Darren Beales
Fellowship of the Australian College of Physiotherapists
PhD, M Manip Ther, BSc (Physio)
All pain and complex musculoskeletal presentations
Second Opinions
Education
As a specialist musculoskeletal physiotherapist, Darren spends a lot of time with people with persistent pain. He also interacts extensively with their management team to try and facilitate a consistent understand and approach to management. As a Senior Research Fellow at Curtin University, Darren’s interest is clinical pain. His research in this area is broad, covering mechanistic understanding of clinical pain through to efforts to enhance the management of persistent pain and implementation of knowledge into practice.
Darren’s research output can be accessed via the Curtin University website: https://research.curtin.edu.au/supervisor/dr-darren-beales/
Some notable publications include:
Beales, D., T. Mitchell, N. Moloney, M. Rabey, W. Ng, and T. Rebbeck. 2021. “Masterclass: A pragmatic approach to pain sensitivity in people with musculoskeletal disorders and implications for clinical management for musculoskeletal clinicians.” Musculoskeletal Science and Practice 51
Beales, D., D. Carolan, J. Chuah-Choong, S. Hammond, E. O’Brien, E. Boyle, S. Ranelli, D. Holthouse, T. Mitchell, and H. Slater. 2021. “Exploring peoples’ lived experience of complex regional pain syndrome in Australia: A qualitative study.” Scandinavian Journal of Pain 21 (2): 393-405
Beales, D., H. Slater, T. Palsson, and P. O’Sullivan. 2020. “Understanding and managing pelvic girdle pain from a person-centred biopsychosocial perspective.” Musculoskeletal Science and Practice 48
We offer a review / mentoring service where physiotherapists can refer one of their patients for a second opinion and sit in on the consult with discussion of the case afterwards. This can be done in person or via telehealth.
We offer some additional mentoring options to physiotherapists involved in the specialisation training program through the Australian College of Physiotherapists.
We are currently developing some clinical reasoning modules and education opportunities that will be available in the near future.