SIRPA's online CPD Practiitoner Courses

Transform Your Physiotherapy Practice with SIRPA’s Cutting-Edge Chronic Pain Recovery Training

As a physiotherapist, you’re already equipped with an understanding of the biopsychosocial model of chronic pain. But what if you could go beyond simply understanding and managing pain and actually help your patients resolve their pain? With SIRPA’s newly updated Practitioner Training Programme, you can do just that—empowering your patients to reclaim their lives from chronic pain.

Why Chronic Pain is More Than Just a Sensation

Over the past two decades, advancements in pain neuroscience have fundamentally reshaped our understanding of chronic pain. We now know that chronic pain isn’t merely a reflection of tissue damage but rather a ‘protective’ response orchestrated by the brain. A complex interplay of factors are involved in this, including sensory and emotional inputs, memories, expectations, and even cultural norms.

Unfortunately, despite a wealth of evidence linking chronic pain with stress, trauma, emotions, and mindset, very often these critical factors are overlooked in conventional treatment plans. SIRPA’s trauma-informed, mindbody approach aims to fill this gap, offering health professionals the tools to treat chronic pain more comprehensively.

Why Choose SIRPA Training?

SIRPA’s Continuing Professional Development (CPD) courses are designed to help physiotherapists and other health professionals deepen their understanding of pain neuroscience and it’s treatment, with a strong focus on recovery rather than symptom management. Our newly updated courses, launching in September 2024, offer an enriched online experience and draw on nearly 200 scientific studies.

Here’s what SIRPA’s online CPD training offers:

• Cutting-Edge Pain Science: Stay at the forefront of pain neuroscience and mindbody disorders with the latest research.
• Trauma Aware Care: Gain insights into your patients’ emotional stories and learn how to address the physiological responses in their body from a trauma-informed perspective.
• Empowerment: Equip your patients with the understanding and tools they need to take control of their pain and embark on a recovery journey.

Three Levels of Comprehensive Training

SIRPA offers three levels of training, designed to meet you where you are in your professional journey:

1. Foundations of Chronic Pain Recovery: A 25-hour experiential CPD course that introduces the neuroscience and causes of chronic pain, plus effective recovery strategies. This course is open to all and is required for further SIRPA training.
2. Fundamentals of Chronic Pain Recovery: A 22-hour CPD course that delves deeper into pain and trauma science, impacts of stress, and neuroplasticity. This course qualifies you as a ‘SIRPA-Informed professional’ and is open to all health and wellness professionals.
3. SIRPA Practitioner Programme: A comprehensive 50-hour CPD course following Levels 1 & 2, for qualified health professionals, teaching you how to support patients through pain recovery using the SIRPA approach.

The updated SIRPA Practitioner courses are even more comprehensive and robust, guiding you through every step of the chronic pain recovery process. From introducing these concepts to patients and teaching up to date neuroscience, to ruling out red flags and making informed diagnoses using the FIT protocols, this programme empowers you to accurately identify and treat conditions like neural circuit disorders, neuroplastic pain, or psychophysiologic disorders.

Integrating SIRPA with Your Physiotherapy Practice

SIRPA training integrates seamlessly with your existing physiotherapy practice. It enhances your ability to understand and treat chronic pain, building on the compassionate care you already provide. The training equips you with strategies such as resourcing, emotional awareness, somatic tracking, and pain reprocessing —all designed to help patients reinterpret their pain signals and recover.

A recent study from Boulder, Colorado, underscores the effectiveness of pain reprocessing, which is just one aspect of the SIRPA approach. Their findings were that 68% of participants who engaged with pain reprocessing therapy were free of pain, or nearly free (VAS 0/1), following treatment and this was maintained a year later.

Join a Supportive Global Community

By enrolling in SIRPA’s CPD training, you also become part of a global community dedicated to transforming lives through chronic pain recovery. You’ll gain access to peer support, clinical supervision, and ongoing professional development opportunities, all within a supportive network.

Don’t just manage chronic pain—transform it!

Start your journey with SIRPA today and empower your patients to achieve a pain-free future.

Visit www.sirpa.org/cpd-courses to learn more.

Register your interest now and in September you can benefit from the launch discount. Or, if booking after the end of September, you can use the coupon code CSP10 at checkout to enjoy a 10% discount on course fees..