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GRASP Best Practice Advice and Exercise Programme for Shoulder Pain (FutureLearn)

Offered by University of Exeter,

Advice and exercise for rotator cuff related shoulder pain and improve your patients’ quality of life. Discover the benefits of the GRASP Best Practice Advice and Exercise Programme. Rotator cuff related shoulder pain is a common condition that causes impaired function. Regular exercise and advice play a crucial role in improving and managing pain and the ability to perform day-to-day activities. This two-week course for health professionals will introduce you to the GRASP (Getting it Right Addressing Shoulder Pain) Best Practice Advice and Exercise Programme to help improve treatment in your clinical practice.

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The GRASP trial conducted by the Centre for Rehabilitation Research at the University of Oxford showed that a single GRASP best practice and advice session with a physiotherapist was likely to be cost-effective and is not significantly different in terms of clinical outcomes when compared with physiotherapy intervention of up to six face-to-face sessions.

Learn how to deliver the GRASP programme for patient rehabilitation
The experts at the Centre for Rehabilitation Research will guide you through the GRASP programme.
At the end of the course, you’ll have the ability to administer the programme and minimise your patients’ pain through advice and exercise.

Explore behavioural support strategies for managing shoulder pain
You’ll explore self-management advice and behaviour-change strategies to empower your patients with the tools to cope with the mental side effects of their pain and to help them exercise regularly.

Learn from the experts at The University of Oxford
You’ll learn from a multidisciplinary team of physiotherapists, clinical academics, trial staff, and CBT practitioners.
With the expertise of these medical professionals, you’ll be empowered to implement the GRASP programme in your own practice to improve the lives of your patients.

Syllabus

Week 1: Introduction and background to the course
Week 2: Delivering the GRASP programme in clinical practice

What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

Describe the impact of shoulder pain due to rotator cuff disorders
Summarise how GRASP Best Practice Advice and Exercise Programme (GRASP programme) was developed
Apply the GRASP programme to adults with a new episode of shoulder pain (i.e., within the last 6 months) attributable to a rotator cuff disorder
Use behavioural support strategies to help patients exercise regularly
Reflect on implementing the GRASP programme and behavioural support strategies in your clinical practice

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