Pain Neuroscience Education (PNE)
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
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.
“I especially benefitted from learning the TRE sequence to release pain. After my first session I was pain free for 5 weeks.
This has never happened before.”