Treatment now.
Performance later.

Chronic pain is pain that has persisted for long enough that it is now seemingly a permanent part of your life. Pain science/education has progressed quite quickly over the past decades, sadly the application to individual Patients is often still quite poor. It is assumed that if you are reading this, you have had a history of frustrating or unsuccessful treatments for your pain (If only you had a dollar for every time you someone said the word neuroplastic to you)

 

 

Treatment with chronic pain Physiotherapist Raph follows Integrative healthcare principles treats the person as a whole unit and pain as not an isolated output, but something affective the whole person. No body system is isolated and separate from everything else, everything is connected. Sometimes a muscle strain and just be a simple strain, however with chronic pain, it is assumed that Patients have various complicating, non physical factors that interact with their pain.

 

Treatment at RFR operates under this framework and is thus highly individualised. It does however follow a rough 5 step model of introduction and history, education (if required), skill learning, skill refinement and review.

 

You will primarily learn to use physical activities in various ways as a tool to manage your pain. And yes I will ask you to keep a pain diary, but you can always use an old one if you like. Its value comes from how you use it.

Success is hard to define, and only you can tell me what a win looks like, however I always aim for the same goal at the outset. Giving Patients the skills and knowledge to use physical activity as a lever that reliably affects pain in some way. One of the worst aspects of being in chronic pain is the control it takes away from your life as it follows its own schedule. Like a horse that you are strapped too with no reins. Having a reliable and predictable tool in your arsenal that you are in control of allows you to leash, and exert some influence over the direction of your chronic pain. A modest but achievable and valuable goal.

 

Given the long-term nature of chronic pain, and the investment required in starting a new relationship with a therapist. The first session will not focus on treatment, rather as a getting to know you session, it’s important to know if you click with your therapist. In respect of this, the first session fee will be discounted by 90 percent.