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The essence of Noigroup
Our vision is to instil healthy notions of self through health science knowledge worldwide. There are currently five critical conceptual change issues that underpin this:

1. Injury or disease does not mean that you feel pain or cannot participate in meaningful activities
2. All bodily systems change and adapt as we move
3. Pain, stress and performance are outputs of the person in a unique context
4. Knowledge and movement are the greatest pain, stress, and disability liberators
5. Biological plasticity gives new hope

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. It is essentially ‘scientific holism’. Derived mostly from British science, the approach is best typified by Wall and Melzack’s (2005) Textbook of Pain.

Noigroup also espouses strong clinical reasoning strategies, again arising from British critical thinking and later, Australian manual therapy.

Assessment and management of the physical aspects of the nervous system and brain sciences with a focus on neuroplasticity – particularly how the brain represents our body – is an important focus.

Overall, the nervous system is a remarkable, mobile, complex, plastic and changeable organ, and this impacts on both acute and chronic injuries and disease. The Noigroup education system covers acute and chronic musculoskeletal, central and peripheral, and neuropathic pain states.

• Explain pain - online, Face-to-Face,  Night School & Summer School
• Graded Motor Imagery
• Mobilisation of the Neuroimmune System