Moira Packenham Walsh Memorial Lecture, London 1988. Chasing Pain and Inventing Techniques.

World Congress of Physiotherapy, The Barbican, London 1991.  Chasing pain and inventing Techniques.

Olive Sands Memorial Lecture – OCPPP Annual Conference, Bristol 1993.  Examining and treating signs of neural tension. 

Swiss National Physiotherapy Congress, Davos, Switzerland, June 1994.  Pain Mechanisms and their recognition for Physiotherapy – a new approach for the 1990’s

The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy: Conference on ‘Physiotherapy and Back Pain. June 1994, London. ‘Adverse Neural Tension.’

Society of Orthopaedic Medicine and The British Institute of Musculoskeletal Medicine, December 1994, London: ‘Nerve palpation and its relevance in peripherally driven neuropathic pain syndromes.’

Moving in on Pain Conference – Adelaide, Australia,  April 1995.  ‘Fluid movement may partially account for the behaviour of symptoms associated with nociception in disc injury and disease.’

CSP Congress Scarborough, 1995,: Central pain mechanisms and chronic pain disability.

CSP Congress Scarborough,1995: Workshop- Central pain mechanisms and RSI.

Royal Alexandra Hospital 10^th Anniversary Symposium ‘The Treatment of Pain’.  October 1996.  ‘Pain and Physiotherapy’.

IFOMT –ECE conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands April 1997.  Recurrent and ongoing back pain – Collagen? Or the Nervous system?

McKenzie Institute UK Conference and AGM: November 1997.  Neurobiology of Pain, consequences for diagnosis and management.

6^th Nordic Congress on Manual Therapy.  Oslo, March 1998.  The Mature Organism Model, the disc and the sciatic nerve.

6^th Nordic Congress on Manual Therapy.  Oslo, March 1998 Case History: The shift from a passive-therapy-structure-orientated-and-focus-on-pain approach, to a self management and functional restoration approach.

OCPPP 45^th Annual Conference ‘Balancing our Act’.  April 1998. Pain, the tissues and the nervous system.

OCPPP 45^th Annual Conference ‘Balancing our Act’.  April 1998. Workshop: Integration of pain mechanisms into diagnosis, clinical reasoning and management.

Reading Shoulder Seminar, September 1998.  Neural Sensitivity – evaluation and differentiation.

Danish Sports Medicine Conference, Copenhagen, November 1998. ‘Pain Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine’.

International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) World Congress.  Vienna, August 1999.  Workshop – ‘Explaining Pain To Patients’.

7^th Nordic Congress on Manual Therapy – ‘Low Back Pain, Clinical and Scientific Update’.  September 1999, Copenhagen, Denmark.  ‘The Implication of pain science for the prevention of chronicity’.

Chartered Society of Physiotherapy Annual Congress – Birmingham, October 1999. “New treatments, new assessments, new thinking: time for questions, time for change?”

Chartered Society of Physiotherapy Annual Congress – Birmingham, October 1999. ‘Why should the disc bother to hurt?  An Introduction to Darwinian Reasoning.’

Chartered Society of Physiotherapy Annual Congress – Birmingham, October 2000. ‘Physical Examination, pain, sensitivity, impairment and disability’

International Physiotherapists in Private Practice Association Eastbourne – workshops – Nerve root.

NVMT conference, Eindhoven, Holland, 23^rd March 2001- Lecture: Impairments, disabilities and barriers – ‘The shopping basket approach’

NVMT conference, Eindhoven, Holland, 23^rd & 24^th  March 2001- Workshop: ‘The shopping basket approach’: case histories, clinical reasoning and management.

Placebo study day: Treliske Hospital, Truro, 5^th April 2002.  Evolutionary reasoning and the placebo.

Conference: How to explain the inexplicable: Subjective Health Complaints, Chronic Pain, Stress and other Phenomena.  A one day Southwest regional meeting hosted by the Pain Management Department of the Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust at the Alverton Manor, Truro. 14^th of May 2003 .  Presentation: The Vulnerable organism.

