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Coursera – Preventing Chronic Pain: A Human Systems Approach

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Chronic musculoskeletal pain, which includes headache, neck, and back pain, is a major global source of misery, incapacity, and medical expenses. Chronic pain is the most expensive medical illness to treat since it frequently requires surgery, several drugs, including opioids, unending physical and chiropractic therapy, injections, implanted devices, and other passive therapies. In terms of enduring agony and suffering, the load on individuals is immeasurable.

Think of an option. We can comprehend how individual risk factors in the cognitive, behavioral, physical, emotional, spiritual, social, and environmental spheres of our life might interact to sustain chronic pain and, if modified, can avoid it by applying a human systems approach.

You will learn how to: Identify the issues with how our healthcare system handles chronic pain. Review the genesis, causes, and diagnosis of illnesses that cause persistent pain. Learn more about the precise risk factors that might fuel chronic pain. Discover how a human systems approach may be used to avoid chronic pain using evidence-based self-management techniques. Engage in proactive measures intended to strengthen the protective elements that can change your life—and the lives of your patients—to one of wellbeing and health.

2014 marked the debut of this course. The course was revised to enhance its quality after a comprehensive examination of the course assessments. Overall, 91% of participants thought the experience was satisfactory, 92% thought the goals were reached, 93% thought it had a positive impact on their lives, and 85% thought it had a positive impact on patient care.

Some participant remarks included: “This course is among the most liberal offers I’ve ever seen. It’s unusual and astonishing that there is so much free, life-affirming knowledge available to everyone who wants it. I am VERY appreciative of it. The educational experience has been fantastic! This information is essential for everyone, but especially for those working in the medical field. I want to take this course again since I enjoyed it. Very interesting and insightful… Every instructional program for the healthcare industry should include this knowledge! I now have a much better understanding of who I am and the reasons for my thoughts, behaviors, and worldview thanks to this course. I will always be appreciative of the time and effort put into making this knowledge beacon available to the globe. Since pain is a preventable aspect of life, I believe this training is a beautiful gift. I have gained a lot of knowledge.

Enjoy the course and, of course, learn how to avoid chronic pain, is our sincere wish for you.

SYLLABUS

Part A: Contextualizing persistent discomfort
beginning of the course
The problem of persistent pain in healthcare
Chronic pain’s effects on the individual
The harmony of health and ailment

Part B: Examining how pain works
a myofascial ache
Headache
Fibromyalgia
Orofacial and temporomandibular discomfort due to arthritis
current theories on the causes of chronic pain

Part C: Eliminating discomfort in the seven spheres of daily existence
Expectation, self-efficacy, and resilience
Exercise, good posture, and minimizing physical effort
favorable connections and social support
establishing secure and guarded surroundings
handling emotional difficulties
Energy, sleep, and diet
Developing awareness, hope, and purpose

Part D: Coordinating everything to best serve the patient
The patient’s experience: the basis for clinical judgment
putting in place transformational health care
enhancing the medical system

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Medicine is the science and practice of establishing the diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and prevention of disease.
Medicine encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness.
Contemporary medicine applies biomedical sciences, biomedical research, genetics, and medical technology to diagnose, treat, and prevent injury and disease,
typically through pharmaceuticals or surgery, but also through therapies as diverse as psychotherapy, external splints and traction, medical devices, biologics, and ionizing radiation, amongst others.

Medicine has been around for thousands of years, during most of which it was an art (an area of skill and knowledge) frequently having connections to the religious and
philosophical beliefs of local culture. For example, a medicine man would apply herbs and say prayers for healing, or an ancient philosopher and physician would apply bloodletting according to the theories of humorism.
In recent centuries, since the advent of modern science, most medicine has become a combination of art and science (both basic and applied, under the umbrella of medical science).
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