Do you experience ongoing or chronic pain?
Are you frustrated by the lack of solutions and not knowing what works and what doesn’t?
Do you feel like you have tried everything including physical therapies, complementary and medical treatment with little result? Does it seem like you are on a roundabout with no way off?
Do you suffer from sleep disturbance, anxiety, depression or fatigue?
Are you feeling isolated from friends and family because of your pain?
Do you feel fed up and hopeless with low quality of life?
Here are some experiences of chronic pain that my clients have told me…
For years they have had ongoing irritable bowel syndrome for years and they have stopped going out because they just don’t know what to eat.
The pain of neuropathy has restricted their walking so they no longer wear closed toe shoes or go shopping due to the pain.
Each month is associated with incredible endometrial pain causing them to be bedridden for 2-3 days at a time.
Lower back pain stops them playing with their children and makes them feel like an onlooker in their own life.
Oro-facial pain is so severe they can’t eat solid food any more, even with pain medication.
Monthly migraines that leave them bed-ridden and exhausted.
They can handle the daily pain but are exhausted from lack of sleep and feel depressed by their situation.
If you are experiencing pain you are not alone, chronic pain is often not managed effectively.
Pain related conditions.
If you want to wake each morning feeling more alive, let go of the fear that movement is going to cause more damage and pain then finding someone you can trust to support is important; I will listen without judgment about your pain and work with you to provide solutions towards more movement, less pain and a quality of life you deserve.
Pain may be a symptom of your condition or the primary concern. I will work with you to determine the underlying factors contributing to both the primary condition and pain.
It is important your health care professionals work together to support you. I take the time to work with GP’s, specialists and allied health professionals as part of your health care team.
Most treatments for Pain and Complex Health Issues can end up just treating symptoms. I will work with you to find out what is driving your conditions and support you through the maze to feeling better.
Pain conditions I commonly work with:
Chronic or persistent pain
trauma or injury related pain
fibromyalgia
neuropathy
rheumatoid arthritis or joint pain
osteoarthritis, gout and arthralgias
juvenile arthritis
endometriosis, adenomyosis and dysmenorrhoea
migraines and headaches
irritable bowel syndrome, reflux and heartburn and digestive issues generally
autoimmune conditions and related pain
Complex Health Issues
Living with multiple health issues or diagnoses
Multiple functional conditions e.g. chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, IBS, migraines
Autoimmune conditions including Hashimoto's
Pain with comorbid depression or anxiety
A primary diagnosis with comorbid cardiovascular, endocrine or mental health concerns
Digestive issues with mental health or sleep issues.
Hyper-mobility syndromes, Ehler’s Danlos sydromes
Together we can make lasting changes so that you can get out and enjoy your life again.
01 — Underlying Factors
I work with you to find out all the factors contributing to your chronic pain and then systematically and holistically address them. Factors such as inflammation, immune dysregulation, hormonal balance, the gut-brain axis and microbial load, stress responses and the brain’s pain pathways among others are examined.
02 — Treatment Path
Often the cause for chronic pain can’t be clearly explained by a medical model, even when it can, the solutions can be limited or invasive. Information about pain is hard to access and the treatments are frequently symptomatic rather than really addressing the underlying cause. Chronic pain is complex and just managing one aspect or relying on a symptomatic approach will not necessarily resolve pain.
03 — Management
Once we understand the contributors to your pain, together we will dedicatedly manage it and make lasting healthy changes for long-term wellbeing.
Together we will work from a bio-psycho-social approach: to do this we will understand and work with the medical and biochemical issues causing your pain, the patterns keeping you in the pain cycle and the impact the pain has on your interactions with friends and family, and finally help you set goals that envision a brighter future. We will work together to create a unique treatment path for you.
04 — Experience Lasting Change
Working with together will allow you to get back in the driver’s seat and reduce the threat of pain and pain itself, increasing your quality of life so that you can back into life, feel better and move more freely.
Find a path through the maze of approaches for a solution that suits your individual needs
Are you willing to make the changes that are needed and participate in your healing journey?
If you answered yes, then you:
Are willing to make changes they need and participate in your healing journey.
Are fed up with pain and ready to commit to a plan.
Expect to experience lasting improvement in pain management and your overall quality of life
Realise that improvement can take time but are willing to follow this path to experience lasting change.