Clinical Lecturer
Email mark.overton@otago.ac.nz
Mark is a physiotherapist and has been working as a part of an interdisciplinary pain team in Christchurch and Dunedin for the last 10 years. He gained a Master of Physiotherapy from the University of Otago in 2017 and recently completed his PhD which explored pain sensitisation and the experiences of people with knee osteoarthritis.
Within the department, Mark is a Clinical Lecturer and Paper Co-ordinator for:
PAIN711 Introduction to Pain Management.
Research interests
- Chronic pain
- Pain mechanisms
- Knee osteoarthritis
- Quantitative sensory testing
- Ecological momentary assessment
- Interprofessional rehabilitation
- Occupational health