Ep. 6 Pain in Practice—Sports | Dr Peter Roberts FACP

Pain is a part of sport, but it shouldn’t define an athlete’s career. Dr Peter Roberts dives into performance-focused yet person-centred approaches to pain in sporting populations. From elite athletes to weekend warriors, this episode rethinks how we manage pain and keep people moving. Dr Peter Roberts FACP is a Specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist, an APA Titled Sports and Exercise Physiotherapist and an APA Titled Pain Physiotherapist with over 50 years of experience. After graduating in 1974, he gained initial experience at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, South Australia and then in Geoffrey Maitland’s practice—the founder of the Maitland approach. He has had extensive experience as a sport physiotherapist, including working with the Adelaide Ravens national netball team, the SA netball team, Tea Tree Gully district cricket team, Tango netball state league, South Australian Road Runners and the Australian track and field team in the 2000 Sydney Olympics. ----- 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.