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A British musculoskeletal therapist holding a BSc and an MSc in sports therapy, he has been in practice since 2004 and has taught in more than thirty countries. The founder of Cor-Kinetic, he argues for a movement- and exercise-based approach with a strong educational component, centred on the patient.
2004
Start of his practice as a consultant in pain, injury and rehabilitation
2011
Founding of Cor-Kinetic, his training provider for clinicians
30+
Countries where he has taught and presented, including keynote lectures
8
British professional clubs supported since 2012
Elite sport and the health system: Ben Cormack has worked in both, and drew one conviction from it — pain cannot be understood without movement, nor movement without what the person makes of it. The rest of his work, teaching as well as writing, follows from that.
2000 · Initial training
University of Chichester.
Since 2004 · Clinical
Assessment and rehabilitation of sports and musculoskeletal injuries, specialist opinion on complex cases, work within interdisciplinary teams.
Since 2011 · Teaching
Designing educational programmes, online courses and mentoring for clinicians in sport and healthcare settings.
Since 2012 · Elite sport
Football and rugby in the United Kingdom: Sunderland, Aston Villa, Stoke City, Everton, Millwall, West Bromwich Albion, Gloucester Rugby, Leicester Tigers.
2016 · University
MSc at London Metropolitan University, and guest teaching on pain and rehabilitation at the University of East London.
Since 2018 · Research
Reviewer for Physio Network since 2018, then co-director with Adam Meakins of a subscription-based online education service for healthcare professionals.
His writing is about the way exercise is delivered rather than about exercise itself: what the therapist’s words do to the effects expected of it, and what became of the biopsychosocial model on its way from theory to practice.
Are patients picking up what we are putting down? Considering nocebo effects in exercise for musculoskeletal pain
Cormack B, Rossettini G. Frontiers in Psychology, 2023.
The biopsychosocial model is lost in translation: from misrepresentation to an enactive modernization
Cormack B, Stilwell P, Coninx S, Gibson J. Physiotherapy Theory and Practice, 2022.
Exercise & pain
Cormack B. Pain and Rehabilitation, the journal of the Physiotherapy Pain Association, 2018.
The corrective exercise trap
Tumminello N, Silvernail J, Cormack B. NSCA Personal Training Quarterly, 2017.
Congresses and conferences: IFOMPT in Belgium, the Catalan physiotherapy congress, the Italian physiotherapy congress, San Diego Pain Summit, Journées francophones de kinésithérapie, British Physiotherapy Pain Association.
Visiting lecturer at the University of East London, on pain and rehabilitation.
Continuing education: cognitive functional therapy with Peter O’Sullivan, tendon rehabilitation with Jill Cook and Peter Malliaras, Explain Pain, Know Pain, red flags with Andrew Cuff.
Low back pain rehabilitation as he teaches it around the world: movement and exercise as the tools, education as the driver, and the patient at the centre of the decision.
Discover the courseFunctional movement therapy is arguably one of the most practical, well-referenced, clinically relevant and worthwhile continuing education courses I have taken. Ben has a lively presentation style... the course is relevant.
Finally something concrete on EBP! No theoretical waffle, just validated tests and clear algorithms.
The structured assessment has completely changed the way I triage my patients. No more doubts about red flags.
Ben Cormack is a British musculoskeletal therapist with a BSc in sports therapy from the University of Chichester and an MSc from London Metropolitan University. A clinician since 2004 and the founder of Cor-Kinetic, he teaches in more than thirty countries and has worked with several British professional football and rugby clubs.
He teaches Rehab for painful backs, on the rehabilitation of low back pain through movement and exercise. The programme and the practical details are on the course page.
The language of delivery is stated on the course page. Ben Cormack is British and usually teaches in English.
About nocebo effects when exercise is prescribed for musculoskeletal pain, and about what becomes of the biopsychosocial model as it moves from theory to clinical practice — a paper co-written with Peter Stilwell, Sabrina Coninx and Jo Gibson.
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