Neil Pearson

PT, MSc(RHBS), BA-BPHE, C-IAYT, ERYT500

Neil is a guest speaker for Noigroup, presenting a new course in 2024 – Embodiment in Pain Science Education – co-created with Noigroup instructor Martina Egan.

Neil’s clinical focus has been working with people with chronic pain for most of his forty years as a physiotherapist. Currently, he works clinically in an interdisciplinary team with veterans with complex chronic pain and mental health concerns. Neil is a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia. He has worked as a pain care consultant for the British Columbia Medical Association, Canada’s largest network of 300+ rehabilitation clinics, Partners in Canadian Veterans Rehabilitation Services, and Pain BC, Canada’s premier non-profit working to transform how pain is understood and treated. Neil is the founding chair of the Canadian Physiotherapy Pain Science Division and recipient of the Canadian Pain Society’s Excellence in Interprofessional Pain Education award. Neil is also a yoga therapist, faculty in accredited yoga therapy training programs and subject matter expert in research into the effects of yoga-informed and pain-informed movement practices for people with knee osteoarthritis. Clearly Neil has a passion for pain science and for sharing ongoing evolutions of pain science education with others.

Neil has authored a patient eBook Understand Pain Live Well Again (2008), a book chapter ‘Yoga Therapy’ in Thompson and Brooks, Integrative Pain Management (2016), numerous articles on yoga and pain science including a recent white paper for the International Association of Yoga Therapists – How Yoga Therapy Serves in Comprehensive Integrative Pain Management, and How it Can Do More (2020), and co-authored/edited the textbook Yoga and Science in Pain Care: Treating the Person in Pain (2019).