Module GW4430-KP05

Duration

1 Semester

Turnus of offer

each winter semester

Credit points

5

Course of studies, specific fields and terms:

• Master in Health and Healthcare Science 2025, optional subject, Interprofessional Care and Research in Pain

Classes and lectures:

• Neurophysiology of pain (lecture, 2 SWS)
• Multimodal interdisciplinary pain therapy (seminar, 2 SWS)

Workload:

• 60 hours in-classroom work
• 90 hours private studies and exercises

Contents of teaching:

• Anatomy: nerve fibre types, nociceptors, mechanoreceptors, synapse, spinal cord, thalamus, cortical and subcortical structures including brainstem, cerebral cortex, lateral and medial pain system ascending and descending pain pathways
• Physiology: action potential, resting membrane potentials, ion channels, second messenger systems, transduction, phosphorylation, gene transcription, neuroplasticity, neurotransmitters
• Brain networks: default mode network, salience network, sensorimotor network
• Placebo/nocebo mechanisms
• Peripheral and central sensitisation processes
• Importance of interprofessional collaboration for effective pain management
• Roles and responsibilities of different healthcare professions in pain management
• Setting goals that are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound (SMART goals)
• Pain Neuroscience Education as a form of treatment
• Strategies to support self-management
• Digital health resources (e.g. eHealth, telemedicine) to support self-management
• Differences between active (e.g. movement therapy, behavioural therapy) and passive (e.g. manual therapy, electrotherapy) treatment approaches

Qualification-goals/Competencies:

• Knowledge and understanding: Students can name the definitions of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) for various pain mechanisms.
• Knowledge and understanding: Students can explain which anatomical structures, physiological and biological processes are involved in the perception and modulation of nociceptive stimuli.
• Knowledge and understanding: Students understand the contribution of biological, psychological and social factors in pain chronification and evaluate and describe their influence on the individual case-related pain experience.
• Use, application and generation of knowledge: The students are able to analyse and explain the complex and multidimensional mechanisms of a pain experience to those affected.
• Use, application and generation of knowledge: The students can evaluate the individual factors influencing the experience of pain, such as distraction, habituation (desensitisation), physical activity, placebo/nocebo and integrate these into patient management.
• Use, application and generation of knowledge: The students can recognise and interpret different patterns of nociceptive, neuropathic and nociplastic pain and adapt their clinical actions to the dominant pain mechanism in each case.
• Use, application and generation of knowledge: The students can assess and apply suitable strategies and measures to promote physical activity, self-efficacy and sustainability, taking psychosocial factors into account.
• Use, application and generation of knowledge: The students know relevant therapy outcomes and can evaluate them.
• Communication and Cooperation: The students can communicate with patients in a supportive manner.
• Communication and Cooperation: The students can provide individualised education on health knowledge and pain mechanisms as part of the therapy.
• Communication and Cooperation: The students can document the therapeutic process.
• Scientific self-conception and professionalism: The students can reflect on the therapeutic process, including individual and professional boundaries.
• Scientific self-image / professionalism: The students can develop a professional attitude of tolerant acceptance and, if necessary, professional demarcation towards people with other value systems for the context of therapy
• Scientific self-image / professionalism: The students can evaluate the need for interprofessional collaboration
• · Communication and Cooperation: The students can reflect on their own inner attitude, differences in values and your own emotional stress.

Grading through:

• written exam

Responsible for this module:

• Prof. Dr. Kerstin Lüdtke

Teacher:

• Institute of Health Sciences
• Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
• Institute for Social Medicine and Epidemiology - Section for Research and Teaching in Nursing
• PD Dr. rer. hum. biol. Tibor Szikszay
• PhD Waclaw Adamzyk
• M.Sc. Adrian Roesner
• Priv.-Doz. Dr. rer. nat. Ulrike Kaiser

Literature:

• Moseley, L. G., & Butler, D. S. : Explain Pain Supercharged South Australia: Noigroup Publications (2017)
• Butler, D. S. & Moseley, L. G. : Schmerzen verstehen Springer Verlag (2016)
• World Health Organisation : International Classification of Diseases 11th Revision (ICD-11). Geneva (2022)
• Louw, A. : Pain Neuroscience Education: Teaching People About Pain 2nd Edition Orthopedic Physical Therapy Products (2018)
• International Association For The Study Of Pain : Declaration of Montreal - Declaration that Access to Pain Management Is a Fundamental Human Right (2015) /li>

Language:

• German and English skills required

Notes:

Last Updated:

31.01.2025