Explain Pain (Dec 04 - 05, 2025)

Explain Pain is organized by National Centre of Rehabilitation Education (NCORE) and will be held from Dec 04 - 05, 2025.

Description:
In a world experiencing an epidemic of chronic pain and increasing evidence of the failure of synthetic drugs, simple but extremely powerful educational tools can effectively target the natural pain treatment systems within us all.
Knowledge is power. In the new series of Explain Pain courses delivered by NOI instructors around the world, contemporary pain sciences are made accessible and understandable for all.

We know more about pain in the last twenty years than in the thousand years before and it’s all providing answers to “why do I hurt the way I do” and “what can I do about it”. The knowledge is applicable to young and old, from back pain to hemiplegia and general aching to the complexities of phantom pain and complex regional pain syndrome.
Explain Pain works to reduce catastrophisation and negative pain beliefs and when combined with active treatment, reduces pain and enhances return to work and play. Explain Pain has no side effects, is available around the clock, and you can share the knowledge and strategies with others.

Don’t miss this opportunity. NOI Explain Pain courses are fun, intellectually stimulating, based on evidence, always challenging, and integrate the Explain Pain ecosystem of Explain Pain, The Explain Pain Handbook: Protectometer, and Explain Pain Supercharged. You will come away with the most impressive therapeutic tool set ever!

Course Aims:
By the end of this course participants will have:

• Reconceptualised pain and stress based on neuroimmunology, modern pain sciences and bioplasticity of homeostatic systems.
• Constructed a conceptual change framework to deliver individual and group educational therapy.
• Gained an understanding of the growing evidence for Explain Pain and recognise opportunities to integrate Explain Pain with other biopsychosocial evidence based strategies.
• Gathered a collection of therapeutic narratives using metaphor, literal story and linked multimedia, and the skills to construct patient centred education interventions in real time.
• Developed the skills to use the Protectometer to identify immediately applicable and educationally informed multimodal treatment strategies.
• Built the confidence to plan and deliver treatment for all patients with persistent pain and stress, and educate other stakeholder.
• Inspire and engender realistic hope for health care providers, their patients and all stakeholders for improved pain treatment outcomes.