Neil’s treatment focus is the helping people living with persisting pain. Book in with Neil if you want to learn how pain science and physiotherapy can guide a new approach to living with more ease. Or maybe you want to learn how to bring yoga practices into your current pain care plan. It’s recommended that you see Neil one on one if you are planning to join his Pain Care Aware classes.

Neil Pearson, PT, MSc(RHBS), BA-BPHE, C-IAYT, ERYT500 Neil is a physiotherapist and a yoga therapist who has focused most of his 40+years as a physio helping people with chronic pain. His sessions typically combine guidance in pain self-care techniques, therapeutic exercise, pain science education and hands-on physiotherapy. If you have chronic pain, have been struggling with keeping your body as healthy as possible and you know that some form of mindful movement is needed for lasting benefits, then book in with Neil. And if you are struggling with how much pain is okay while you exercise, Neil can provide the guidance and coaching you need. Neil joins Cumberland Physio and Yoga, while continuing to work in an interdisciplinary rehab program he co-developed for Canadian military veterans across the country who are living with complex chronic pain and mental health concerns caused by their dedicated service to our country. Effective pain care requires understanding pain, being shown the right techniques and the right approach to pain care for your unique situation, and being guided with consistency, discipline and compassionate challenges. Even if your plan with Neil doesn’t include yoga therapy, these same principles will guide your success. Contact Neil at neil@paincareu.com or call 250-486-5056.

Outside of his clinical role Neil is also a researcher within a team studying innovations in treatment for people with knee osteoarthritis including how yoga can benefit people with knee osteoarthritis. In addition, he was a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia from 1998 - 2026, and is currently faculty for an international yoga therapy training program. Neil is the founding chair of the Canadian Physiotherapy Association’s Pain Science Division. He is a recipient of awards honouring his work in pain care and physiotherapy from the Canadian and the BC Physio associations, and from Queen’s University. In addition, he was the first physiotherapist to receive the Excellence in Interprofessional Pain Education Award from the Canadian Pain Society. Neil has written numerous peer-reviewed papers on yoga, yoga therapy and pain, co-authored the textbook, Yoga and Science in Pain Care in 2019, and authored the patient education ebook, Understand Pain Live Well Again in 2008.

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