Dr. Daniel Harvie
Australia
Virtual Reality in Chronic Pain
Dr. Daniel Harvie is a physiotherapist, pain scientist, and educator. He is currently a National Health and Medical Research Council-funded research fellow in the Allied Health & Human Performance unit at the University of South Australia. His research focuses on new approaches to chronic pain that leverage new technologies and modern understandings of sensory processing.
He is a co-author of ‘Pain and The Nature of Perception: A New Way to Look at Pain’ and an inventor of gadgets. In that vein, he holds two national innovations, ‘iAwards,’ for his part in creating virtual reality and sensory training approaches currently being used in pain research.
He has a Bachelor of Physiotherapy (Hons), a Master of Musculoskeletal and Sports Physiotherapy, and a chronic-pain focused Ph.D. Since 2007, his clinical work has been primarily with musculoskeletal and chronic pain populations in rural and urban locations and public, private, and university settings.
He is an enthusiastic educator. In addition to his role as a lecturer in musculoskeletal and chronic pain physiotherapy, Dr. Daniel Harvie is a member of the Australian Pain Society and Pain Revolution education committees. He is also on the ‘OneThing’ pain science podcast team.
