Pain Matrix is proud that one of our Specialist Pain Medicine Physicians Dr Jacqui Nash has been invited by the Faculty of Pain Medicine  at the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists,  to convene the annual scientific spring meeting in September 2017. Titled “Transcending pain: Ride the next wave”...

Article by Dr Michael Vagg   This week is National Pain Week so it’s only fitting that I should climb onto the soapbox again in support of people with persistent pain, their employers, workmates, friends, and families. The economic burden of persistent pain in our country is enormous, and the...

Article br Dr Michael Vagg   Ketamine is a drug which was originally used in anaesthesia, but which is now more often used in managing pain. It acts upon a range of different neurotransmitter systems in the body and it’s not a drug you would expect an average primary care...

Article by Dr Michael Vagg   We have seen plenty of media reporting of the harm done by “overprescribing” of opioid drugs for chronic pain (I use the quotation marks because I challenge anyone to identify what the “right” level of opioid prescribing is) but perhaps this hype is misleading....

Article by Mandy Squires (Geelong Advertiser)   Featuring Dr Michael Vagg   As a Deakin University researcher, Dr Mel Thomson is well placed to sort science from snake oil. Twenty years of academia has given the mum of two the ability to find, read and understand complex scientific papers and...