Deepak Ravindran
Deepak Ravindran
Deepak is Honorary Professor at Teesside University, a full time NHS Consultant in Pain, MSK and Lifestyle Medicine, and Consultant for Pain Medicine and Longcovid service at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, Reading. He is Author of the Amazon Bestseller “Pain Free Mindset”. He serves as the Deputy Editor of E-Pain Platform at FPM/ Health Education England and The Chief Medical officer at Boutros Bear, a digital rehab platform.
Dr Deepak Ravindran adopts a trauma informed ‘upstreamist’ approach to pain practice and has helped set up two award winning NHS services in Berkshire for pain in 2015 and Longcovid in 2020. A Management Honours graduate from Henley Business School, he has been awarded the National Apprentice of the Year (2021) by Chartered Management Institute (CMI).
SUMMARY PAPER
We have understood that pain is complex and has a number of dimensions so the usual biomedical philosophy of drugs and interventions with a bit of CBT isn’t going to help a majority of our patients. While we talk about the biopsychosocial approach to pain, practically, it does mean that we have to incorporate the newer theories of pain such as the Bayesian approach and also integrate a trauma informed model of service delivery. This talk will help the audience understand the newer more integrated approach to comprehensive pain management, the reason why it is more preferred for the patient and why Lifestyle medicine can be the more sustainable option to overcome pain.
VI International Congress of Physiotherapy and Pain 2024.
