Painful Osteoarthritis: treating pain that is not all about the joint

PAINFUL OSTEOARTHRITIS: TREATING PAIN THAT’S NOT ALL ABOUT THE JOINT

Professor Romy Parker, physiotherapist, Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, University of Cape Town

Monday 15 January  11.15 am  COURSE FEES R110; Staff and students R55

Up to a third of people who have total joint replacements for painful osteoarthritis are still in pain two years later. Conversely, up to a third of people with severe osteoarthritis seen on X-rays have never experienced any pain. Pain is about more than one thing. In this lecture, we will (i) explore the different types of pain which can occur with osteoarthritis, (ii) discuss which type of pain will respond best to surgery; and (iii) discuss non-surgical methods (including eating, sleeping, exercising and breathing) to treat pain in osteoarthritis.

Participants can earn CPD points for this course.

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Romy Parker

Romy Parker is a Professor and Director of the Pain Management Unit in the Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine at the University of Cape Town. She is an active researcher who has successfully supervised numerous postgraduate students. Professor Parker is the course convenor of the Postgraduate Diploma in Interdisciplinary Pain Management, the first programme of its kind in Africa. She is an experienced physiotherapy clinician working in chronic pain management as part of the Chronic Pain Management interdisciplinary team of Groote Schuur Hospital. Her research focusses on pain, with emphasis on developing and testing mechanism-based treatments relevant to a South African context. She serves as a Councillor for the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP - African representative), she is the current past-president of PainSA (the South African chapter of IASP), Past-Chair of the Pain, Mind and Movement Special Interest Group of IASP and an Honorary Life Member of the Pain Management Physiotherapy Group of the South African Society of Physiotherapy. Romy was awarded the UCT Distinguished Teacher’s Award for 2019 – the university’s highest honour for teaching.