Cormac Ryan
Cormac Ryan
Cormac is Professor of Clinical Rehabilitation at Teesside University and a Community Pain Champion for the Flippin’ Pain Campaign. He is a physiotherapist by background and his main area of interest is Pain Science Education. Alongside Professor Lorimer Moseley, Cormac is co-lead of PETAL – the Pain Education Team to Advance Learning – an international, multidisciplinary collaborative that seeks to bring deep understanding of current thought in 'how pain works' to health care professionals, consumers and the general public in a way that reduces the occurrence and impact of persistent pain. Professor Moseley provides insight, innovation and dynamism, whist Cormac provides the tea and biscuits.
SUMMARY PAPER
Public understanding of pain is full of misconceptions about “how pain works” and these misconceptions act as barrier to good pain management. The Flippin’ Pain campaign is a UK based public health campaign which seeks to change public understanding of pain away from the outdated structural-pathology based understanding to one which is grounded in the biopsychosocial model. This presentation will describe the key elements of the campaign and provide preliminary evaluation data.
VI International Congress of Physiotherapy and Pain 2024.
