Ep. 2 Pain in Practice—Paediatrics | Andrew Gorrie

How do you make sense of chronic pain when the patient is still growing? Andrew Gorrie explores the unique clinical, emotional and family dynamics of paediatric pain management. This episode shines a light on treating pain early and treating the whole child. Andrew Gorrie is a pain physiotherapist in the interdisciplinary chronic and complex pain team in Sydney Children’s Hospital. In 2023 he completed a Master of Health Management and Leadership at the University of New South Wales. Andrew’s experience working in palliative care, congenital conditions and orthopaedics has influenced his approach to pain management. He has also been involved in numerous research projects focused on attrition from paediatric pain services, caregiver burden in paediatric chronic pain and somatosensory testing in paediatric chronic pain. ----- Sophie Shephard MACP is a Wagga Wagga-based APA Titled Pain Physiotherapist, the founder of Vive Pain and Fatigue and a PhD candidate at Charles Sturt University. She has a special interest in pain, fatigue and invisible illness stemming from her own lived experience of myalgic encephalomyelitis. Matt Fa APAM is a Sydney-based physiotherapist with over a decade of experience across diverse clinical settings, currently he is working as senior physiotherapist in a tertiary pain centre within the Northern Sydney Local Health District. He has a passion for improving quality of life for people living with chronic pain and helping physiotherapists feel confident and supported in their practice.