Shona has been a Chartered Physio for 24 years and specialise in chronic pain rehab.  She is  passionate about helping people who have “been everywhere and tried everything” to move forward and recover from chronic pain.  She loves taking a whole person approach to every story.   Shona has worked within the NHS as a specialist physio/ back pain advanced practitioner for 18 years alongside various private clinics she took the leap and opened West End Physio in 2019.  She is a guest lecturer on complex chronic back pain at Glasgow Caledonian University and has previously presented to the British Pain Society and NHS on healthcare pain rehab communication, and outwith the clinic can be heard spouting monthly on the airwaves of BBC Radio Scotland Mornings back pain surgery!   

Join Shona on this highly interactive session if you would like to understand a bit more about how to support your clients with pain to continue and progress their practice.  We will explore …

How to support and communicate with your clients through ”painful times”.  

The different types of pain (not all pain is damage!) and what this means for movement versus rest.  

Hear about exciting pain neuroscience advances and how this has changed how we treat pain and what that means for your (explained very practically!)

We will take time to explore our own beliefs and fears around pain and how that may influence our clients.  We will myth-bust some engrained outdated beliefs around pain!

We will do all this through a couple of real case studies, incorporate a Q and A and you will hopefully leave feeling much more confident in the face of pain!