Physiotherapist Pain Rehabilitation

To use specialised clinical reasoning skills to provide specialist assessment and treatment of complex patients as a practitioner within Optimise Pain Rehabilitation Service.

To provide high quality clinical input for persisting pain patients.

• To undertake comprehensive assessments of patients presenting with multiple pathologies, using bio-psychosocial clinical reasoning skills, knowledge of evidence based practice, and rehabilitation expertise. To develop accurate diagnoses. Demonstrate awareness of knowledge in the field of pain management. Develop new skills in response to emerging knowledge and techniques.
• Assess patients attending Optimise Pain Rehabilitation Unit and refer to the most appropriate programme, including assessment for hydrotherapy, psychology and individual sessions. To participate in the running of the Get Back Active and Pain Management programmes. To see patients on an individual basis where appropriate.
• To have knowledge of pain neurophysiology (e.g. pain matrix, neuroplasticity, peripheral and central sensitisation, centrally generated and maintained pain).

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

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Leila Heelas

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Physiotherapy Department

Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre,

OX3 7LD

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