What Health and Fitness Professional Need to Know about Pain Science - Dr Joshua Pate (Pt3) - Practitioner’s Viewpoint Series

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In his late twenties, Josh reduced his hours working as a senior physiotherapist to do a PhD at Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia). His fascination with factors that influence health outcomes for people feeling pain drove him deep into the world of trying to work out what people think about pain.

To begin to solve these mysteries, a tool was needed. So, he developed the Concept of Pain Inventory (COPI) and published it in 2020. Josh is passionate about making learning more accessible. He wants the next generation of humans to learn more of the complexity of the science of pain; a growing body of research is showing the importance of this education.

Since being awarded his PhD, he is working as a Lecturer in Physiotherapy at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Building learning resources like children’s books and online animations, he is researching how people think about the science of pain, and how that relates to their pain and level of disability.

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