Dealing with persistent pain?
A gentle note before you read on
You don’t need to understand everything on this page.
You don’t need to agree with it all.
Many people arrive here feeling tired, confused, or unsure what applies to them. That’s okay.
You’re welcome to read what feels helpful, leave what doesn’t, and come back later if you want to.
This page is here to offer perspective — not to ask you to make a decision.
1 in 5 people suffer from some kind of persistent pain on a daily basis
Many people suffer from conditions that mean they are living with persistent pain. Some studies put the number far above one in five, but the global phenomenon of persistent pain blights so many lives. Reducing or resolving this type of pain has frustrated patients and medical practitioners for decades. Neuroscience is teaching us that change and a life free from persistent pain is possible.
Based on current neuroscience and behaviour change principles, you have an opportunity to take the first steps on your journey to recovery.
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 over twenty-five 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.
This service will help you:
Learn why you developed your pain
Change the belief associated with it
Understand its true meaning
Release the emotions attached to it
Start your journey to recovery
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.
It’s true…
Everyone deserves to have a life free from chronic pain.
Introducing The Pain Habit Method
Understand why you developed pain in the first place, recognize habits that prolong the healing & start your journey to recovery.
Let us teach you the 4 core steps that help you deal with your pain.
Change one and you change your pain.
Change all four and you change your life.
Think
Your thoughts dictate how you breathe, move, and feel.
Breathe
The way you breathe influences how you move, feel, and think.
Move
How you move influences how you feel, think, and breathe
Feel
How you feel changes how you think, breathe and move
Are you a patient with persistent pain?
Our initial 75 min session includes:
The assessment will take a complete medical history, including subjective and objective findings.
I will listen to your story, and we’ll explore your pathway into persistent/chronic pain. Your goals will be established, and treatment will be explained and started in this session. Any questions you have will be answered, and you will feel confident and empowered to continue with your recovery.
What will you get?
You will understand your pain and see its true meaning for you. We’ll create a pathway for you to recover from it. Change can be immediate or take several weeks or months, but recovery is always possible. It is dependent on belief change, commitment, and action, and I will help you start your journey.
Taking each step is down to you, but I’ll provide you with lots of resources to help you along the way, and I'll be available 1:1 again should you feel you need to arrange that input.
Persistent Pain Consultations are self-funded and are not covered by private health insurance.
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