Less Pain Better Performance Mini-course
Ebonie Rio
Meet your instructor
Ebonie is a Sports Physiotherapist at the Victorian Institute of Sport and The Australian Ballet and Senior Research Fellow at La Trobe University. Her clinical career has included Australian Institute of Sport, The Australian Open, The Australian Ballet, Australian Ballet School, Melbourne Heart football club, Commonwealth Games 2006, 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, 2010 Singapore Youth Olympics, 2012 London Paralympics, 18 months travelling with Disney’s The Lion King stage show (Melbourne and Shanghai tour) and she was awarded the Post-Graduate Scholarship at the AIS (2007).
She has completed her Phd in tendon pain, Masters Sports Phys, Ba. Phys (hons) and Ba. App Sci. Her research has been awarded Victorian Fresh Scientist of the year 2015, ASICS SMA Best New Investigator 2004, 2013 & 2014 in Clinical Sports Medicine, best clinical science Pain Adelaide 2013, BJSM young investigator Best Clinical Paper 2014 and the Professor Mollie Holman medal for the best thesis of the faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences Monash University 2015 and the ECR best paper 2015.
This is what you will learn
- Why less pain = better performance
- Fundamental neuroscience of protection vs performance
- Integrating modern science to optimise preseason
- Integrating pain education into rehab
- When and how to use psychologists for less pain better performance
- Organisational interventions modern neuroscience to promote performance
- Biomarkers for pain and performance
