The Role of Passive Therapies in Pain Rehab Treatment
There’s a lot of conflicting information out there about the role of passive therapies in effectively treating chronic pain conditions, so this month we thought we’d take a closer look at what it all means to you and your patients. When it comes to effective...
Encouraging Pain Patients to re-engage in Key Functional Roles over the Holiday Season
No matter where they might be in their rehab/recovery journey, chronic pain patients can find Christmas to be a challenging time. In particular, it’s a time where re-engaging with everyday tasks can take on a whole lot more meaning. Christmas is often a time when we...
Occupational Rehab and the Role of the ORP
Got your head around where ORPs fit in to the Return to Work landscape? Yes? Nice work! Not so much? No worries, this month we thought we’d fill you in. In the rehab training and outreach that we do with other allied health providers around the country, we’re...
The Modern Physio’s guide to Good Chronic Pain Management
If you’re a physiotherapist and you treat chronic pain patients then chances are you’ve been faced with a range of presenting symptoms outside of the straight-up physical. If you’ve ever wondered how best to handle curve-ball issues like the emotional stress and...
How to Prepare your Clients for Surgery
For anyone facing an impending surgical procedure, it’s pretty normal to come face-to-face with a range of fears and emotions in the lead-up to the big day. In the context of chronic pain, the prospect of surgery to assist with pain management can sometimes hold the...
Pain Catastrophizing and How to Manage it
This month we wanted to talk about the implications of catastrophic thinking in chronic pain rehab, look at the psychology of pain catastrophizing and explore some of the ways in which you can help your patients to manage it. Catastrophizing has been classified as "a...
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