Psychology in Long-Term Injury

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Learning Objectives

Understand why performance psychology can play an important role in optimising your clients injury recovery and empowering them to grow as an athlete & person.
Understand how psychology & pain-science informed tools can enhance your skillset as a physiotherapist.
Learn from the lived experiences of an elite soccer athlete living with & overcoming persistent pain.
Understand when and how to refer to a performance psychologist to optimise your clients growth as an athlete & person.

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Effect of Injury on Psychology

Learn how injury and pain affects mental health, performance, rehab progress and overall wellbeing.

Tools to Optimise Rehab

Simon covers 10 tools that you can use to improve the rehab journey to ensure you account for psychological factors influencing recovery.

Mental Health Continuum

Understand how mental health is influenced by various factors and what you can do as a physiotherapist to help your clients

Simon Pearson

M. Psych (Sport & Exercise) | BSs (Psych)(Hons) | BPhysio

Simon brings a broad range of professional and life experience to practising as a psychologist. Simon’s interest in psychology stemmed from a young athlete who became aware of the importance in finding meaning and purpose in life, with Simon completing his first degree in physiotherapy whilst he pursued his passion for competitive road cycling.

Simon has worked as a physiotherapist for 10 years both in Australia and overseas. Over this time Simon’s philosophy to helping people has become more aware of the overlap and strong connection between the mind and body. Simon’s skill-set as both a psychologist and a physiotherapist allows him to understand a problem from a holistic perspective and provide a varied range of solutions to help.

Simon has conducted research into the psychological factors associated with hamstring injuries in the AFL, in addition to completing a systematic review of self-compassion in competitive sport. Simon has also worked with a large organisation of over 200 people to help them manage the transition of acquiring another business.

Simon’s current passion in psychology lies in prioritising and cultivating mental health in sporting teams, with the belief that this will lead to motivated, happy and successful athletes.

Mick Hughes

MSportsPhysio | BPhysio | BExSci

Mick Hughes is an Australian trained Physiotherapist who has recently passed advanced training to become a Sports & Exercise Physiotherapist. He consults at the North Queensland Physiotherapy Centre and has a strong clinical interest in ACL injury prevention and rehabilitation. He sees between 20-30 ACL patients per week; ranging from the acutely injured all the way to 10+ years post ACL reconstruction. On top of his clinical workload, he is also the co-founder of both the Melbourne ACL Rehabilitation Guide and learn.physio – an online continuing education platform for health professionals.