We are pleased to share that NeuRA Senior Research Scientist, Director of Centre for Pain IMPACT and Professor at UNSW Medicine & Health, James McAuley, has been awarded $2.5 million under the 2024 Medical Research Future Fund (#MRFF) to compare the effectiveness of graded sensorimotor retraining

We’re at the Australian Pain Soc conference this week! Don’t miss Harrison Hansford’s talk on how we can reliably identify patient subgroups using observational data. Panel with Prof Manuela Ferreira and Steven Marsh #AusPainSoc #PainResearch

Come see my poster at #AusPainSoc

Great session on post-amputation pain 100 years of progress from IASP President Andrew Rice, Dr Heather Batten, Jack Devonshire & Jackson Linke. Fascinating insights from historical records, current practice and the state of the research and exciting TITAN trial #AusPainSoc

Fascinating talk from Michael Ferraro about his work on a Cochrane review on Ketamine for chronic pain. Evidence is still very uncertain and influential studies excluded for trustworthiness concerns. Centre for Pain IMPACT

Awesome talk from rising star Mia Ryan on GP and people with low back pain perspectives of mobile health apps for the management of pain. High quality, trustworthy apps are needed. Thankfully the Centre for Pain IMPACT team is doing a clinical trial of such an app! #AusPainSoc

Great session on post-amputation pain 100 years of progress from IASP Jackson Linke presenting the future of nonpharmacological intervention for post-amputation pain - TITAN trial #AusPainSoc

Fascinating talk by James McAuley overviewing the evidence based treatments for low back pain. The takeaways: 1. We have enough trials for exercise 2. We have evidence based treatments, we just need them implementwe 3. Promising new treatments provide sustained benefit #AusPainSoc

Wonderful to have Prof Andrew Rice at NeuRA (Neuroscience Research Australia) this week giving advice to Centre for Pain IMPACT PhD students, and presenting his work on the IASP position statement on use of cannabis and cannabinoids for pain relief.

New podcast Exercise Science, Studies show podcast with centre PhD student Yannick Gilanyi talking about process evaluations of RCTs amongst other things. open.spotify.com/episode/1fwXUi…

Dr Nell Norman-Nott was recently interviewed by 7NEWS Australia to discuss the latest findings on Pain and Emotion Therapy. This innovative approach is a promising step forward in how we understand and treat chronic pain. Watch the full interview here: youtube.com/watch?v=t8ww3M…

Now published in the European Journal of Pain, this study reveals that (posttraumatic) #stress impacts #brainstructure differently in people with #chronicpain vs pain-free controls. Key regions: putamen, insula, and middle cingulate. doi.org/10.1002/ejp.70…

What actually works for lower back pain — and what doesn’t? Rodrigo Rizzo & Aidan Cashin break it down for GPs 👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️ Read here ➡️ insightplus.mja.com.au/2025/18/what-w… #BackPain #GPs #PainManagement

Meet our team! Nahian Chowdhury

A trial of an interactive game that trains people to alter their brain waves has shown promise as a treatment for nerve pain – offering hope for a new generation of drug-free treatments. 🔗 Full story: buff.ly/7mEHmFQ NeuRA (Neuroscience Research Australia) UNSW #PainManagement

At this morning’s all-staff meeting at @NeuraAustralia, we reflected on #ReconciliationWeek and our commitment to walking alongside First Nations peoples. We also marked the #WorldDayForAssistiveTechnology — celebrating research that supports inclusion, access, and independence.