Pain Unstuck: Merging Pain Science And Exercise Training For Chronic pain解脫慢性痛： 結合痛症科學及運動訓練

The course takes participants on a journey to consider pain as a deeply personal, conscious experience. This means pain doesn’t live in the tissues, nor in the brain. Rather, pain sits somewhere in between, emerging from the delicate dance between sensory information and your unconscious predictions.

Using case studies of my patients, participants will learn how to help their patients understand that it is safe to move, feel that it is safe to move, experience safe movement and repeatedly move with confidence. Learning objectives include:

• Viewing pain through the lens of active inference
• Understating the evidence for exercise as a treatment for persisting pain
• Recognising the importance of structural pathology and screening for increased risk of serious pathology
• Retraining the sensorimotor system through sensory precision training, implicit and explicit pre-motor training, and feedback-enriched and goal oriented movement.
• Extending your subjective examination to incorporate the person and their wider world
• Experimenting with movement as a form of learning
• Planning a comprehensive exercise rehabilitation programme for persons with persisting pain
• Aligning existing treatments (e.g. manual therapy, taping, etc) with this active inference perspective of pain

Ciarán Ó’Seachnasaigh, Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist

Scott Murray, Musculoskeletal and Sports & Exercise Physiotherapist and practice owner

“Oh! What a great feeling to be on course again! Especially when there is a course with a fantastically knowledgeable lecturer, who also masters the art of disseminating knowledge in a good way. There is a lot of humor, good subject matter, no shortcuts or unfounded simplifications. Delicious! The material in the course was exactly what I’d hoped for, and then some!”

Magnus Barføtt Håmsø, Manipulative Physiotherapist and Clinic Owner

About Dr Merv Travers & Optimise Rehab

Optimise Rehab is run by Dr Merv Travers PhD.

Merv is a Senior Lecturer working in the area of low back pain, tendon pain and exercise rehabilitation at The University of Notre Dame Australia.

Merv lectures in the Advanced Anatomy & Pathology, Applied Clinical Sports Science and Sport Rehabilitation units in the Musculoskeletal and Sports Physiotherapy Masters programmes at Curtin University, Australia. He also lectures on merging exercise and pain science in the Physiotherapy Masters programme at Aalborg University, Denmark, as well as other international engagements.

He completed his PhD at Curtin University where he also maintains an Adjunct Research Fellow role. He has a Masters of Manipulative Therapy and is a qualified strength & conditioning coach (Australian Strength and Conditioning Association – Level 2).

Merv’s clinical background includes working in professional rugby union and he provides clinical consultation for complex musculoskeletal conditions.