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Dr

Hayley Leake


Current Appointments

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Honorary Research Fellow at NeuRA Research Fellow at University of South Australia
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Dr Hayley Leake B.Physio(Hons), PhD is an honorary Research Fellow at Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA) in the Centre for Pain IMPACT. She is also a Research Fellow at the University of South Australia (UniSA). Her PhD focused on optimising pain science education for people with chronic pain. Hayley was awarded the 2023 Ruth Grant Prize for dedication to physiotherapy research by UniSA. Prior to commencing research, Hayley pursued a successful clinical career as a physiotherapist, practicing in primary and tertiary care.

Hayleys current research investigates the role of physiotherapy and pain science education for adolescents with chronic pain. Follow Hayleys work on Google Scholar and ORCID.


Publications

2024 Sep

“I wish I knew then what I know now” — pain science education concepts important for female persistent pelvic pain: a reflexive thematic analysis

View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1097/j.pain.0000000000003205

2024

Barriers and enablers to using intervention reporting guidelines in sports and exercise medicine trials: a mixed-methods study

2024

Co-design and evaluation of pain science messages on social media with adolescents with a history of chronic pain

2024

Recommendations for patient education in the management of persistent pelvic pain: a systematic review of clinical practice guidelines

2024

Teaching patients about pain: the emergence of pain science education, its learning frameworks and delivery strategies

2024

Why might fears and worries persist after a pain education-grounded multimodal intervention for chronic back pain? A qualitative study

2023, 09 Sep

The Sensation and Pain Rating Scale: easy to use, clear to interpret, and responsive to clinical change

View full preprint on https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.09.08.23295128

2023 May

“My Back is Fit for Movement”: A Qualitative Study Alongside a Randomized Controlled Trial for Chronic Low Back Pain

View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpain.2022.12.009

2023 Mar

How does pain work? A qualitative analysis of how young adults with chronic pain conceptualize the biology of pain

View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1002/ejp.2069

2023

A single-item mood question adequately discriminates moderately severe to severe depression in individuals with persistent pain: preliminary validation