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Shifting Pain Care | April 1, 2021

Date of Presentation: April 1, 2021

Type: Past Presentation  

Audience: Clinical  

Program: Substance Use Disorder  

Keywords: #chronic pain  #pain and addiction  #pain care  

In this presentation, Nora Stern, physical therapist and pain educator, discusses new concepts in pain care. Nora provides valuable resources and importantly discusses how to use them, including phrasing, workflow and application to SUD treatment.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Presented by:

Nora Stern

Nora Stern, PT, MS PT, is a pain educator and physical therapist with 30+ years of experience in complex pain.   Nora is director of Know About Pain Consultation and Educational Products and is chair of the Oregon State Pain Management Commission.  With Know About Pain, Nora provides consultation and develops pain education content for inpatient and outpatient care, with a current emphasis on the acute care arena.  With OPMC, she was a primary author of the popular “Changing the Conversation about Pain” module, and authored portions of the new pain toolkit for Oregon Pain Guidance.   During 25 years of work at Providence Health and Services, she developed pain education innovation for the primary care continuum in her role as pain educator for Providence Oregon, and guided the Persistent Pain team within Providence Oregon Rehab Services as the Pain Program lead.   Nora was an initial developer of the Providence Comprehensive Pain Services clinic, using cost-effective group treatment to serve Medicaid and Medicare, as well as conventional fee-for-service care.

Nora is committed to improving clinical understanding of pain across disciplines and to helping the public to rethink pain.

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Date added: April 1, 2021