We're excited about learning and experiencing the most in life. Sharing our knowledge and field experience in aim at helping people reduce and manage their pain. 

A few years ago, Dave Moen and Prof. Lorimer Moseley met weekly to plan Dave's PhD in pain. The goal was to find better ways to engage patients and clinicians in modern pain science. Maybe it was the caffeine, but soon enough the sights shifted and conversation flowed around building a simple and freely available education resouurce about pain. Starting with the incredible knowledge of the human pain system, we wanted to communicate hope and give people evidence-based direction to guide their recovery from pain.

Tame the Beast was eventually created in collaboration between: a pain researcher Prof. Lorimer Moseley, a pain physiotherapist Dave Moen and a professional communicator Sam Chisholm.

It is a freely available education tool that aims to inspire research-based action in the treatment of chronic pain. At the moment, Tame the Beast is an animation, a question-and-answer and a podcast series. If you have questions feel free to contact Dave Moen at hello@untanglr.com.

Lorimer Moseley

Professor Lorimer Moseley is a clinical scientist investigating pain in humans. After posts at The University of Oxford, UK, and the University of Sydney, Lorimer was appointed Professor of Clinical Neuroscience and Chair in Physiotherapy at the University of South Australia. He is also Senior Principal Research Fellow at NeuRA and an NHMRC Principal Research Fellow.

He has published over 310 papers, six books and numerous book chapters. He has given over 150 keynote or invited presentations at interdisciplinary meetings in 30 countries. He has provided professional education in pain sciences to over 25,000 medical and health practitioners and public lectures to as many again. His research group’s videos and articles have been viewed over 4.5 million times.

Lorimer was awarded the inaugural outstanding mid-career clinical scientist prize by the International Association for the Study of Pain, was runner-up for the 2012 Australian Science Minister’s Prize for Life Sciences, and won the 2013 Marshall & Warren Award for the Best Innovative and Potentially Transformative Project in Australia. He was made an Honoured Member of the Australian Physiotherapy Association, their highest honour, in 2014 and is the only physiotherapist to be made Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Pain Medicine, Australia New Zealand College of Anaesthetists. His contribution to pain science and rehabilitation has been recognised with awards from 12 countries. Treatments he devised are now recommended in best practice guidelines internationally.

Dave Moen

Dave Moen is the founder of Untanglr and Permission to Move. His team develop online treatment tools for patients and offer chronic pain treatment via video consultation to people all over the world. Permission to Move have published a book outlining their clinical practice model, and offer a Clinician Program for those interested in delivering best-practice pain treatment.

The Permission to Move Clinician Program includes access to multi-session treatment plans, professional development resources and clinical note templates and comes ready to install in practice.

In 2015, Dave started Form Physiotherapy in Adelaide. This project was designed to test the delivery of best-practice treatment pathways in a real-world setting so that findings could be relayed back to research. His clinic is still operating and offers pain treatment and general physiotherapy to clients in Adelaide, South Australia.