Explain Pain Second Edition - E-book - ePub

Associate Professor David Butler, B. Phty, M. App. Sc, EdD Understanding and Explaining Pain are David's passions, and he has a reputation for being able to talk about pain sciences in a way that everyone can understand. David is a physiotherapist, an educationalist, researcher and clinician. He pioneered the establishment of the Neuro Orthopaedic Institute. David is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of South Australia and an honoured lifetime member of the Australian Physiotherapy Association. Among many publications, his texts include Mobilisation of the Nervous System 1991 The Sensitive Nervous System (2000), and with Lorimer Moseley, Explain Pain (2003, 2013), The Graded Motor Imagery Handbook (2012), The Explain Pain Handbook: Protectometer (2015) and in 2017, Explain Pain Supercharged.
His doctoral studies and current focus are around adult conceptual change, the linguistics of pain and pain storytelling. Professor Moseley is a Pain Scientist with a background in physiotherapy, neuroscience and psychophysiology. Lorimer combined his clinical work as a Physiotherapist with research - a PhD at the University of Sydney Pain Management Research Institute and research positions at the University of Queensland, University of Sydney and Oxford University, UK. Lorimer's many appointments include: University of South Australia's Inaugural Chair in Physiotherapy and Professor of Clinical Neurosciences, Chair of PainAdelaide Stakeholders' Consortium, CEO for the non-profit grassroots movement Pain Revolution, director of the newly established Innovation, Implementation & Clinical Translation in Health ('IIMPACT in Health') and is also supported by an NHMRC Leadership Investigator Grant.