Explain Pain Online, Malta

If you have any questions about this course, please contact infouk@noigroup.com

Course Times

The complete NOI Explain Pain course delivered over 3 online sessions.

Session 1: Wednesday 12 November 2025, 08.30 - 14.00 CET

Session 2: Thursday 13 November 2025, 08.30 - 14.00 CET

Session 3: Friday 14 November 2025, 08.30 - 14.00 CET

Please note, all times are Malta CET, if you are joining from outside of Central Europe, please check your local time zone

Presented in English

Description

• Explain Pain Online – live and interactive
• The course will be live and delivered via Zoom
• Class sizes are kept small to maximise interaction and time for questions
• NOI’s usual high quality
• Comprehensive teaching materials will be provided online for you to download

In a world experiencing an epidemic of chronic pain and increasing evidence of the failure of synthetic drugs, simple but extremely powerful educational tools can effectively target the natural pain treatment systems within us all.

Knowledge is power. In the new series of Explain Pain courses delivered by NOI instructors around the world, contemporary pain sciences are made accessible and understandable for all.

We know more about pain in the last twenty years than in the thousand years before and it’s all providing answers to “why do I hurt the way I do” and “what can I do about it”. The knowledge is applicable to young and old, from back pain to hemiplegia and general aching to the complexities of phantom pain and complex regional pain syndrome.

Explain Pain works to reduce catastrophisation and negative pain beliefs and when combined with active treatment, reduces pain and enhances return to work and play. Explain Pain has no side effects, is available around the clock, and you can share the knowledge and strategies with others.

Don’t miss this opportunity. NOI Explain Pain courses are fun, intellectually stimulating, based on evidence, always challenging, and integrate the Explain Pain ecosystem of Explain Pain, The Explain Pain Handbook: Protectometer, and Explain Pain Supercharged. You will come away with the most impressive therapeutic tool set ever!

Some Practicalities

• The course will be presented live, by zoom
• The teacher and the participants are all present on screen.
• You can choose to have your video on or off for the lectures. It is better to have it on for group work but not essential.
• You will be guided when you need to mute your sound or make it live for discussion and group work.
• The course is a combination of lectures and practical sessions spread over 14 hours.
• There are small group activates in breakout sessions throughout the course where participants are allocated to a group to complete tasks.
• There are also theory sessions and discussion and question time.
• The teacher shares their screen to show PowerPoint presentation.
• You will be sent an online workbook and links to the Zoom meetings a week before the course.

Instructor

Martina Egan-Moog -

MSc, Post Grad Manip Therapy, Dip PT, Yoga Teacher and Embodiment Coach

Martina is an APA-titled pain physiotherapist who works in an interdisciplinary pain management program in Melbourne and as a tutor for the Musculoskeletal/Sports Master’s at LaTrobe University. In 2020, she started a small private practice out of a yoga studio and a boxing gym where she primarily incorporates psychologically informed pain management strategies, embodied movement principles and trauma-informed approaches into her therapy.

She describes herself as a “Pott-Kind” (a native of the area around the river Ruhr in Germany), where she completed her physiotherapy diploma in 1990 at the University clinic in Essen. This was followed by several years working in private practices in the south of Germany, focusing on musculoskeletal and sports injuries. Her interest in neurodynamic principles grew, and she completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Manipulative Therapy in 1996 and a Master of Science in 1999, both at Curtin University, WA. Her thesis focussed on late whiplash patients for quantitative sensory and psychological profiling. She then worked within a cognitive-behavioural pain management program in Sydney until 2003. During this time, she was also introduced to yoga, which has accompanied her ever since, leading to her completing a Yoga Teacher certificate in 2019 and an Embodiment Coaching Certificate in 2023.

Martina has been teaching and publishing in the area of pain for over 20 years in Europe and Australia. In 2000, with the late Max Zusman, she developed an interdisciplinary course, “The Problem Pain Patient – understanding pain physiology and pain management” which was regularly running in Europe until 2015. She joined the Noigroup instructor faculty in 2003 after meeting David Butler during a self-guided cycling tour that aimed to raise funds for the Arthritis Foundation in Australia by offering communal pain education along the route between Perth and Sydney. In 2004, she translated the book “Explain Pain” into German and lectured the first Explain Pain course in Germany in 2006. Since then, she remains responsible for any updates to the course and book, including the translation and integration of the Protectometer, as well as translating the Graded Motor Imagery course, always in conjunction with her German-speaking faculty members.

She is a member of the German Pain Society and has been jointly responsible for developing, teaching, and assessing the 80-hour curriculum for ‘specialised pain physiotherapy/occupational therapy’ since 2014.

She is a mother of three teenage children and two dachshunds and regularly swims with the Port Melbourne Icebergs in the Bay. Martina’s main interest is to bridge research findings from pain sciences and behavioural medicine to clinical practice, and she continues to do this by teaching in German and English.

Pre-requisites

A strength of the Explain Pain course is that participants come from many professions, so come with an open mind. Pre-reading the Explain Pain Second Edition book would also be beneficial.

Other related reading: Moseley GL & Butler DS (2015) Fifteen years of Explaining Pain: the past, the present and future.J Pain 16, 803-13.

This course is open to:

Health professionals working with patients or clients in acute and chronic pain and stress states.

Objectives

• By the end of this course participants will have:
• reconceptualised pain and stress based on neuroimmunology, modern pain sciences and bioplasticity of homeostatic systems
• constructed a conceptual change framework to deliver individual and group educational therapy
• gained an understanding of the growing evidence for Explain Pain and recognise opportunities to integrate Explain Pain with other biopsychosocial evidence based strategies.
• gathered a collection of therapeutic narratives using metaphor, literal story and linked multimedia, and the skills to construct patient centred education interventions in real time
• developed the skills to use the Protectometer to identify immediately applicable and educationally informed multimodal treatment strategies
• built the confidence to plan and deliver treatment for all patients with persistent pain and stress, and educate other stakeholders

Terms and conditions | Refund Policy

Attendees can receive a full refund up to 30 days before the event start date, less the Eventbrite booking fee. Within 30 days, no refund.

In the event of NOI having to cancel the course due to unforeseen circumstances notification will be sent as soon as possible via your contact details provided and registrants will receive a full refund of the course fee.

Course places are secured once payment has been successfully processed.