pain management programme at St Thomas’ Hospital, London, she carried out research that constituted part of her PhD, awarded in 1996. She joined University College London in 2004. Her research interests include evidence-based medicine applied to psychologically-informed interventions for pain, including systematic review and meta-analysis; evolutionary perspectives on pain; behavioural expression of pain and its interpretation; better recognition and treatment of pain from torture; and responsive wearable technology to extend healthcare into patients’ own environments.

She has written over 300 papers and chapters on pain and psychology; publications can be found by clikcing here.

View the programme

6:00pm

Welcome and introduction

Dr Alistair Purves, President, Clinical Neurosciences Section, Royal Society of Medicine and Consultant Neurophysiologist, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

6:05pm

Practical pain management: Neurology

Dr Sam Chong, Consultant Neurologist, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

6:50pm

Practical pain management: Psychology

Professor Amanda Williams, Professor, Clinical Health Psychology, University College London and Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Pain Management Centre, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

7:35pm

Questions and answers

8:00pm

Close of meeting

Disclaimer: All views expressed in this webinar are of the speakers themselves and not of the RSM nor the speaker's organisations.

Special rates for difficult times
The RSM wishes to offer healthcare professionals continued learning opportunities during the coronavirus pandemic. The RSM’s weekly COVID-19 Series webinars remain free of charge, while there will be small charges to register for other online education. These fees will enable the RSM to continue its programme of activities and will apply during the course of the pandemic.

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Practical pain management: Neurology and psychology

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