Start your day off on the right foot.

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+ Diversity as a Catalyst for Change:
+ Understand the pivotal role of diversity in driving innovation and change.
+ Recognize the benefits of varied perspectives in problem-solving.
+ Promoting Outside-the-Box and Integrative Thinking
+ Develop a holistic approach to challenges by integrating diverse ideas.
+ Learn techniques to think beyond traditional boundaries for creative solutions.
+ Embracing Failure as a Learning Opportunity
+ Appreciate the importance of mistakes in the innovation journey.
+ Acquire strategies to analyze and pivot from failures, fostering resilience

In 2018, Ryan, a member of the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team, was involved in a tragic accident that changed his life forever and left him paralyzed from the chest down.

During his presentation, Ryan will speak about his story of triumph over adversity and his courageous rehabilitation journey, including his management of acute and chronic pain. He will also share his experience about the day-to-day challenges he faces living with a disability and his motivation and strength to overcome them.

Network with our exhibitors and other attendees!

Join us for a Presentation by Grover Law: 'A Personal Injury Lawyer Living with Chronic Pain'

+ Update current understanding of migraine pathophysiology.
+ Discuss conventional migraine therapeutics.
+ Discuss novel migraine therapeutic options.

+ Identify key 5 aspects of mindfulness and acceptance-based practices that can be discussed with individuals experiencing chronic pain.
+ Describe 1 or more key practices that they can use with their patients to enable them to begin or continue their pai management journey.
+ Explain key principles of mindfulness and acceptance-based approaches as applied to the management of chronic pain.

+ Exploring broader theoretical framework and offering suggestions clinicians can use in session to help move clients forward in a way where clients are becoming empowered and independent.
+ Recognize how to challenge clients who are struggling with engagement or follow through using purpose and meaning.
+ Encourage clinicians to be more mindful in their actions and approaches with clients, increasing a client's sense of control and confidence, which ultimately strengthens the relationship between clinician and client as well.

Take a break and nourish yourself! This is a great time to network with our exhibitors and other attendees.

Join us for a presentation by Teva Canada

+ Develop an approach to clinically diagnosing chronic back pain.
+ Utilize appropriate guideline-based management to organize interventional pain procedures for patients.
+ Decipher and understand the interventional tools available to manage patients in the community.

+ Differentiate trigeminal neuropathy from trigeminal neuralgia.
+ Learn what pharmacology approaches may work best for these conditions.
+ Articulate why a multidisciplinary approach is advised in the management of these conditions.

+ Identify client concerns with sexual intimacy in medication, movement, and mind challenges.
+ Provide support to clients who require further education and assistance in sexual intimacy and
chronic pain.
+ Explain the importance of addressing sexual intimacy and chronic pain with clients.

+ Understand the basic framework and process for applying pacing in the clinical context.
+ Identify individual barriers that can create challenges for effective application of pacing.
+ Explore solutions to overcome barriers.

Network with our exhibitors and other attendees!

+ Apply resources to engage people living with chronic pain in physical, psychological, and preventive approaches to pain management.
+ Review a patient worksheet to support pain self-management.
+ Discuss a pathway for chronic pain management in primary care settings.

+ Recognize and integrate the importance of individuals' cultural and ethnic stories in their healing journey.
+ Appreciate the value and importance of a collaborative team-based approach to chronic pain and increasing patient participation in their healing journey.

+ Describe the epidemiology and burden of migraine disease among children and adolescents.
+ Formulate a treatment plan for treating attacks of migraine acutely in children and adolescents.
+ Develop a preventive treatment plan for children and adolescents with migraine.

+ Identify the underlying anatomy of the pericranial nerves.
+ Formulate and refine injection techniques to minimize pain and bleeding.
+ Comprehend the rationale, and learn approaches, for combining nerve blocks and sphenopalatine ganglion blocks with Botox injections.

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Please join us at this formal celebratory event for adults only. A cash bar will be available.

The winners of the conference passport will be announced. Winners must be in attendance.