Do you consider the first 10 seconds of a consultation to be important? Have you looked at your clinic space and how that might affect your patients? In this podcast Steve Aspinall (BASRaT) speaks to Richmond Stace @painphysio about the importance of compassion and active listening in the treatment of pain.

Richmond is presenting at the BASRaT symposium on the 18th of November in London.

Our Symposium this year will focus on pain; with unmissable keynote speeches from experts in the field and presentations and workshops that will enrich your knowledge.

Focussing exclusively on pain and all its forms and manifestations it will be vital for practitioners to help manage and manipulate pain and help people from all walks of life.

Our unmissable range of speakers includes Richmond Stace who is leading advances in understanding and treating pain and has created the pain coach programme.

Richmond will look into the importance of the first point of contact, how we can gain information from the first few words.

We have a range of workshops including "Gold from Rio"- BASRaT Sport Rehabilitator, Hannah Crowley helped Ed Clancy on his road to recovery from a back injury and to his gold medal win at Rio.

Our closing keynote "Pain, the Brain and a little bit of Magic" will be presented by Professor Anthony Jones. Professor Jones is an MSK pain specialist and leads the Human Pain Research Group.

This one day event on Friday 18th November will be packed full of essential speeches, presentations and seminars, enriching your knowledge and aiding your work.

BOOK NOW. Visit basrat.eventbrite.co.uk.

Timeline:

1:03 How big is the problem of pain?

2:39 What does good communication mean?

8:00 What are the key points in an interview about pain?

12:11 How to pain the patients journey?

16:44 Is neuroscience education important?

18:59 Key messages for the clinician

Links:

http://basrat.org/