Frequently Asked Questions

Jay is a musculoskeletal physiotherapy educator and clinician. He is passionate helping clinicians translate evidence into practice through personalised face-to-face and online mentoring. He has extensive experience as an undergraduate and postgraduate educator in the university sector and provides professional development and mentoring for graduate clinicians in their practice. 

• PhD | MSc Musc. Physio | BSc Physiotherapy
• Titled Member of the Australian College of Physiotherapy
  
• Clinical Consultant at Flex.Physio
• Clinical educator

Riikka is a musculoskeletal physiotherapy researcher and educator. She is pasionate about identifying best practice rehabilitation and enabling ways for clinicians to deliver that care.

• Physiotherapist
  
• PhD | PT
• Consultant at MoveDoc
• Clinical educator

Ian is a musculoskeletal physiotherapy educator and clinician with a particular interest in the management of persistent musculoskeletal pain disorders. His research focus is how person-centred communication is enacted in physiotherapist-patient interactions.

• PhD | MSc Musc. Physio
• Director and clinician - Brook Physio
• Clinicial educator

Pete is an internationally recognised as a leading clinician, researcher and educator in musculoskeletal pain disorders. Over the past 20 years, Pete and his team have developed a novel management approach for people with disabling low back pain – called 'Cognitive Functional Therapy'. Pete's passion is to bridge the gap between research and practice – in order to empower researchers, educators and clinicians in the provision of person-centred care for people in pain.

• Specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist*
• Director Body Logic Physiotherapy
• John Curtin Distinguished Professor Curtin University

JP is an emerging leader in the field of chronic pain, particularly the management of back pain and osteoarthritis. He is passionate about mentoring clinicians to ensure the highest level of care is provided in clinical practice. Born and raised in Brazil, JP also speaks Portuguese fluently and is committed to affordable translatable knowledge that is accessible to clinicians regardless of country.

• Specialist Sport Physiotherapist*
• Titled Pain Physiotherapist
• Director Body Logic Physiotherapy
• PhD | MSc Musc. & Sports Physio 
• Adjunct Clinical Senior Researcher - Curtin University

Peter is a musculoskeletal pain researcher and was the lead researcher on the RESTORE trial for people with low back pain. For more than 20 years he practiced as a Physiotherapist & Chiropractor.

• Clinical Epidemiologist
  
• PhD | Grad.Dip.Manip.Physio | B.App.Sc.(Physio) | B.App.Sc (Chiro) 
• Adjunct Associate Professor - Curtin University & Macquarie University
  
• Mindfullness teacher

• PhD | MSc Musculoskeletal Physio | BSc Physio
• Director and Clinician at Health In the Center (Bergen, Norway)
• Associate Professor at University of Bergen (UIB)
• Lecturer for Musculoskeletal Masters programme (UIB)
• Clinical educator

Wim is a musculoskeletal physiotherapy clinician, researcher and educator with a particular interest in the integration of a multi-dimensional clinical reasoning process and person-centred communication to enhance self-management in patients with persistent musculoskeletal pain disorders.

• Professor of Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy - University of Leuven, Belgium
• PhD – PT – MT
• Clinical Director and Clinician - @PVMT, Tienen, Belgium
• Clinical educator

• Specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist
• Master of Manipulative Therapy (Curtin University)
• Co-owner Spine & Mind Fysio
• Coordinator of Unit for Cross Sectional Cooperation (spinal care) - Spine Centre of Southern Denmark

• Specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist
• BSc | M Research
• Clinical educator
• Guest lecturer University of Coventry and University of Leicester
  

• Consultant Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist and clinical academic at University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire
• PhD | MSc Advanced Musculoskeletal Practice

• Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist
• Multidisciplinary Pain Centre, Odense University Hospital 
• Co-owner Spine & Mind Fysio