Empowered Relief™: A Brief and Scalable Solution for Chronic Pain Management – Beth Darnall

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Watch Stanford pain scientist, clinical psychologist, author and international speaker, Beth Darnall, PhD as she introduces Empowered ReliefTM. Empowered ReliefTM is a NIH-funded single-session 2-hour intervention that rapidly equips participants with effective pain relief skills. Remarkably, this method provides advances in scalable behavioral medicine for pain management that may be delivered by ALL healthcare providers! You won’t want to miss this opportunity to discover a method that can make behavioral pain care broadly accessible to your patients, thereby avoiding a singular focus on interventional and procedural approaches to chronic pain management only. Backed by four separate randomized controlled clinical trials conducted at Stanford University, Empowered ReliefTM complements traditional treatment strategies for meaningful ‘whole-person’ pain management.

Speaker

Beth Darnall, PhD, is Associate Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine. She is Director of the Stanford Pain Relief Innovations Lab. Dr. Darnall has twice briefed the U.S. Congress and the FDA on the need for patient-centered pain care and opioid stewardship. She is a scientific member of the NIH Interagency Pain Research Coordinating Committee and served as a scientific member of the CDC Opioid Workgroup. she is Chief Science Advisor for AppliedVR and serves on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Pain Medicine. Her work has been featured in outlets such as Scientific American, NPR Radio, BBC Radio, and Nature. She has authored five books for patients and clinicians on pain and opioid reduction. In 2018, she spoke on the psychology of pain relief at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Dr. Beth Darnall has employment relationships with Applied VR, the NIH, PCORI, Institute for Brain Potential , and Stanford University. She receives royalties as a published author. Dr. Darnall receives a speaking honorarium as a National and International speaker. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Non-financial: Dr. Beth Darnall is a member of the International Association for the Study of Pain, American Academy of Pain Medicine, and the American Psychological Association.

Objectives

1. Compose two outcomes for Empowered ReliefTM in chronic pain scientific studies.
2. Investigate how scalable and digital behavioral medicine is being applied within various healthcare systems internationally.
3. Assess how Empowered ReliefTM is supporting chronic pain management and surgical recovery.
4. Investigate evidence-based strategies for increased client engagement, treatment adherence and increase the likelihood of overall treatment success.

Outline

• Introduction
• • What is the clinical relevance of pain?
  • Financial Implications
  • Pain driven procedural/interventions approach to ‘fixing pain’
  • Opioid crisis
• The Problem
• • Brief review of current models and limitations
  • Pain driven treatment
  • Lack of behavioral/psychological involvement for self-management
  • Accessibility to proper care is limited on many fronts
• A Solution​​​​​​​
• • 2-hour pain management intervention – Empowered ReliefTM
  • Pain neuroscience, self-regulatory skills to address pain and stress
  • Rooted in CBT theory
  • Evidence-based skills, includes mindfulness principals, relaxation strategies
  • Didactic delivery vs. therapy – allows large class size
• The Science​​​​​​​
• • Four randomized controlled trials conducted at Stanford University
  • Efficacy at 3- and 6-months post class
  • NIH-funded randomized controlled trial supports non-inferior 2-hour Empowered ReliefTM as compared to 8-sessions (16 hours) of cognitive behavioral therapy
  • Multidimensional outcomes: reduced pain intensity, interference catastrophizing, sleep disturbance, depression, anxiety, pain bothersome and fatigue
  • Enduring effects for Empowered ReliefTM at 6-months posttreatment comparable to 16 hours of CBT
• Adoption
  • 300 clinicians certified across varied health disciplines
  • Delivered in 12 countries in 6 language translations
  • Cleveland Clinic Spine Surgery requirement
• Conclusion
• • Precipice of change in pain management approach and delivery
  • Accessible evidence-based, integrated pain treatment
  • Alter how healthcare is received for reduced health and pain care disparities to our most vulnerable patients
  • Inspired visions – reduce suffering by meeting patients where they are

Target Audience

• Chiropractors
• Physical Therapists
• Physical Therapy Assistants
• Occupational Therapists
• Occupational Therapy Assistants
• Other Rehab Health Professionals

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