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🕒 Limited time left: Grab your early bird ticket to EP3 to secure your seat for what promises to be a pretty snazzy few days!
It’s community, it’s knowledge, it’s fun!

WHO: David Butler , Lorimer Moseley AO , Tasha Stanton + others
WHERE: ZINC, Federation Square Melbourne, VIC Australia
WHEN: March 28, 2025 - March 30, 2025

For more detail access:
https://www.noigroup.com/ep3-2025/

The incredible David Butler on The Physical Performance Show.
Listen on the link below! 🎙️

📢Our latest Expert Edition of "Explaining Pain" featuring Associate Professor David Butler.

David delves into the intricacies of pain, discussing its mechanisms, significance, and impact on our health and well-being.

📌 Episode is now LIVE wherever you enjoy your podcasts

Are you going to IASP this year? Or do you live near Amsterdam?

Then take a break from the heavy stuff and join us for a ton of fun at the Le Pub Quiz Night!

Just £25 (includes 2 drinks🍻🍻) for a brilliant night out at the famous Brouwerij en Proeflokaal Breugem Brewery!

Beer ⭐ fun ⭐ friends!
See you there!
Cheers! 🍻

Register here: https://shop.eventix.io/0df50fcd-911a-11ee-a9cb-7e126431635e/tickets?shop_code=xk96v79q

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Final spots available for 'Explain Pain Online'! Live, interactive, and accessible worldwide.

Join Brendan Mouatt in August 2024 for Explain Pain Online.

Noigroup 'Explain Pain' courses are fun, intellectually stimulating, based on evidence, always challenging, and integrate the Explain Pain ecosystem of Explain Pain, The Explain Pain Handbook: Protectometer, and Explain Pain Supercharged. You will come away with the most impressive therapeutic tool set ever!

Don't miss out – register now!
👉👉👉 https://www.noigroup.com/event/explain-pain-online-au-30/

Want to attend Professor Lorimer Moseley's Pain Science in Practice course in NYC this October?

Here's your chance!
, and the Healthy Wealthy & Smart podcast w/ have teamed up with us and are giving you the chance to win a free ticket to this exclusive event!

What’s the course about? After more than four years, Professor Moseley is back in the US with insights from cutting-edge pain science research. Learn to integrate pain science into your practice with the fit-for-purpose model and Resolve approach. Enhance your clinical impact with new tools and empower your patients towards recovery from chronic pain.

To enter: Click on the link below. It is that easy!
https://www.noigroup.com/nyc-giveaway/

Hurry, the contest ends July 30th, with a winner chosen on July 31st. Good luck!

Did you have a close look at the post image? What is weird about it? This talks to our latest Noijam blog post…

In this Noijam, Oscar Hutton, a neuroscientist and doctoral researcher at Loughborough University, will take you into the fascinating world of sensory illusions and their connection to how we make sense of our world and body. Oscar explores how we interpret bodily sensations and how these interpretations can sometimes be a little different to what we might expect. He discusses his research investigating innovative approaches using sensory illusions to help patients and their support networks better understand the complex nature of pain. Discover how these mind-bending experiences may open new conversations about pain treatment and potentially change the way we think about persistent pain. Enjoy!

To read the blog access:
https://www.noigroup.com/noijam/what-can-we-learn-about-pain-from-mind-blowing-illusions/


Happy reading!

Partner with us for EP3 – a great sponsorship opportunity!
We are thrilled to announce sponsorship opportunities for EP3 2025 in Melbourne. This premier event will attract over 200 healthcare professionals, offering an exceptional opportunity for your brand to gain significant exposure.
Partnering with Noigroup connects you to a well-established brand that has earned respect in the industry for over three decades. You will be:

• engaging with an enthusiastic audience of industry leaders, researchers, and practitioners
• benefitting from prominent branding across all event materials, social media, and direct marketing
• demonstrating commitment to advancing healthcare and patient outcomes
• supporting educational initiatives in the pain management field
• showcasing your own brand, products and/or services with the potential to form new partnerships or collaborations

With a unified voice, together we can drive improvements in pain science understanding, treatment and, ultimately, patient outcomes!

