How do we get key recovery messages to people with pain in rural and remote areas?
How do we get key recovery messages to people with pain in rural and remote areas? This was a question for discussion and debate amongst allied health professionals gathered at the SARRAH Conference in Darwin this month.Informed by years of practice in the...
ePPOC – Collaborative Data Sharing for Pain Management
In the process reviewing your Pain Service in time for the new-year? On the look-out for new best practice ideas? Consider aligning your data collection with ePPOC (electronic Persistent Pain Outcomes Collaboration). It’s been a big year for health system...
The Move Toward Interprofessional Practice
We were delighted to be a part of the Victoria University Interprofessional Health Education & Practice (IHEP) International Conference earlier this month. One of the biggest discoveries we made was realising that the theory of ‘interprofessional practice’ aligns...
National Primary Health Care Review – Get Involved!
For most of us working in chronic pain the barriers to quality, community-based care are all too familiar. The shortage of health professionals with chronic pain training, the wait times at specialist pain services, the distances faced by those in regional and rural...
Kids & Chronic Pain
You don’t have to look too far to see that chronic pain management in Australia is largely focused on treating adults and the elderly. Look a little closer and you’ll see that there’s a huge gap when it comes to children and adolescents, which begs the question: is...
Waiting in Pain – Finding Innovative ways to Reduce Patient Wait Times
We’ve all heard the stats about excessive wait times for outpatient access to chronic pain care, and yes, it’s mostly all doom and gloom. But by spending a little time developing tweaks to service delivery models, we reckon there are plenty of ways that allied health...
Our Interests
At Innovative Rehab, we value multidisciplinary input and an inter-professional approach. Our interests include general rehab, pain management, obesity, mental health, falls prevention, oncology and cardiac rehab. We specialise in the management of complex and/or chronic health conditions and work across a range of diverse health settings.
Our Team
Our training and consultancy services are delivered by a team of passionate, qualified and experienced clinicians; with a particular focus on practical application and clinical utility.
Our Leaders

Rachel Kovacevic
Clinical Psychologist

Stephen McCrea
Physiotherapist