Dr. Mokgadi Mashola

Mokgadi Mashola is a South African physiotherapy researcher whose scholarship centres on pain in people living with spinal cord injury, particularly community-dwelling manual wheelchair users. Affiliated with academic and rehabilitation networks in Gauteng, her work bridges clinical practice and public health, with a strong focus on improving long-term outcomes and community reintegration after injury.

Her publications explore neuropathic and musculoskeletal pain, pain medication misuse, and the psychosocial burden of chronic pain. Using quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods designs, she has examined pain prevalence, lived experiences, and its effects on functioning, disability, and mental well-being. This body of work highlights the complexity of pain beyond physical symptoms.

Mashola has contributed to the development of an interprofessional pain self-management framework grounded in the biopsychosocial model, offering practical guidance for clinicians in primary care and rehabilitation. Additional studies address epidemiology of spinal cord injury and gait-related impairments after stroke, reflecting broader expertise in neurorehabilitation and evidence-informed physiotherapy practice.