Vive Pain & Fatigue

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Vive Pain & Fatigue is an innovative online health service offering compassionate, whole-of-person care to people living with persisting pain, chronic fatigue & invisible illnesses.

Registrations are now live for our brand-new, online course for health professionals...Neurodiversity-Affirming Care: Co...
19/03/2026

Registrations are now live for our brand-new, online course for health professionals...

Neurodiversity-Affirming Care: Core Principles and Clinical Applications in Rehabilitation and Pain Management Settings.

This online half-day course (running Saturday, May 16) focuses on bridging the gap between theory and practice, covering the foundations and key concepts underpinning neurodiversity-affirming and neuroinclusive care, before exploring practical, clinically relevant adaptations within rehabilitation and pain management settings. Suitable for all health professionals, especially those who work in the rehabilitation or pain management space!

Early bird pricing applies for registrations before April 12. Team pricing also available (please contact us at courses@vivepainfatigue for more information). Please note, places are limited (max 30), and given we already have ~50 expressions of interest, it's likely that spaces will go fast!

Please feel free to share with anyone you think may be interested. You can register online or find out more at https://www.vivepainfatigue.com.au/courses/neurodiversityaffirmingcare

08/02/2026

NOW STREAMING: check out our latest episode of Beyond Pain and Fatigue. Soph was joined by the founder and CEO of the Australian POTS Foundation, Dr Marie-Claire Seeley, to chat all things Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (commonly known as POTS). There's something for everyone in this chat, whether you're a patient, a healthcare professional new to POTS, or someone working a lot in this space. Find it (and all other episodes) on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or YouTube!

NOW STREAMING: check out our latest episode of Beyond Pain and Fatigue. Soph was joined by the inimitable Dr Jason Lam t...
15/01/2026

NOW STREAMING: check out our latest episode of Beyond Pain and Fatigue. Soph was joined by the inimitable Dr Jason Lam to chat all things mast cells and challenges of assessing and managing complex invisible illnesses. Find it (and all other episodes) on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or YouTube!

10/11/2025

We are privileged to have had Dr Oli Meredith join us on the Beyond Pain and Fatigue podcast to discuss their research, focused on experiences of ADHD and Autism in women and gender diverse folk. They discuss masking, the relationships between neurodivergence and pain/fatigue symptoms, and the importance of recognising bias and inequity in research and health care. Listen to the whole episode now, on all podcast platforms (link in bio)

Important update regarding services at Vive:
09/10/2025

Important update regarding services at Vive:

First hand proof that pacing is sometimes much easier understood/said than done… in case it isn’t clear, this is a great...
03/08/2025

First hand proof that pacing is sometimes much easier understood/said than done… in case it isn’t clear, this is a great example of what NOT to do if you’re trying to pace and stay within your energy budget. Oops.

How good was the first 6 days of the week though!

26/07/2025

Spreading the word about POTS 🔈

In Episode 4 - Jennifer Smallridge from Invisibly Brilliant & Connection Medicine Co. shares so many gems for the clinician and patient living with, and helping those with chronic invisible illness.

🎙️Check out the "Beyond Pain and Fatigue" podcast - now live on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube: https://zencastr.com/Beyond-Pain-and-Fatigue or link in bio. Subscribe now to receive updates for new episodes, or check out our webpage for written episode summaries and further resources.

🌿Follow for more on persisting pain, chronic fatigue, and invisible illnesses (including ME/CFS, POTS, Long COVID, hypermobility/EDS). Need support? Access online integrative physiotherapy, Australia-wide (link in bio).

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25/07/2025

Using AI to be more mindful and centred in the clinic room 🤖

We were so lucky to have Jennifer Smallridge of Invisibly Brilliant , one of the co-founders of Connection Medicine Co. . join us on the podcast for episode 4. Listen in for her story of starting out in the invisible illness clinical space, and how she came to teach other clinicians how to better care for those with invisible illness and in the process, look after themselves better too.

