Dealing with persistent pain?

Yet, not everyone knows how to achieve that. Those who do recover intuitively tap into that ability without thinking. Others don't know where to look, look everywhere outside of themselves, believe recovery is impossible, and finally stop looking anymore. Has that happened to you?

Physiotherapist Drew Coverdale, after nearly 30 years of working with patients in pain, offers an enlightening outlook on the habitual patterns which lead to our pain and outlines the path to recovery.

Your brain, body and nervous system work together through instinct, past experience and prediction. The patterns that helped you adapt may sometimes also be helping to keep persistent pain active.

This consultation may help you:

• make sense of persistent or recurring pain in the context of your whole experience;

• understand how the brain, body and nervous system may be responding through instinct, past experience and prediction;

• explore physical findings, fears, habits or patterns without dismissing any part of your history;

• notice blind spots or automatic responses that may be keeping the system under pressure;

• identify where more choice, flexibility or possibility may be available now;

• find a gentle and realistic next step.

If you’re considering the next step

Some people read this page and feel a clear sense that it resonates with them. Others feel unsure, curious, or conflicted. All of those responses are valid.

Booking an appointment isn’t a commitment to having it all figured out. For many people, clarity comes through the conversation itself.

Many people arrive feeling unsure, cautious, or quietly hopeful — all of that is welcome here.

This first session is an opportunity to slow things down, make sense of what’s been happening, and explore what might help next.

There’s no expectation to push through symptoms or to “get it right”.

When you’re ready, you can book an appointment below.