Noigroup USA
Noigroup USA offers online and face-to-face courses that employ contemporary educational strategies to deliver a deep understanding of pain and its treatment. Online participants can choose various courses across different time zones and other time formats to choose the best fit for their busy clinical schedules. Current courses offered include Explain Pain, Graded Motor Imagery, Mobilisation of the Neuroimmune System and MasterSession.
The essence of Noigroup USA
Our vision is to seed ‘healthy notions of self through neuroscience knowledge’ worldwide. There are currently five critical conceptual change issues that underpin this:
- Injury or disease does not mean that you feel pain
- The nervous system moves and stretches as we move
- Pain, stress, and performance are outputs of the brain
- Knowledge and movement are the most significant pain and stress, liberators
- Nervous system plasticity gives new hope and technique
The biopsychosocial approach, or the merging of the biology of human pain, stress, and performance with the psychological and social environment, is the basis of the Noigroup educational philosophy.
Assessment and management of the physical aspects of the nervous system and brain sciences with a focus on neuroplasticity – mainly how the brain represents our body – is an important focus.
Overall, the nervous system is a remarkable, mobile, complex, plastic, and changeable organ that impacts acute and chronic injuries and diseases. The Noigroup education system covers acute and chronic musculoskeletal, central, peripheral, and neuropathic pain states.
Current courses
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01 Apr 2023
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Graded Motor Imagery, Livermore, CA
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CA, United States | Details | |
02 Jun 2023
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3 |
Explain Pain Live Online, WC, US
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CA, United States | Details | |
16 Nov 2023
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3 |
Explain Pain Live Online, US/AU/NZ
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CA, United States | Details | |
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Continuing Education Units
CEUs for Physical Therapists only.
This course is subcontracted to Redefine Health Education (RHE) for CE credit. RHE has reviewed and approved all components of this curriculum to ensure it meets requirements in all the states in blue on the map on this webpage:www.redefinehealthed.com/ceuinfo. RHE is a registered CE approval agency of the PT Board of California, a rule-approved CE provider of the PT Board of Florida (#50-32784), a licensed CE sponsor of physical therapy continuing education by the Illinois Department of Financial & Professional Regulation (IDFPR #216.000360), an approved continuing competence provider by the APTA North Carolina (#22-0729-033), an approved CE provider of the PT Board of New Mexico, an approved CE provider of the PT Board of Oklahoma (#BAP202310010) and recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Physical Therapy as an approved sponsor of PT/PTA continuing education. In addition to the aforementioned jurisdictions, courses approved by other state boards & APTA chapters will be accepted for licensure credit inall the jurisdictions listed on this webpage, pursuant to regulation: www.redefinehealthed.com/ceuinfo. If you have a specific question about CE credit for this course in your state, please direct your inquiry, including the course title in which you are interested, to info@redefinehealthed.com.
Explain Pain (online & face-to-face) is approved for 13.25 Contact Hours
Graded Motor Imagery 2-day course is approved for 13.25 Contact Hours
Graded Motor Imagery 1-day course is approved for 6.75 Contact Hours
Mobilisation of the Neuroimmune System is approved for 14.25 Contact Hours
Explain Pain Applications: clinical discussion – is approved for 8.5 Contact Hours
See below for all the details on continuing education credits and to see which jurisdictions are included in the RHE-certificate program:
Faculty

Luke Bongiorno - Director Noigroup
Luke graduated from The University of Melbourne and is currently in clinical practice in New York. One of New York City’s most prominent physical therapists, Luke, practices a ‘hands-on’ approach combining his advanced manual skills with neuromuscular/exercise and education. Luke believes that education is fundamental in optimizing patient recovery and performance. He has taught advanced skills courses in Manual Therapy internationally since 2004 and has been on the NOI faculty since 2015.
Luke has extensive experience managing acute and chronic pain and sports injuries; Luke treats professional and Olympic athletes and touring performing arts/dance company members. He currently serves as a consultant with the NBA League and European soccer professional teams.
Ben Boyd
Ben works as a Physical Therapist at Stanford ValleyCare in Livermore, California where he specializes in persistent pain conditions, working with both individual clients and group classes. He has worked as an outpatient Physical Therapist in multiple practice settings within the San Francisco Bay Area, seeing patients with a variety of neuromusculoskeletal complaints. He received certification as an Orthopaedic Clinical Specialist through the American Physical Therapy Association in 2008.
In addition, Ben was an Associate Professor at Samuel Merritt University in Oakland, California for 12 years, where he taught in their entry-level Physical Therapy Program. He continues to work as an Adjunct Associate Professor for this program, teaching on a part-time basis. Ben has been teaching courses on peripheral nervous system anatomy, biomechanics, clinical evaluation, and intervention since 2004 and he joined the NOI US teaching faculty in 2013.
Ben originally graduated from the joint program at the University of California, San Francisco and San Francisco State University (UCSF/SFSU) with a Masters of Science in Physical Therapy in 2002, returning in 2008 to earn his Doctor of Physical Therapy Science degree.


Ben Boyd
Ben works as a Physical Therapist at Stanford ValleyCare in Livermore, California where he specializes in persistent pain conditions, working with both individual clients and group classes. He has worked as an outpatient Physical Therapist in multiple practice settings within the San Francisco Bay Area, seeing patients with a variety of neuromusculoskeletal complaints. He received certification as an Orthopaedic Clinical Specialist through the American Physical Therapy Association in 2008.
In addition, Ben was an Associate Professor at Samuel Merritt University in Oakland, California for 12 years, where he taught in their entry-level Physical Therapy Program. He continues to work as an Adjunct Associate Professor for this program, teaching on a part-time basis. Ben has been teaching courses on peripheral nervous system anatomy, biomechanics, clinical evaluation, and intervention since 2004 and he joined the NOI US teaching faculty in 2013.
Ben originally graduated from the joint program at the University of California, San Francisco and San Francisco State University (UCSF/SFSU) with a Masters of Science in Physical Therapy in 2002, returning in 2008 to earn his Doctor of Physical Therapy Science degree.