Dave Renfrew

Presentation Topic: Persisting Pain: From Predictive Processing to Practical Rehab

Dave Renfrew is a physiotherapist, strength and conditioning coach, clinical educator and owner of an award winning physiotherapy clinic in Newcastle, NSW. Over more than 20 years he has built a wealth of experience in pain and injury rehab, and now specialises in finding solutions for complex and persisting pain presentations.

He leads a large team at Newcastle Performance Physiotherapy, where the focus is on delivering high level rehab and education to the wider community. Dave has also taken his experience and knowledge of complex pain presentations into workplaces, where he helps companies decrease the burden of workplace injuries, improve the culture around pain and injury, and enhance the health and wellbeing of their workforce.

He is a sought after speaker and educator and runs courses for other health professionals to improve their understanding of pain, the skill set required to be successful, and the weapon of choice in decreasing the chronic pain burden. He has been published in the BMJ and Health Research Policy and Systems, and has presented in Fiji, Samoa and the UK.

Dave presented at The Lower Limb Conference Brisbane 2026. See all of our past presenters.