Pain Neuroscience Education in West London
What is PNE?
Pain Neuroscience Education is a modern scientific strategy to help you reduce/ eliminate chronic pain perception. By expanding your knowledge of how pain works I can help you rethink your experience of persistent pain.
This knowledge, especially when combined with TRE and Cognitive Hypnotherapy for chronic pain, will create new neural pathways away from pain, and towards comfort and ease.
Pain Neuroscience Education aims to help you connect your mind more effectively to your body, decrease catastrophisation, boost your confidence, increase your ability to find safety in your body, and help you to pinpoint areas of your life that may be contributing to your pain perception- with the intention of creating change in these areas. It can help improve your quality of life, whatever your current situation.
PNE helps to reduce brain activity in brain regions associated with pain, decrease fear of movement, and improve pain thresholds during exercise and daily life.
PNE is an effective therapy for anxiety related to pain.
PNE can result in immediate and long lasting positive change to your pain perception, enabling you to live a full, confident, pain free life.
According to NICE, pain drugs do more harm than good for people with persistent pain. They have also concluded that there is ‘little or no evidence that they made any difference to people’s quality of life, pain or psychological distress, and there was evidence that they can cause addiction.’
There is a better way to approach chronic pain.
Watch leading Pain Scientist Lorimer Mosely talk about the Explain Pain approach.
What can PNE help with?
Pain Neuroscience Education is helpful for reducing/eliminating persistent pain perception from chronic musculoskeletal conditions such as
Low back pain
Spinal pain
Fibromyalgia
Pelvic Pain
Osteoarthritis
Sciatica
Neck pain
Migraine
Whiplash
Vulvodynia
Somatoform Disorders
Idiopathic Pain (pain with no known origin)
It can also help to prepare you for surgery.
I use the Explain Pain approach and Pain Reprocessing Therapy to offer online Pain Neuroscience Education in West London via Zoom.
Some more information about PNE can be found here.
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Yes. Stress, overwhelm, poor sleep and emotional tension can increase nervous system sensitivity, often intensifying chronic pain symptoms and flare cycles.
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Yes. Chronic pain is always real. Pain is influenced by many factors including the nervous system, stress physiology, emotions, immune activity and past experiences, not only structural damage visible on scans- in fact, pain can exist entirely in the absence of tissue damage.
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Central sensitisation describes a state where the nervous system becomes increasingly sensitive and overprotective over time, amplifying pain signals and physical symptoms. its a bit like having the volume stuck on ‘up’
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yes- chronic pain is influenced by a combination of the nervous system, brain, immune system, stress physiology and past experiences, as well as the body itself. In some cases, the nervous system can become increasingly sensitive and protective over time, amplifying pain signals and symptoms.
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Pain flare cycles can be influenced by many factors including stress, poor sleep, overactivity, fear, emotional overwhelm and nervous system sensitisation.
Understanding these patterns can help reduce fear, and support more effective pacing and recovery strategies.
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Sometimes pain can continue after tissues have healed because the nervous system has become increasingly sensitive and protective. The brain changes how it responds to signals from the body, resulting in ongoing pain.
Stress, fear, emotions, past experiences, poor sleep and persisting nervous system activation can all influence how pain is produced and experienced. Understanding these processes can help reduce fear and support recovery.
““I have really loved working with Ella.
Her calm kind and friendly demeanour is in and of itself most encouraging.
Her knowledge of neuroplastic pain and symptoms is amazing.
She has a very intelligent approach to her work and real empathy for her clients. I had been having some very troublesome neck and shoulder pain which kept me awake at night. These days it is a lot better and I am back sleeping again.”