Living Well Clinic
Relief & Recovery From Chronic Pain
Chronic Pain Management Blog
Whether you’re just beginning your recovery journey or continuing along the path, this space is for you. Welcome to the Living Well Clinic blog — a supportive place for those living with chronic pain or symptoms and who are ready to explore new ways of healing and living well with pain.
I’ll be sharing practical strategies for managing persistent pain, inspiring case studies and stories from others on similar journeys, the latest in pain science research, and a behind-the-scenes look at what’s happening here at Living Well Clinic, including our work with The Pain Keys® programme. If you’re searching for hope, clarity, and real-world tools to help you find relief and recovery you’re in the right place.
- Pain Reprocessing Therapy for CRPS
What is CRPS (Complex Regional Pain Syndrome)? CRPS is a debilitating post-traumatic pain disorder that usually develops in a limb, often after an injury, a surgery, a stroke or a heart attack, but then spreads to other areas. The pain is out of proportion to the severity of the initial injury and is known to… - What is Somatic Tracking? (And could it help your chronic pain or symptoms?)
If you suffer from persistent pain or chronic symptoms, you’ve probably heard of a new intervention called Somatic Tracking. But what is it exactly? And is it worth trying? Is it possible to ‘train your brain’ out of chronic pain? That’s the aim of Somatic Tracking and it’s the key technique from Pain Reprocessing Therapy…. - What is Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT)?
What is Pain Reprocessing Therapy? Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) is a relatively new psychological treatment that offers an innovative, evidence-based approach to help people overcome chronic pain or symptoms by retraining the brain’s response to pain signals. We now know that most chronic pain is neuroplastic in nature—that it is caused by learned neural pathways… - The Surprising New Science Behind Chronic Pain
Pain Is A Protector Pain is a danger signal⚡. It protects us from further damage—to make us remove our hand from something hot, to stop us walking on an injured ankle, to make sure we take time to let injuries heal. The latest research shows that most forms of chronic pain don’t stem from physical… - Hypnotherapy Facts and Hypnosis Myths (What you really need to know)
Myths and misconceptions abound about hypnosis, largely due to its portrayal in films, television, and as stage entertainment. Growing up in the 1970s, I’ll never forget the excitement of watching Uri Geller (on a three channel television!), bending forks and bringing watches back to life, as if by magic. I rushed to raid the kitchen…