Sponsorship opportunities are limited, so if you are interested, please review the sponsorship prospectus:https://www.noigroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/noigroup-ep3-2025-sponsor-prospectus.pdf

**This course is approved 13.25 CEU credits for PTs in the PTAs in USA**

Explain Pain courses make contemporary pain sciences accessible and understandable for all. Explain Pain works to reduce catastrophisation and negative pain beliefs and when combined with active treatment, reduces pain and enhances return to work and play. Our courses are intellectually stimulating, based on evidence, always challenging, and integrate the Explain Pain ecosystem of books so that you come away with the most impressive therapeutic tool set ever!

Previous participants' feedback:
'Ben is an excellent teacher, interesting, sharp and ties together complex concepts into understandable chunks.' EP Online registrant, Feb 2024
'I think all of the PTs in the practice should attend this program.'
'Good course especially for new grads working with persistent pain population'
'Thank you so much - this information will help me help my clients. Ben and Jeff are both engaging presenters - I will definitely take another. I did like the participation factors as well.'

3 Session/s Pacific Time zone
Friday August 16, 2 - 6 pm
Saturday August 17, 9 - 5 pm
Sunday August 18, 9 - 1 pm

Small class sizes to maximise interaction and time for questions
Delivered via Zoom
Comprehensive teaching materials provided
Prices inc. online sessions, workbook

ℹ️ Find more info at:
https://www.noigroup.com/event/explain-pain-live-online-us/

Are you interested in doing a PhD with one of the world’s most respected pain research groups? 🎓🎓🎓

Our friends at the Persistent Pain Research Group, NeuRA, and Body in Mind have multiple clinically-relevant PhD opportunities commencing in 2024 and 2025.

If you are a clinician experienced in working with people with persistent pain, and want to work alongside international experts in pain research...
YOU could gain a PhD by contributing to cutting-edge clinical trials and public education initiatives.

To find out if you are eligible and express your interest…

The ReconNECKt Trial: Contact Dr Felicity Braithwaite at [email protected] or visit www.neckpaintrial.com/researchers

The EQUiPP Project: Contact Dr Louise Wiles at [email protected]

NeuRA Projects: Contact Dr Aidan Cashin at [email protected] or visit https://neura.edu.au/project/phd-scholarship-opportunities

Early bird tickets are now on sale for the popular EP3 event, happening March 28-30 next year!

Join us for three intense days of mind-blowing pain science insights, epic talks, and the usual Noigroup perks and quirks.

Headlined by Lorimer Moseley, Tasha Stanton, and David Butler, with additional influential speakers discussing the latest healthcare research.
Held at Melbourne's iconic Fed Square, Zinc offers easy access and great entertainment options.

Link in Bio.

Explore the fascinating world of threat perception and its impact on our behaviour in our latest noijam blog. In this Noijam, Erin MacIntyre, a clinician-researcher from the Persistent Pain Research Group (SAHMRI), explores her recent systematic review, published in Clinical Psychology Review, on how our perception of our environment and how we act in that environment can be shaped by threat. She discusses some of the clinical implications and what this means in recovery. Enjoy!

Read this blog and explore others also with a pain science focus at www.noigroup.com/noijam/

🎓EXPLAIN PAIN + GRADED MOTOR IMAGERY (GMI) 3-day course in Singapore, August 21 to 23, 2024. Last tickets – registration closing soon!

Presented by Dr. Brendon Haslam (B App Sc (Physio) M Physio (Neurological) PhD MACP) this is a unique opportunity to undertake two courses in a shorter three-day format. As a clinician with more than 25 years of experience working with clients with chronic pain, Brendon strives to ‘bring the clinic’ to each course, ensuring that there is plenty of time for the in-depth ‘I’ve got this patient who…’ questions.

Don’t miss this opportunity. Noigroup’s courses are fun, intellectually stimulating, based on evidence, always challenging, and integrate the Explain Pain ecosystem of books and resources. You will come away with the most impressive therapeutic tool set ever!

SGD 1600 pp, includes workbook, lunches and a free Noigroup mirror box (value AU$50)
Hosted by: BREMJ Aca-Physio Courses

Explain Pain Online School – Participate live or watch on demand
Explain Pain School is delivered over eight weeks, with two-hour live sessions each week and extensive clinical mentoring; the extended format has been a revelation for deep understanding and flexible clinical application of the Explain Pain approach.
The beauty of this course, all of the sessions are recorded.
This means you can join live, catch up later on demand, or simply just watch the session again on replay.

https://www.noigroup.com/event/explain-pain-online-summer-school/

Sweet Zone - Dr. Tash Stanton.

