“I Don’t Do Pain Science” Says Sports Injury Specialist

An emerging Sports Injury Practitioner has made it clear that he doesn’t “Do Pain Science”.

Cooper Brady, 27, a Physiotherapist with aspirations for a top job in an NRL or AFL organisation sat for an interview with our reporter to discuss the sometimes controversial topic of pain science in relation to clinical practice.

“I think all the pain science stuff is great! It’s just not my cup of tea, you know? It doesn’t really apply to me. I mean, I deal with sports injuries among elite athletes, I don’t have a use for a mirror box or a rubber hand! And I highly doubt my patients are interested in having me listen to their story or validate their concerns about their injury prognosis. They’d much prefer I cut them off mid sentence and jam my thumb through their psoas while yelling at them to engage their VMO and push their tongue to the contralateral roof of their mouth”.

Mr Brady reflected on his own journey as a talented high school athlete, revealing that “I never had a chronic pain problem. Athletes don’t need that stuff. They don’t need reassurance about their future, they just want to know when they can play again! They don’t need pain education, they just wanna know what the problem is! And finally, they aren’t scared of their pain, they just don’t want their injury to end their career! Pretty simple really… I’ll leave the pain science stuff to the chronic pain clinics”.