Pace it physiotherapy provides tailored and targeted education, coaching and rehabilitation for persistent pain conditions.

Our approach

Persistent pain is a complex condition with a number of factors which can influence each individual presentation. As no one person with persistent pain is the same, we use the PACE approach of Pain Assessment, Coaching and Education. This approach ensures that each factor that contributes to each person’s pain condition is identified, thus allowing for an individualised treatment plan which considers the goals of the person. The treatment plan will usually involve a coaching style approach consisting of education, exercise and ongoing guidance and support.

About Matt Forster

Matt’s aim is to provide high-quality education and rehabilitation for people with persistent pain conditions. He strives to improve his patient’s ability to understand the causes of their persistent pain and to empower people to improve their own management of their condition.

Matt completed his Physiotherapy degree at the University of Queensland in 1996 and developed an interest in chronic and complex pain conditions early in his career whilst working in both the public and private sectors. He completed a Master of Science in Medicine (Pain Management) at the University of Sydney in 2007. Matt continues to be involved in the Pain Management degree at the University of Sydney in a teaching role.

To further his expertise in the physiotherapy management of persistent pain conditions, Matt undertook a two year training program with the Australian College of Physiotherapy. He successfully completed the final exams in November 2022 to be awarded the title of Specialist Pain Physiotherapist (as awarded by the Australian College of Physiotherapists in 2022.) Matt is the sixth physiotherapist in Australia to complete the Specialist Pain Physiotherapist training program.

Matt is also a member of the charity organisation “Pain Revolution” which raises funds to educate rural and regional health practitioners to become Local Pain Educators. He is a mentor for the Local Pain Educators. He is one of the cyclists riding 700km or so kilometres for a week each year as part of the Pain Revolution Rural Outreach Program and charity bike ride.

Matt is a member of both the Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA) and the Australian Pain Society (APS). He is a past chair of the Queensland Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy Group.