OUTLINE

Back pain is so much more than biomechanics or pathology.

It’s time to treat it that way.

The evidence is clear: back pain is best understood through a whole-person, biopsychosocial lens — not just pathology, posture, or tissue damage.

Modern clinical practice can feel overwhelming & many clinicians leave formal education feeling underprepared to treat in a contemporary BPS way.

Rehab for Painful Backs is a course about back pain, but not only back pain. What you’ll learn applies to many pain problems, across patients, sports, and settings.

We break down the complexity of back pain while helping you treat patients in a simpler, more human, and more effective way. You’ll develop practical skills across the full biopsychosocial spectrum — without getting lost in theory.

We do the heavy lifting for you — bringing together the latest high-quality research, and showing you exactly how to apply it in YOUR practice.

This course provides a clear, evidence-based framework for clinical reasoning that reduces confusion, anxiety, and guesswork — for both clinicians and patients. Whether you’re a new grad or an experienced clinician, you’ll leave feeling more confident, calm, and capable.

We move beyond the outdated biomedical model — one that has failed many people in pain — and toward a modern, integrated biopsychosocial approach.

You’ll learn:

• BPS model & modern pain science for 2026

• Psychology & communication skills

• Exercise & movement prescription

• Motor learning principles

• Back assessment 

All aimed at a patient-centred, active approach to rehab.

This isn’t a passive course. Expect discussion, movement, and challenge. From group problem-solving and case studies to practical, movement-based tasks, you’ll feel what your patients feel — and understand them better because of it.

This is not a list of exercises you could’ve watched on YouTube.

It’s about thinking better, communicating better, and cutting the unnecessary fluff that doesn’t help people in pain.

Be ready to move, reflect, debate — and have some biases challenged.

Taught across 5 continents, 30+ countries, and to hundreds of clinicians and coaches, this course blends evidence, experience, discussion, laughter, and movement into one powerful learning experience.

What you will get

• Gain comprehensive back pain knowledge that will help you understand, explain, assess & treat back pain from a truly evidence-based position
• Simple ready to use strategies for common back pain problems 
• A brand new streamlined pain science approach. Lose the complex neuroscience explanations
• Psychologically informed communication & interviewing strategies to help people ‘make sense’ of painful problems
• BPS exercise ‘prescription’ model that moves beyond just the tissue
• An ability to confidently navigate uncertainty in diagnosis & treatment
• Appreciate movement variability and dynamic systems theory to forget “good/bad” movement/exercise models
• Learn an exercise dosing model that redefines pain & exercise

Who is it for?

• Anyone with a passion to learn & help painful problems
• Those open to new ideas and concepts and the latest research

Who is it not for?

• Those expecting simple protocols or quick fixes
• Unwilling to engage in learning
• Not looking to update their current knowledge & paradigm

Content

• 40% Lecture
• 30% Practical
• 15% Discussion
• 15% Case study