A Lifestyle Approach for Managing Persistent

Musculoskeletal Pain


08-09 November 2025

  • The number of participants

    25 Participant

  • Course Duration

    2 Days

  • Location

    İstanbul

  • Course Language

    English

  • Price

    300 Euro

  • Pre-registration Fee

    100 Euro

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COURSE CONTENT

Persistent musculoskeletal pain, including but not limited to low back pain, headache, neck pain, osteoarthritis, shoulder pain, fibromyalgia, temporomandibular disorders, has a tremendous personal and socioeconomic impact. Lifestyle factors such as physical (in)activity, sedentary behaviour, stress, poor sleep, unhealthy diet, and smoking are associated with persistent musculoskeletal pain severity and sustainment1-7. This applies to all age categories, i.e. persistent musculoskeletal pain across the lifespan. Yet current treatment options often do not, or only partly address the many lifestyle factors associated with persistent musculoskeletal pain, or attempt to address them in a standard format rather than providing an individually tailored multimodal lifestyle intervention1,8,9.Therefore, this course addresses this lacuna by teaching clinicians to address various lifestyle factors concomitantly into an individually-tailored multimodal lifestyle intervention for people having persistent musculoskeletal pain10. Such a lifestyle approach is lots of fun for clinicians, especially when to succeed in engaging their patients into the treatment program11. This course is dedicated to learning clinicians to enjoy their work with musculoskeletal pain patients more. Ultimately, this should lead to a higher clinical impact with higher effect sizes and subsequently decreasing the psychological and socio-economic burden of persistent musculoskeletal pain in the Western world.

Learning Objectives:

At the completion of this course, learners will be able to:

1. Identify the relevant lifestyle factors in patients with persistent musculoskeletal pain;

2. Assess lifestyle factors in patients with persistent musculoskeletal pain;

3. Apply a lifestyle approach for managing persistent musculoskeletal pain in clinical practice;

4. Improve their clinical reasoning by integrating lifestyle factors for patients with persistent musculoskeletal pain – this way learners will learn to think beyond muscles & joints;

5. Treat relevant lifestyle factors in patients with persistent musculoskeletal pain;

6. Address various lifestyle factors concomitantly into an individually-tailored multimodal lifestyle intervention for people having persistent musculoskeletal pain.

Program

Day 1

09.00 Introduction

09.15 Lifestyle and persistent musculoskeletal pain: the role of stress, sleep, physical activity, diet, alcohol & smoking

11.00 Coffee-break

11.15 Lifestyle factors in patients with persistent musculoskeletal pain in clinical practice: skills training identification, assessment, and clinical reasoning skills using case studies

13.00 Lunch

14.00 Clinical reasoning skills and shared decision making in lifestyle management for patients with persistent musculoskeletal pain

15.30 Coffee break

15.45 Engaging patients into a lifestyle approach for managing persistent musculoskeletal pain through pain science education & motivational interviewing: skills training

17.00 End of day 1

Day 2:

09.00 Behavioural change towards an active lifestyle & self-management skills for improving sleep in patients with persistent musculoskeletal pain

11.00 Coffee-break

11.15 Self-management skills for improving diet (nutritional support) in patients with persistent musculoskeletal pain

13.00 Lunch

14.00 Self-management skills for improving stress tolerance in patients with persistent musculoskeletal pain

15.30 Coffee break

15.45 Exercise therapy & physical activity interventions for patients with persistent musculoskeletal pain

17.00 End of course

Educational Modes:

The course content will be delivered through a mixture of methods, including:

– interactive lectures

– demonstrations

– practical skills training

– illustrations

– case studies

The course uses a combination of educational modes in order to optimize implementation in clinical practice and to address implementation barriers12.

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