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A/PROF ARNOLD
Pain Management
A/Prof Arnold studied Medicine at
Monash University and later entered
postgraduate training at the Australian
College of Rehabilitation Medicine
(later to be the Australian Faculty of
Rehabilitation Medicine in the Royal
Australian College of Physicians).
A/Prof Arnold obtained her fellowship in
Rehabilitation Medicine in 1990 winning
the Basmajiin Prize and the Award of
Merit. She began consultant work in the
Caulfield Pain Clinic where she was Clinical
Director as well as working in Neurological
Rehabilitation at Hampton Rehabilitation
Hospital, both in Melbourne, Australia.
Dr Arnold has participated in clinical
research into pain after amputation,
longitudinal studies into the outcome
of spinal cord stimulation in workers
compensation patients, pain after
trauma, psychological aspects of
chronic pain, and compensation
and legal issues in chronic pain.
Dr Arnold headed the Caufield Pain
Management and Research Centre,
a multidisciplinary centre, since 2002
and worked as a consultant to the
Alfred Health Acute Pain Service
since 2003, expanding her clinical
work into acute pain.
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With lessons to train your
brain to manage pain, this
App can be a good starting
point. It can help listeners to
recognise that some of the
pain is not in the tissues.
“The issues are not in the
tissues”, as is often said. Some
of the issues are in the wiring
itself, prioritising certain
pathways of pain.
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