Editor’s note: This seminar is the latest event in a series of seminars launched in May 2020 to help keep the pain research community connected during the COVID-19 pandemic and to provide all members of our community with virtual educational opportunities. The seminar series is supported by the Center for Advanced Pain Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas, US.
The IASP Pain Research Forum hosted a seminar with James McAuley, PhD, University of New South Wales and Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney, Australia, on Wednesday, January 27, 2021, 6-7 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (Thursday, January 28, 2021, 10-11 a.m. Australian Eastern Daylight Time [AEDT]). A Q&A session moderated by Adrian Traeger, PhD, University of Sydney, Australia, followed the presentation.
A recording of the seminar is now available on the IASP Pain Education Resource Center here.
Here is an abstract from the presenter
Educating patients about their pain is an important part of clinical management. Over the last 15 years, pain education has evolved to become a stand-alone intervention, sometimes called Explain Pain, Pain Neuroscience Education or Pain Biology Education. Although commonly used in clinical practice, there is some uncertainty whether pain education is effective, and if it is, for whom? This talk will use data from a recently published randomized controlled trial of pain education for acute low back pain to understand how clinicians might optimize the effects of pain education.
About the presenter
James McAuley, PhD, is a psychologist, professor in the School of Medical Sciences at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, and a senior research scientist at Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA). He completed his PhD at Brunel University, London (2003). After immigrating to Australia in 2004 he took up a postdoc at the University of Sydney and then at the George Institute for Global Health. In 2010 he moved to NeuRA where he set up the Centre for Pain IMPACT (Investigating Mechanisms of Pain to Advance Clinical Translation). In 2017 he was appointed as associate professor in the exercise physiology department at UNSW. James’ research combines experimental, clinical, and translational methods to develop and test new interventions to manage low back pain. James has published more than 180 articles (Google Scholar, ORCID) and holds over more than $10 million in research funding. He is regularly invited to give talks at conferences and scientific meetings. James has supervised 18 PhD students and mentored four postdocs. James is the chair of the back pain group of SPHERE MSK and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) for the Australian and New Zealand Musculoskeletal Clinical Trials Network (ANZMUSC). In 2015 James founded the NSW network for pain PhD students/ECRs (SPRiNG).
About the moderator
Adrian Traeger, PhD, is a physiotherapist and NHMRC Early Career Fellow. He has a special interest in the evidence-based management of low back pain. Adrian worked in primary care for 10 years before completing a PhD in medicine from the University of New South Wales. He has published his research in leading journals such as BMJ, JAMA, and JAMA Internal Medicine. Adrian’s current research focus is on strategies to reduce overdiagnosis and overtreatment of low back pain. He is a full-time research fellow at the Institute for Musculoskeletal Health, The University of Sydney, and teaches at Sydney Medical School.
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We thank the Center for Advanced Pain Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas, US, for its support of the PRF seminar series.
