23/07/2025
This month’s edition of InMotion (the Australian Physiotherapy Association magazine) features an interview with our Clinical Director, Soph Shephard, about her recent presentation at the Australian Pain Society conference.
Soph’s PhD focuses on rural pain management, and in this piece she talks about the importance of taking a critical look at how power, privilege, and structural bias shape health care - especially when it comes to who is included (or excluded) from research, policy, and decision-making. At Vive, this kind of big-picture thinking underpins how we approach care. We believe that improving pain management means not just better clinical skills and tools, but also asking the hard questions about equity, access, and lived experience, especially for people in rural and remote communities.
You can read the full article here: https://australian.physio/inmotion/shifting-needle-pain-management
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