About David Butler, _{Ed D, B Phty, GDAMT, M App Sc, PT}

David is a physiotherapist, an educationalist, a researcher and clinician. He currently serves as an adjunct associate professor at the University of South Australia and an honored member of the Australian Physiotherapy Association. He is best known as an educationalist and his current focus is on adult conceptual change, diagnostic and therapeutic metaphors and pain storytelling. Internationally known and respected as a lively speaker and writer, David is capable of transforming the most turgid of modern pain sciences into instantly relevant, clinically applicable information.

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David pioneered the establishment of the Neuro Orthopaedic Institute (Noigroup) in the early 1990s. Noigroup is a privately owned education provider and publishing house working predominantly from an office in Adelaide, Australia, and more recently—New York, US. The company prides itself in its reinvestment in education and clinically based research and Noigroup Publications has grown from the demand for resources to support this emerging research. Now entering its fourth decade, Noigroup manages highly qualified instructors, on all continents, presenting the latest in pain science to multidisciplinary audiences. Noigroup’s faculty members are active in many conferences, university programs and other postgraduate education sessions.

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