What is an UnConference and how is this different from a conference?

UnConferences are events run by participants. Attendees can submit topics or challenges, set the agenda for what’s discussed, lead the sessions and create an environment of innovation and productive discussion.

Instead of passive listening, all attendees and organizers are encouraged to become participants, with discussion leaders providing moderation and structure for attendees.

Why come to the Pain UnConference?

  • To learn some basic tools we can use as PTs to manage psychological issues for patients with pain.
  • To identify practical strategies for explaining pain.
  • To contribute to advancing the profession by having your ideas incorporated into a position paper on how PTs can use psychological approaches in their practice.
  • To meet other motivated clinicians.

WHEN: Saturday May 27th 2017
WHERE: 
Edmonton, Alberta

Montreal Satellite location: Noci clinique, 2609 chemin de la Côte Ste-Catherine, Montreal, Quebec, H4L 3V3
https://www.nociclinique.ca/home
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Hamilton Satellite location:  Physio In Motion, 700 Main Street East, Hamilton, ON. L8M 1K7 
http://physioinmotion.ca/you-come-to-us/

The Pain Science Division

Our Mission
The Pain Science Division is a special interest group of the Canadian Physiotherapy Association that serves physiotherapists who have an interest in better understanding and managing pain and in connecting with like-minded clinicians, educators and researchers. The mission of the Pain Science Division is to:
  1. Foster connections and collaborations between clinicians, educators and researchers interested in pain and physiotherapy
  2. Facilitate the bidirectional translation of knowledge between pain research and clinical practice
  3. Integrate the professional interests of Canadian physiotherapists within national and international pain networks.

Our Vision
Canadians with pain are living better with the help of physiotherapy.

Our Guest

​Charles Raison, MD, is Professor, Human Development and Family Studies, School of Human Ecology, and Professor, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Dr. Raison serves as the founding Director of the Center for Compassion Studies in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Arizona and is on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Usona Institute.

He is internationally recognized for his studies examining novel mechanisms involved in the development and treatment of major depression and other stress-related emotional and physical conditions, as well as for his work examining the physical and behavioral effects of compassion training.

Dr. Raison has received the Raymond Pearl Memorial Award from the Human Biology Association “in recognition of his contributions to our understanding of evolutionary biocultural origins of mental health and illness.”
In addition to his academic activities, Dr. Raison is the mental health expert for CNN.com.

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