Reteaching bodily protection responses through insight and movement exploration.
Bodily Relearning is a book for all healthcare providers and movement specialists who are actively helping those suffering from persistent pain.

Altering how we think about our body can profoundly influence how we feel and how we behave in our environment. Here's Dave providing a nice example that may be powerful for some in reconceptualising their knees and the benefits of movement. Taken from our Knee Osteoarthritis Handbook. Motion is Lotion!

Dr. Prakkash Sharoff has been teaching Noigroup’s classic and longest-running course, Mobilisation of the Nervous System, in India since 2011 and consistently receives great praise for his presentations.

This comprehensive lecture and hands-on course integrates the latest research on neurodynamics and neuroimmune science. It provides a clinical reasoning framework to identify patients who will benefit from neuroimmune mobilisation. The research is compelling – the immune system’s interaction with the nervous system is critical in learning, memory, movement, and sensitivity.

This new understanding integrates peripheral and central processes and targets therapy towards achieving a healthy neuroimmune balance.

The course updates and refines essential practical skills needed to examine and manage the physical health of the nervous system. Skilled, safe, and appropriately timed handling techniques are covered in detail during labs and practical sessions.

To register, find the course listing on the noigroup.com/events/ page or email: [email protected]

This webinar is designed for physical therapists, occupational therapists, and psychologists aiming to enhance their hands-on and off treatment interactions with the latest in pain science. Delivered by Luke Bongiorno, who brings extensive pain science knowledge and experience working with elite NBA, NFL athletes, and various actors and artists, this session focuses on integrating contemporary pain science into practical manual therapy techniques.

Participants will learn about combining specific breathwork techniques, mindful movement, and psychologically informed practice to maximize patient outcomes, ensuring a comprehensive approach to pain management.

https://www.optp.com/webinar-series

The folklore surrounding intervertebral disc injury has inspired some wildly descriptive and unhelpful language.
'Slipped' disc wins by a mile, but you can also 'blow' a disc,
'bulge' a disc, 'pop' a disc, even say l've 'got' a disc. We once heard someone say that they had 'mulched' a disc! You could use more medical terms and say you have a ruptured, herniated or pr*****ed disc. Googling images of prolapse is definitely not helpful!

This is a fantastic short blog from a few years back where David Butler discussed unhelpful language and some useful retorts.

https://www.noigroup.com/noijam/yet-another-way-to-injure-a-disc/

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In this Noijam blog post from a few years back, Cody Weisbach looks at Anil Seth's argument in his (incredibly popular) TED talk called
Your Brain Hallucinates Your Conscious Reality.
Key points Cody takes from the talk:
- Perception is Based on a Best Guess
- Perception is Based on Many Inputs, Some from the Outside World, Many if Not More are Internal
- Perception isn't Passively Experienced, but Actively Created
Pain is a conscious experience and therefore if you want to understand pain, you need to know a thing or two (or three!) about consciousness and perception. Anil Seth's TED talk covers a lot of ground for being only 17 minutes long. Do yourself a favour and go watch the whole thing.



Link: https://www.noigroup.com/noijam/hallucinations-consciousness-and-pain/

Lorimer Moseley is a pain researcher, educator and clinician. He has authored over 420 scientific articles and seven books. His contribution to the science of ‘how pain works’, the development of innovative treatments, and extensive public outreach activities, have resulted in prizes and awards in 14 countries. In 2020, he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for ‘distinguished service to the science and management of pain, to science communication, education, and physiotherapy, to humanity at large’.

He is the only known person to be able to detect a left-hander who thinks they are actually right handed and in a recent survey, 3 out of 10 people ranked him as ‘probably not the worst singer they have heard'.

📅 Date: 28th-30th March
📍 Location: Melbourne, Australia
But wait, there’s more! You now have a chance to win 1 of 3 free tickets to the event. Enter the competition through the link!🔗
https://www.noigroup.com/ep3-2025/

Tasha Stanton is a physiotherapist and Associate Professor of Clinical Pain Neuroscience. She leads the Persistent Pain Research Group at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) and is co-Director of IIMPACT in Health at the University of South Australia.

