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Dr
Aidan Cashin
Current Appointments
NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow
Deputy Director, Centre for Pain IMPACT, NeuRA
Conjoint Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine & Health, UNSW Sydney
Accredited Exercise Physiologist, ESSA
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Dr Aidan Cashin (PhD, BExPhys) is a NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow, Deputy Director of the Centre for Pain IMPACT at Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA) and a Conjoint Senior Lecturer in the School of Health Sciences at the University of New South Wales. Prior to commencing research, Aidan pursued a successful clinical career as an Accredited Exercise Physiologist, practicing primarily in the field of chronic musculoskeletal pain.
Aidan’s current research is focused on developing, testing, and optimising healthcare interventions to improve chronic pain management. This includes investigating the mechanisms and applicability of healthcare interventions to support translation into practice and policy. Most of Aidan’s work is applied to the management of chronic musculoskeletal pain including low back pain. Aidan also conducts methodological work that aims to improve research transparency and openness. Aidan has received over $11.6 million in competitive national and international research funding and received several awards for his research including the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) Ronald Dubner Research Award for the best doctoral thesis in the field of pain (2022), the Australian Pain Society (APS) Rising Star Award (2023) and the Research Australia Discovery Award (Highly Commended) (2023). Follow Aidan’s work on Google Scholar and ORCID.
Publications
2025, 31 Dec
It is not all about strength: rethinking mechanistic assumptions in exercise-based rehabilitation for musculoskeletal pain relief
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2025-110372
2025, 16 Dec
Efficacy and Safety of Bisphosphonates for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.7326/ANNALS-25-03693
2025 Dec
Identifying Social factors that Stratify Health Opportunities and Outcomes (ISSHOOs) in pain research: consensus recommendations for the collection and reporting of equity-relevant data
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2025.103586
2025 Dec
Standardising socio-demographic data collection in pain research: Introducing consensus recommendations for a minimum dataset
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpain.2025.105645
2025 Dec
To do no harm, we must first “know harms”: the challenge of measuring and reporting adverse events in interventions for pain
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1097/j.pain.0000000000003796
2025 Nov
Optimising physical rehabilitation for people with musculoskeletal pain
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1097/j.pain.0000000000003719
2025, 15 Oct
Improving reporting of observational studies of interventions: The TARGET guideline
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004787
2025 Oct
Test-retest reliability and measurement error of the numerical rating scale and visual analogue scale in people with low back pain
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpain.2025.105528
2025, 28 Aug
Mechanism evaluation of a digitally enabled rehabilitation intervention for people in aged care and neurological rehabilitation: mediation analysis of the AMOUNT trial
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2025.2454298
2025 Jun
Preventing the transition from acute to chronic low back pain using home-based neuromodulation: protocol for a randomised, controlled study
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-096126
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