With high rates of chronic pain and the opioid epidemic, various strategies are being explored to help patients with chronic pain. In the last 20 years, pain neuroscience education (PNE) emerged in rehabilitation as an evidence-based, clinically applicable approach to help people with chronic pain. PNE aims to teach patients more about their underlying biology and physiology of their pain experience, using metaphors, examples, and images. To date, a dozen meta-analyses and systematic reviews have shown strong evidence for PNE to positively influence pain ratings, disability scores, limited movement, fear-avoidance, pain catastrophizing and healthcare utilization. Additionally, when PNE is combined with behavioral and movement-based treatments (PNE+), it yields even superior results. PNE literature is now becoming common-place in medical journals, and it is proposed that ideally all healthcare providers would collectively use PNE to provide evidence-based, multidisciplinary care for people with chronic pain. First, this lecture aims to update medical providers on the latest neuroscience of pain, followed by a session describing how PNE, along with other non-pharmacological treatments can help people in pain. A key part of the session will delve further emerging research that shows how interaction, especially words used by healthcare providers can increase pain (WordsHARM), but also, more importantly strategies to use to decrease fear, anxiety, catastrophizing and ultimately…pain (WordsHEAL). This session does not only apply to chronic pain, but all phases of pain and a must for all medical providers seeking to decrease pain, disability and suffering of those experiencing pain. This one day course is being offered as a conference course immediately prior to the American Academy of Orofacial Pain Annual scientific meeting May 10-12, 2024 which includes additional learning content relevant to physical therapists working with individual with orofacial pain.