Micki Harris EL: Pain: Stressing the Heart of the Matter
5/18/20177:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Franklin Pierce University - PT Program
670 N Commercial St
Suite 301
Manchester, Nh03101
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Presented by Sean Collins, PT, ScD
Course Description/Objectives:
This course will present the cardiopulmonary implications of acute and chronic pain, including the underlying neuroendocrine stress responses resulting in a variety of self perpetuating feedback cascades in metabolic, physiological and psychological systems. It will cast several hypothesized mechanistic explanations, review their empirical support, and discuss physical therapy practice implications for patient management (examination, evaluation and intervention) across practice settings.
Attendees will:
- Understand and evaluate several possible mechanisms by which acute and chronic pain influence the cardiopulmonary systems through neuroendocrine mediated alterations in metabolic, physiological and psychological systems.
- Understand and evaluate the empirical support for the above mechanisms.
- Identify the physical therapy practice implications for the cardiopulmonary implications of acute and chronic pain, including mechanisms to measure the possible causal sources and various consequences; and interventions that attempt to reduce these consequences.
Dr. Sean Collins is Professor, Chair and Program Director of the Doctor of Physical Therapy program at Plymouth State University. He earned his MS in Physical Therapy in 1994; and his Doctor of Science in ergonomics and epidemiology while he studied the impact of job stress on cardiovascular regulation utilizing electrocardiographically derived indices of autonomic nervous system function (heart rate and QT interval dynamics) in 2003. Since 2005 his scholarly focus has been on “researching research”, developing an approach to clinical epistemology (theory of knowledge) based on a systems theoretic method to causation and mechanistic explanations cast as network structures. In addition to using this general philosophical approach to develop the DPT program at Plymouth State University, he maintains active scholarship in this area that he, in part, communicates its development through a blog (knowledgebasedpractice.wordpress.com). Dr. Collins has served on several PhD committees, has numerous publications and professional presentations (national and international), and serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Cardiopulmonary Physical Therapy journal.
