A Deep Dive into Pain and Its Wonderful (But Awful) Complexity

1-hour webinar from the Chronic Pain Symposium 2025, presented by Dr. Tasha Stanton.
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  • Multiple-choice Quiz
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presentation overview

While tempting to think about pain as a simple experience – i.e., merely a read-out of how badly we are injured – contemporary pain science suggests that this experience is much more complex than we might realise. In this lecture, I will discuss experi-mental and clinical findings that support the presence of numerous and varied contributors to the experience of pain. I will also specifically discuss the physiological spinal and supraspinal processes and adaptations that occur when pain persists. Together, I will use this new knowledge to explore how we may be able to treat pain in ways that have less to do with the body part that hurts and more to do with the processes that occur between your ears (the brain!).

meet the presenter

dr. tasha stanton

Associate Professor Tasha Stanton leads the Persistent Pain Research Group at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) and is co-Director of IIMPACT in Health at The University of South Australia, Adelaide.

She is a clinical pain neuroscientist, with original training as a physiotherapist. Her research focusses on pain – why do we have it and why doesn’t it go away? She has received >$14.7m in competitive research funding, has published >120 peer-reviewed journal articles, and she has been a keynote/invited speaker at >110 national and international conferences. Her research has won both national and international awards, including the World Congress of Pain Ronald Dubner research award, the Australian Pain Society Rising Star Award and the Australian Physiotherapy Association Best New Investigator Award.

Her research group works closely with consumers and with clinicians to identify real-world problems and devise new solutions. She has a specific interest in chronic pain, osteoarthritis, pain science education, and novel technologies, such as virtual and mediated reality, to enhance exercise engagement.
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