🎙️Check out the "Beyond Pain and Fatigue" podcast - now live on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube: https://zencastr.com/Beyond-Pain-and-Fatigue or link in bio. Subscribe now to receive updates for new episodes, or check out our webpage for written episode summaries and further resources.

🌿Follow for more on persisting pain, chronic fatigue, and invisible illnesses (including ME/CFS, POTS, Long COVID, hypermobility/EDS). Need support? Access online integrative physiotherapy, Australia-wide (link in bio).

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23/07/2025

We were so lucky to have Jennifer Smallridge from Invisibly Brilliant , and one of the co-founders of Connection Medicine Co., join us on the podcast for episode 4. She chats to us about the origins of her working with Florence Kelly and how she came to find her clinical specialty in chronic invisible illness.

🎙️Check out the "Beyond Pain and Fatigue" podcast - now live on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube: https://zencastr.com/Beyond-Pain-and-Fatigue or link in bio. Subscribe now to receive updates for new episodes, or check out our webpage for written episode summaries and further resources.

🌿Follow for more on persisting pain, chronic fatigue, and invisible illnesses (including ME/CFS, POTS, Long COVID, hypermobility/EDS). Need support? Access online integrative physiotherapy, Australia-wide (link in bio).

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This month’s edition of InMotion (the Australian Physiotherapy Association magazine) features an interview with our Clin...
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

🌿Follow Vive Pain & Fatigue for more on persisting pain, chronic fatigue, and invisible illnesses (including ME/CFS, POTS, Long COVID, hypermobility/EDS). Need support? Access online integrative physiotherapy, Australia-wide (link in bio).

⭐If you liked this post, please share/tag a friend!

Huge news here at Vive - congratulations to Ollie, who has been accepted into the Masters of Philosophy at the Universit...
04/06/2025

Huge news here at Vive - congratulations to Ollie, who has been accepted into the Masters of Philosophy at the University of Queensland. We’re excited for him to be starting his journey as a researcher, and fear not - he’ll still be working in the clinic, and putting new knowledge and insights into practice.

Congrats Ollie! 🎉

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Keen to work with Ollie? He currently has capacity for new patient assessments at Vive. Check out our website (link in bio) to get started.

07/05/2025

Ehlers Danlos Awareness Month

Flexible.

Let’s talk about flexibility.

Because if EDS has taught me anything — it’s that word.

Physically? I’m FAR too flexible.
And that’s at the heart of some of my biggest challenges. Most of it can’t be seen unless I show you. You don’t see how loose my joints are. How they don’t stay in place. How I don’t feel the stretch in my muscles like most people do.

In this photo, I had no idea what I was doing wasn’t normal. I was just trying to get relief from the discomfort deep in my joints. It wasn’t until Mum stopped me and took this photo that I really saw it — what it looked like to others, and what I was doing to my body.

Now? I don’t knowingly allow myself to stretch to end ranges anymore. Even when my body is screaming for relief, I try to resist. Because I know what’s at stake. Protecting my joints matters.

But here’s the thing:
EDS didn’t just make me physically flexible.
It’s taught me flexibility in every other way, too.

It’s taught me how to:

➡️ Adapt quickly and pivot when life changes
➡️ Go with the flow and adjust my sails
➡️ Compartmentalise to cope when there’s too much at once
➡️ Change plans on the fly — constantly
➡️ Navigate relentless pain while carrying on
➡️ Be my own nurse, first aid team, and advocate
➡️ Let go of what I can’t control
➡️ Hold tight to what (and who) matters most
➡️ Treasure what I have now, not knowing how long I’ll have it
➡️ Honour what I can do today — even if I can’t tomorrow
➡️ Celebrate the smallest wins
➡️ Dig deep, stay soft, and keep showing up - especially on the hard days

Living with EDS isn’t easy. Every day, there’s a list of things I have to do just to live.

But it’s also given me resilience, depth, grit, perseverance, perspective—and a reason to celebrate the little things.

And I’m proud of that.

So yes — flexibility can be dangerous in the wrong context. But in the right ones? It’s one of the greatest strengths I’ve learned.

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