Chronic Pain

Chronic Pain

You are NOT alone! At The Health Formula, we understand what you are going through and are here to help. 

What Is Chronic Pain?

Pain is said to be chronic if it persists beyond the normal tissue healing time of about three months. After this time your tissues are generally fully healed, yet pain can persist. This is because your nervous system can become overly sensitive, amplifying messages to your brain, leading to feelings of pain even when there is no longer any tissue damage. 

So what causes your nervous system to become overly sensitive in the first place? Chronic pain is complex and multifactorial with many underyling causes and influencing factors. Our beliefs and expectations, high stress levels, lack of sleep and physical activity, inflammatory diseases and poor diet & lifestyle choices… It’s these factors that ultimately prime our nervous system to become unduly sensitive.  

How We Help

At the Health Formula, we take the time to understand you and the unique factors contributing to your chronic pain. Using a multi-disciplinary approach we aim to alleviate your symptoms and address the underlying drivers.

combines pain education, hands-on manual therapies, graded exercise rehabilitation and diet and lifestyle modifications, we aim to help alleviate your symptoms and address the underlying drivers for improved outcomes.

• Pain education to help you understand your pain
• Manual therapy to ease pain and get you moving again
• Graded activity and exercise to reduce pain and build robustness
• Stress management and mindfulness 
• Sleep optimisation
• Social support
• Overall health improvement, including dietary modification to reduced inflammation
• Nutritional therapies and medications as indicated