The Lived Experience of Chronic Pain:
Disentangling the Complexity.
Presenter: Dr. Ashley Smith, PT, PhD
Date: Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Time: 12:00 - 13:00 (Mountain Time)
Free virtual education session for all healthcare professionals.
Learning Objectives:
• Briefly review and categorize pain through a nociceptive, nociplastic, and neuropathic pain lens.
• Provide clinical tools to quantify a person's lived experience with persistent pain, incorporating behavioural patient reported outcome measures, subjective and physical examination.
• Determine how examination findings may direct care to appropriate healthcare providers.
About the Presenter: Dr. Ashley Smith, PT, PhD
Ashley has appointments with the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Calgary and McMaster University School of Rehabilitation Science. Ashley has over 50 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters, primarily investigating pain mechanisms, whiplash-associated disorders and orthobiologics. Ashley’s ongoing grant-funded postdoctoral clinical research studies investigate how clinical manifestations of WAD can be modulated, both interventionally and via endogenous analgesia. He is also a member of the Cochrane Musculoskeletal group, investigating the role of spinal injections in people with chronic neck and low back pain. Ashley’s clinical responsibilities revolve around co-ordinating evidence-based inter- and multi-disciplinary care of people with chronic musculoskeletal pain as Director of Rehabilitation and Research at Vivo Cura Health. He is also a tireless patient advocate and volunteers with FAIR Alberta to advocate for the rights of Albertans injured in motor vehicle collisions and was honored to be the first non-lawyer to be recognized for community advocacy efforts on behalf of those people.