Her research tries to better understand why we hurt and what we can do about it. She holds expertise in osteoarthritis pain and in using new technologies, such as virtual reality, in the assessment and treatment of chronic pain. She has won numerous awards for her research and her scientific communication.

🎤🐱🍷 Her special skills including karaoke, herding cats, and finding cool wine bars. Should you like your name hidden somewhere in her presentation, she accepts bribes in the form of Pinot Noir.

📅 Date: 28th-30th March
📍 Location: Melbourne, Australia
But wait, there’s more! You now have a chance to win 1 of 3 free tickets to the event. Enter the competition through the link! 🔗
https://www.noigroup.com/ep3-2025/

Earlybird tickets on Sale June 7, 2024

Associate Professor David Butler is another of our key 2025 EP3 lineup that needs no introduction – but will, without doubt, leave you in stitches.

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 Neuro Orthopadic Institute (Noigroup) in the early 1990's. 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 story telling. Food, wine and fishing are also research interests.

Ensure you get to EP3 and be enthralled by David's storytelling and incredible knack for pain education.

EP3 - Melbourne, 28th - 30th March
To win yourself 1 of 3 free tickets to EP3, you are invited to enter our competition.
>>> https://www.noigroup.com/ep3-2025/

To win yourself 1 of 3 free tickets to EP3, you are invited to enter our competition.
https://www.noigroup.com/ep3-2025/

EP3 isn't just an event – it's community, it's knowledge, it's fun. And guess what? We’ve got some legendary speakers lined up: Lorimer Moseley, David Butler, and Tasha Stanton, plus some amazing guests! 😉 And we're curious – who are you hoping the guest speakers will be? 👇
📅 Date: 28th-30th March
📍 Location: Melbourne, Australia
But wait, there’s more! You now have a chance to win 1 of 3 free tickets to the event. Enter the competition through the link in our bio! 🔗

Why is starting to move more so difficult? What does experiencing pain have to do with it? Join this exclusive webinar to find out!

Our friends at the Persistent Pain Research Group at the University of South Australia are putting on a free event on Tuesday, June 4, at 2 pm (Adelaide, Australia time). This looks to be a great event that will explore physical activity, pain, perception, and what we’ve learnt from recent research that alters how we might think about getting started.

What you can expect:

➡️Dr Carolyn Berryman (UniSA) will discuss getting youth with chronic pain moving and regaining function as the way to start changing the chronic pain picture.
➡️Dr Aleksandra Herman (UniSA, Nencki Institute) will explore how persistent pain may affect our decisions about engaging in effortful tasks.
➡️Ms Erin MacIntyre (UniSA)will explain how experiencing pain may affect the way we perceive the world.
➡️Dr Brian Pulling (UniSA) will delve into how researchers and clinicians use different types of assessments to understand the link between pain and activity

The session will be chaired by Associate Professor Tasha Stanton (SAHMRI).

https://sahmri.zomm.us/j/82052260550

Mark your calendars because EP3 is hitting Melbourne on the 28th-30th of March! 🌟 Get ready for a weekend of mind-blowing pain science, epic talks, and a community like no other.
This isn't just an event – it's a cool, exclusive club that anyone passionate about pain science can join. And guess what? We’ve got some legendary speakers lined up (hint: you won’t want to miss this!). 😉
📅 Date: 28th-30th March
📍 Location: Melbourne, Australia
Stay tuned for more juicy details! What are you looking forward to most about Melbourne that makes it so effin' cool? Drop your thoughts below!

One of the top small conferences in the pain science community, this event offers ripper pain science knowledge (to state the obvious), wholesome ideas with a side of fun and laughter. Headlining 2025 will be two of the most influential names in pain science: Professor Lorimer Moseley AO and Associate Professor David Butler, supported by a series of highly influential speakers discussing the most recent research impacting healthcare. For event details, follow the link in bio 🔗

How would describe your ideal EP3 event in 3️⃣ words... Go! 👇

It has been four years since a string of popular EP3 events – three great speakers over three insightful (and fun) days – and in response to a strong request for another Noigroup event we are delighted to announce that, yes, EP3 will be returning in 2025! For event details, follow the link in bio 🔗

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