Sports and Exercise Medicine Specialist

  • Bachelor of Science with Honours (BSc (HONS))

  • Bachelor of Medicine (B.Med)

  • Fellow of the Australian College of Sports and Exercise Medicine (FACSEM)

Dan is a Sports and Exercise Medicine Specialist. His new clinic “Back, Neck and Joint”, is in Melbourne, Australia. He is the former managing director at Metro Pain Group, Monash Clinical Research, and the board chairman of Monash House Private Hospital. Dan works full-time with people suffering from back, neck and joint pain (thus the clinic name). Prior to this he has worked extensively in Sports Medicine and for multiple professional and national sporting teams. He was the head doctor at Australian Football League teams Melbourne and North Melbourne.

He got interested in chronic pain because of his personal experience with his mum, who has had 4 spinal operations and a lifetime of pain. He also became interested as his waiting lists grew. It meant that anyone that was able to wait, was suffering chronic pain. Once that happened, he needed some new solutions to care for his patients.

His research career has been broad, covering exercise-induced asthma, examination techniques, biologics, osteoarthritis, chronic pain, and neuromodulation. He lectures nationally and internationally regularly, has three kids, and has the world's most tolerant wife.

Dr. Dan Bates

“Pain is a thief. take back what’s yours.”

— DR. DAN BATES

Dan’s approach

 

“If you have had pain for a long time, undoubtedly someone has said “You just need to do some exercise and lose some weight”. But most people can’t exercise because of their pain and can’t lose weight because they can’t do any exercise. Dan combines his interventional skill base with his sports and exercise medicine to identify and treat the pain wherever possible, get people exercising and then encourage some weight loss.”

— Dr. Dan Bates

Dr. Dan Bates Publication

Publications

Dan is highly active in research and has published systematic reviews on how to manage neuropathic pain, through to randomised control trials on osteoarthritis management. He has been involved in a number of first in man studies and it the owner of the Monash Clinical Research, a highly actively pain research company. He is proud of this research activity as it allows him to bring the latest pain management therapies and techniques to his patients.


LocationS

METRO PAIN GROUP
(CONSULTING)

Ground Floor
Monash House Private Hospital
271 Clayton Rd, Clayton VIC 3168

+61 3 9595 6111
metropain.com.au

MONASH HOUSE PRIVATE HOSPITAL
(SURGICAL PROCEDURES)

271 Clayton Rd
Clayton VIC 3168

+61 3 8394 0700
monashhouseprivatehospital.com.au

BACK, NECK AND JOINT
(CONSULTING)

Suite 1, 310 Whitehorse Road
Balwyn, VIC 3103

Opposite Anytime Fitness
+61 3 9854 4000
backneckandjoint.com.au