Do you have an interest in back pain? For this year’s Lecture, we are presenting something a bit different -an exposé on back pain.
Back pain is one of the world’s greatest public health challenges. It is the leading reason we visit the doctor, the leading reason we take time off work, the biggest cause of disability worldwide.
The 2023 Koadlow Community Lecture will be presented by Liam Mannix, a multi-award-winning national science reporter for the The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald. Liam is one of the many who live with back pain, and he takes his own experience as a starting point for his recently published and highly praised book of the same title.
In the Lecture, Liam will provide an overview of many of the developments and approaches in the management of back pain. He will then outline a new theory that has emerged in the last 20 years, born from cutting-edge neuroscience. It claims back pain often has little to do with the back or the discs or the spine. Instead, back pain is all about the brain. This new science offers new solutions - including, remarkably, evidence that just by teaching people the new theory of pain we can reduce it.