APTA Learning Center

Enhance your expertise in chronic pain with the APTA Persistent Pain Certificate, a six-course series available as individual courses or as a comprehensive certificate program.

APTA Persistent Pain Management: Navigating Barriers and Trauma-Informed Care

In this two-part series, explore the systematic and individual challenges patients encounter in accessing persistent pain care, and how these barriers and disparities may impact your role as their practitioner. Learn about trauma-informed care at the healthcare system's level, exploring the public health sector of a patient's experience. 

CEUs: 0.4 (4 contact hours)

APTA Pain Science and Trauma-Informed Care in Persistent Pain Management

Equip yourself with essential knowledge of pain mechanisms, the biopsychosocial framework, and trauma-informed care from the patient's perspective. 

CEUs: 0.4 (4 contact hours)

APTA Persistent Pain Evaluation: Pain Profiling and Clinical Decision-Making

Improve your assessment skills and learn about the latest developments in pain phenotyping to help identify patients using a treatment-based classification system. 

CEUs: 0.6 (6 contact hours)

APTA Psychologically Informed Care: Designing Better Treatment Programs for Persistent Pain

Enhance your pain management skills with psychologically informed strategies that focus on understanding pain as a multidimensional experience, effective communication, and the integration of psychological approaches into clinical practice.

CEUs: 0.6 (6 contact hours)

APTA Evidence-Based Interventions: Advancing Persistent Pain Care

Equip yourself with evidence-based interventions and strategies to enhance pain management, including graded motor imagery, manual therapy, exercise, and telehealth applications. 

CEUs: 0.6 (6 contact hours)

APTA Persistent Pain Management in Pediatrics, Tendinopathy, ACL Reconstruction, Emergency Care, and Complex Presentations

Learn evidence-based pain management strategies for diverse populations, including pediatric patients, older adults, individuals with lower limb loss, and those with movement-evoked pain or injury-related fears. This course also covers pain management in the emergency department and explores complex patient case scenarios. 

CEUs: 0.4 (4 contact hours)