THE FOUNDERS
Designed by pain and spine medicine specialists, physiotherapy, psychology, and nutritionists.
The Spinal Restoration Program was built by pain clinicans who treat chronic spinal pain every day.
Dr. Aidan McParland
Co-Founder · Interventional Pain Medicine Specialist
Dr. McParland is an interventional pain medicine specialist with over fifteen years of clinical practice and research in chronic pain and spinal pain management.
The Spinal Restoration Program exists because of a pattern he saw in clinic week after week: patients whose pain could improve with the right rehabilitation dose — structured, progressive, and long enough to work — but who were never given one.
Dr. Willem Volschenk
Co-Founder · Pain Medicine & Anaesthesia Specialist
Dr. Volschenk holds dual Australian fellowships in Pain Medicine, Anaesthesia, and Critical Care.
Philosophy
Four commitments.
It's a serious clinical tool, packaged as a self-directed program.
Everything in this program is something I would do in clinic. The format is asynchronous so that cost and geography stop being barriers — not so that quality is.
It assumes you're an adult.
No infantilising language. No 'just believe in yourself.' If something will hurt at first, I tell you. If something might not work for you, I tell you that too.
It works with your medical team.
This is not anti-doctor or anti-physio. It's the structured 16-week dose your other care typically does not have time to deliver. Bring it to your clinician — there's a clinical summary built for exactly that conversation.
It's evidence-based, not evidence-flavoured.
Every claim on the Science page is referenced. Where the evidence is ambiguous, I say so. Where it's strong, I say that too.
Why exercise-only.
For non-radicular, chronic mechanical back pain, exercise is the most evidence-supported intervention we have. It is also the only one that addresses the actual upstream problem — multifidus inhibition and atrophy. Manual therapy, injections, and surgery have their place; none of them, by themselves, restore the muscle.
Why these prices.
The cost reflects 16 weeks of structured care, not a download. It is priced to be reachable from out-of-pocket — a fraction of the cost of a stimulator, a fraction of the cost of a course of out-of-network physiotherapy. The guarantee is real.