Dr Ramakrishnan Mani
- Job title
- Senior Lecturer
- Telephone
- +64 3 479 3485
- ramakrishnan.mani@otago.ac.nz
- Department
- School of Physiotherapy
- School
- School of Physiotherapy
- Division
- Division of Health Sciences
- Campus
- Dunedin
Social Media
Expertise
Education
- Pain education for physiotherapists
- Pain knowledge translation/exchange into physiotherapy clinical practice
- Pain education for health professional students
- Pain education in developing countries
- Pain curriculum
- Online pain information for general public
Health and Medicine
- Neural correlates of pain
- Sensory neuroplasticity - chronic pain
- Diffuse noxious inhibitory controls - conditioned pain modulation
- Temporal summation
- Cognitive and emotional neural correaltes of pain experience
- Body schema disturbances in chronic pain
- EEG
- Neuromodulation for Pain
- Neurofeedback for pain
- Central sensitisation
- Musculoskeletal pain
- Biopsychosocial model of pain
- Life-course approach to predict musculoskeletal pain and disability
- Tactile acuity
- Pain education and curriculum
- Pain mechanisms
- Chronic pain
- Cultural and ethnic differences in pain experience
- Quantitative sensory testing
- Musculoskeletal Pain
- Clinical assessment of central sensitisation
- Arthritis
- Low back pain
- Pain education
- Chronic pain
Physical Activity and Sport
- Physical activity and sedentary behaviour and Pain