Pain Sciences

Undergraduate | 2026

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Area/Catalogue
REHB 3006
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Course ID
204818
Level of study
Level of study
Undergraduate
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Unit value
6
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Course level
3
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Inbound study abroad and exchange
Inbound study abroad and exchange
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No
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University-wide elective course
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Single course enrolment
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Note:
Course data is interim and subject to change

Course overview

In this course, students will develop an understanding of pain, advance clinical reasoning skills and introduce the principles of pain management within a multidisciplinary framework. This includes: current models for the clinical engagement of pain; the biopsychosocial model of pain; pain mechanisms and contributors; integration of the pain sciences into clinical reasoning models; pain deconstruction into pathobiological mechanisms; identification of risk factors for chronicity; assessment of pain, disability and recovery; principles of acute and chronic pain management; multidisciplinary pain management strategies; common pain conditions.

Course learning outcomes

  • Describe the biological and psychological factors that contribute to a pain experience.
  • Describe the roles of the nociceptive, endocrine, immune, motor, autonomic nervous systems in the experience of pain.
  • Apply principles from the basic sciences to clinical examples using biopsychosocial models of engagement.
  • Identify the psychosocial factors that increase the risk of pain-related disability
  • Identify reliable and professionally accepted outcome measures pain, function and recovery.
  • Formulate an appropriate physiotherapy management program for a patient with chronic pain.
  • Explain pain to a layperson using jargon-free language.

Prerequisite(s)

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Corequisite(s)

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Antirequisite(s)

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