 9^th National Conference on Pain Management Programmes.  11-12 September 2003.  John Innes Centre and University of East Anglia, Norwich.  Pain biology and clinical reasoning

 Danish Physiotherapy Congress: ‘Fagfestival’.  Denmark November 20-22nd 2003   Keynote lecture: Chronic pain: If we know how it starts can it be stopped? (The vulnerable organism)

Danish Physiotherapy Congress: ‘Fagfestival’.  Denmark November 20-22nd 2003   Workshop: Biopsychosocial factors – using a ‘shopping basket approach’

Norwegian Association of Sports Physiotherapy Conference, Lillihammer  Feb 6th & 7^th 2004:

• Pain biology and clinical reasoning
• An introduction to pain mechanisms
• Integrating the biopsychosocial model – ‘The shopping basket approach’
• The ‘shopping-basket’ in practive – ‘graded exposure’

NVMT Conference Eindhoven Holland  March 12^th & 13^th 2004 Workshop: Chronic pain: If we know how it starts can it be stopped? (The vulnerable organism).

NVMT Conference Eindhoven Holland  March 12^th & 13^th 2004 Keynote lecture: The challenge of evolutionary reasoning.

OCPPP Conference Nottingham:  ‘Turning Heads’ The East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham  24^th – 25^th April 2004  – Workshop: Why does acute pain sometimes become chronic pain?

OCPPP Conference Nottingham:  ‘Turning Heads’ The East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham  24^th – 25^th April 2004  – Workshop: The shopping basket approach and graded exposure

Integrated musculoskeletal trauma conference (IMTC) Waterfront Hall Belfast.  25-27 May 2005-02-24. Complex Regional Pain Syndrome and pain management.

Chartered Society of Physiotherapy Annual Congress, Birmingham International Conference Centre:  October 7^th 2005: ‘The vulnerable organism: chronic pain, if we know how it starts can it be stopped?’

 Irish Society of Chartered Physiotherapy Annual Congress, The Kilkenny Ormonde Hotel,  Kilkenny, Eire. ‘The vulnerable organism: chronic pain, if we know how it starts can it be stopped?’

Physio First Conference, East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham University. April 1^st 2006.  Red and Yellow flags and improving treatment outcomes: Or:  ‘Top down before bottom up’.

Swiss Association of Physiotherapy Congress 2006, Lausanne, Switzerland, Saturday 22^nd April:  Fear Avoidance – is therapy a part of the problem?

 Swiss Association of Physiotherapy Congress 2006, Lausanne, Switzerland, Friday 21^st April: ‘Meet the expert’ session: Graded exposure for acute and sub-acute back pain.

Norwegian Association of Manual and Sports Physiotherapists Conference: Storjfhell, Norway, February 2007 – ‘Chronic pain: if we know how it starts can it be stopped?’

Norwegian Association of Manual and Sports Physiotherapists Conference: Storjfhell, Norway, February 2007 – Chronic pain: permanent or curable?

Norwegian Association of Manual and Sports Physiotherapists Conference: Storjfhell, Norway, February 2007 – Sub acute low back pain case history: ‘The twisted ankle approach to low back pain’.

 Physiotherapy Pain Association (PPA) Northern Branch 2007.  Glasgow, February 8^th 2007.  Invited Speaker, Lecture day, ‘I’m hoping you can cure me!’

Rehabworks Ltd, Bury St Edmonds, Suffolk, May 13^th, 2008 ‘Tricking Pain’

Oxford Physiotherapy,  Wheatley, Oxford,  March 20^th ,2009 ‘Problem pain patients assessment, treatment and management’

Cornwall and IoS NHS Community Health Services,  Pain Symposium, Truro, May 12^th 2009 ‘Good Pain, Bad Pain, Explain Pain’