RECOVER Injury Research Centre

Outcomes from consumer and community consultation

Learn more about RECOVER's consumer and community involvement activities. 

  1. Consumer involvement case studies
  2. 2020 Consumer & Community Forum
  3. 2019 Consumer & Community Forum
  4. Consumer chatbot activity
  5. Modification of the Pain ROADMAP app for young people
  6. Engaging Consumers and Community Members across the Research Spectrum: A Stepped Approach to Implementation by the RECOVER Injury Research Centre
  7. Virtual reality enabled intervention for pain management
  1. ‘6-minute Walk Test in chronic pain’ study: consumer review of recruitment materials
  2. Grow Stronger mobile app with a gamification feature
  3. Contributing consumer experiences and ideas for study to test how to choose the right treatment for the right person
  4. PRioRTI: A multi-centre randomised placebo-controlled trial of pregabalin to prevent chronic pain after whiplash injury.
  5. Co-design, development and feasibility of a consumer-driven immersive virtual reality tool for upper limb rehabilitation in the community
  6. Consumer Roundtable 2022: Bringing researchers to the consumer table to explore telehealth

10. Contributing consumer experiences and ideas for study to test how to choose the right treatment for the right person

Project name

ADAPtive Trial and Data Asset (BACK-ADAPTDA) - Innovation in trial design and data analytics to deliver personalised management for back pain

What are the aims of the project?

Pain affects almost everyone, but we don’t know which treatments are best for which individuals. Although personalised care should improve outcomes, current research methods have provided very limited evidence to support this approach.

This project idea brings together a diverse group of world leaders in back pain, scientific discovery, and game-changing new clinical trial and data analytic methods to take a fresh approach to solve the problem of back pain with application into the future.

The consultation activity

In March 2022, we invited consumers to contribute their experience and ideas about a new project in development at The University of Queensland. Consumers participated in a one-off consultation activity in the research planning phase.

During the session, the project leads explained how they plan to use an “adaptive design”, which can make a clinical trial more flexible to better use resources and produce better outcomes for participants.  

Consumers had the opportunity to discuss the project and provide specific input to the researchers about the study design and methods from the consumer perspective. Attendees were very interested in the novel methodology and requested access to a journal article which explains it in more detail. 

Project leads

Professor Paul Hodges (School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, UQ) is a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Senior Principal Research Fellow, Professor and Director of the NHMRC Centre for Clinical Research Excellence in Spinal Pain, Injury and Health at The University of Queensland (UQ). He is the lead chief investigator on an NHMRC Program Grant that includes colleagues from the Universities of Melbourne and Sydney.

Professor Michele Sterling (RECOVER, UQ) is the program leader of the Improving health outcomes after musculoskeletal injury program at RECOVER Injury Research Centre. She is the director of the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Recovery Following Road Traffic Injuries.