You’ve tried different ways to get better but…
You’re still in pain. Still struggling and suffering.
There is a way forward.
We work out where you are stuck and help you achieve freedom.
I’m Richmond Stace・Multidisciplinary Pain Specialist [MSc BSc (Hons), BSc Physio, PGDip Nursing], offering unique breadth and depth of experience to help you ease your pain and suffering.
Pain Physio・Rehabilitation ・Pain Coaching ・Pain Science
For over 25 years, I have been helping people transform persistent and complex pain — when everything else has failed.
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Who I help
You may have tried treatments, therapies, medications or procedures.
You may have been told nothing more can be done. Or you’re still searching for answers.
Many people I work with feel:
- stuck or losing hope
- afraid to move in case they make things worse
- frustrated treatments haven’t worked
- exhausted from trying to cope
- worried this is now life forever
But persistent pain changes when we understand and address the real root causes.
There is a way forward.
Scroll down to see the list of conditions I can help with ⬇️
What is Pain Physio + Rehab + Pain Coaching?
A personalised, science-based approach to transforming persistent and complex pain.
Persistent pain isn’t just about your body. It’s about you, your life, your unmet needs, past experiences and the pressures of life: all well-established in pain science.
As a Multidisciplinary Pain Specialist, I bring over 25 years of clinical expertise to every session — rigorous, evidence-based, and built entirely around you.
Together we:
∙ understand what your pain is really telling you
∙ build practical skills that work in real life
∙ reconnect you with confidence, movement and life
Personalised care, treatment and rehabilitation. Transformation.
What do people say?
“I’m hugely grateful to Richmond for helping me to resolve my hand, wrist and arm pain, which I’d been suffering with for two years. I’d already seen multiple consultants, had steroid injections and worked with specialist upper limb physios without any success before I came to Richmond.
Despite being initially sceptical, Richmond taught me to understand and view my pain from a different perspective and re-set my response to pain and stress.
Within just a few months my pain had reduced significantly. Thank you Richmond for your intuition, patience and compassion.
I am hugely grateful to you and would highly recommend you to anyone suffering with chronic pain.”
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“I felt that I tried everything and that it had all failed. I felt the pain at all times of the day and night and that I couldn’t enjoy anything in life.
As a 47 year old mother of 2 teens, I felt so depressed that I couldn’t see a way out.
Everything in my family life revolved around my pain.
Richmond was the first person in this whole journey I believed really understood my pain. He put words on it that I couldn’t and with just 1 session, I already had a completely different approach to my chronic pain.
I realised that no procedure that was done to me could help, and that I had to take this into my own hands.
With the following sessions, Richmond helped me take a proactive and positive approach.
Richmond helped me transform my life in the last few months. I’m able to do a lot more, I’m not restricting myself so much for fear of pain, the techniques also help my training to be more efficient … and most importantly, the joy is back!”
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A big ‘thank you’ for the journey you have taken me on.
At my first appointment I had given up running with my son, could barely cycle without pain and was being guided down a path of hip replacement surgery in my mid 40s.
A year later I regularly run 5-10km (with a few new PBs!) and completed the ‘Maratona’ (an amateur bike race through the Dolomites) in the summer.
All with no drugs and no surgery.
Unless I had done it, I would not have believed it was possible.
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I first visited Richmond after four years of recurring pain in my elbows and wrists. Pain which I first felt while cycling back and forward to the Royal Marsden Hospital in Chelsea, where my mother was in her final weeks of life.
In hindsight, I can see that the discomfort was linked to emotional stress.
It preventing me from participating in the sports I loved myself. My arms were beginning to feel like they were on fire – and then in desperation I googled “chronic pain” and stumbled across Richmond.
He calmly spoke to me about the brain-body links that underpinned my struggles, and showed me how to re-engage with squash and swimming and build up my tolerance levels.
I have learned to take a more mindful approach to my body – while also controlling my wider stresses through regular meditation.
Had I not met Richmond, I dread to think how long I would have spent as a prisoner of chronic pain.
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I was suffering from chronic pain in both my wrists that was affecting my ability to work and my mental health.
Over the course of six months, I spoke to numerous doctors and physiotherapists, but none were able to provide effective advice and treatment.
Then I was referred to Richmond.
At the first consultation, I immediately had confidence that Richmond understood the problem in a way that no one else had.
His treatment began to show results quickly, and within a few months had entirely resolved the problem.
More than that, he provided me with the techniques and mindset I needed to prevent a recurrence.
A decade on, and I have been pain free throughout.
I cannot recommend his services highly enough to anyone suffering from a similar chronic pain issue, and remain enormously grateful to him for what he did for me.
What I can help you with
✅ Persistent, chronic and complex pain
✅ Back pain・Neck pain・Spinal pain
✅ Fibromyalgia
✅ Persisting and recurring sports injuries
✅ Complex Regional Pain Syndrome・CRPS
✅ Osteoarthritis
✅ Post-operative persistent pain
✅ Headaches・Migraines
✅ Chronic widespread pain
✅ Pelvic pain in males and females
✅ Dystonia & FND
Why work with me
With over 30 years’ experience across nursing, physiotherapy, rehabilitation, coaching and pain science, I bring a truly multidisciplinary understanding of recovery.
But most importantly:
I see you, the person, not just the pain.
People work with me because:
- they feel listened to and understood
- they finally understand their pain
- they gain clarity and direction
- they learn practical tools that work in real life
- they regain confidence and independence
- they return to living fully again
This is personalised care, not a protocol.
We work together to help you live yourself better.
Understand and Overcome Your Chronic Pain–
the book
“This is different to every other book on pain that’s out there. It makes you feel like he’s got a reassuring arm around your shoulder as you embark on the journey together. I can’t recommend it enough.”
Louise Trewern
National Pain Advocate, Fellow Durham University Wolfson Research Institute for Health & Wellbeing Lead Lived Experience Trainer Live Well With Pain, Immediate Past Vice Chair British Pain Society Patient Voice Committee
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RICHMOND STACE – THE PAIN WHISPERER: I can’t speak highly enough of Richmond.
When I came to see him, I had been in extreme pain for nearly a year and a half, was taking high dose Opiates and neuropathic pain medication, and was unable to sit down, due to a mysterious ‘pain in the arse’ – literally! Like a lot people, Richmond was my last port of call, having seen a number of different osteopaths, physiotherapists and pain doctors, even consulting with an eminent American pain specialist, but nothing had worked and I was beginning to feel depressed and despondent. Through a strange sequence of events, an Australian physiotherapist, working in China, recommended Richmond – such is his reputation. And well deserved it is.
He is sensitive, non-judgmental, caring, takes you seriously and is a bit of a magician!
Within a few sessions I was able to come off my medication, sit down and forget about my bum! I had to put my cynicism aside, as a lot of what helped was the ‘hippy sh*t’, but it’s all backed up with fascinating science and I will tell anyone who will listen, they don’t need to be in pain and Richmond should be their first port of call.
I started with an online consultation with Richmond and it was different then all other pain therapies I did till this point.
He looks at people as a whole in order to then find out where the problem is and then solve it. Before the sessions I had back problems and I thought it will take forever to cure them, but after three sessions it started to get a lot better.
Thank you Richmond! I can only recommend to work with you.
Over the past eighteen months I have had symptoms relating to Long Covid. These have included anxiety, depression, severe fatigue, memory problems and joint/tendon inflammation.
Over the sessions we had together, Richmond listened to my concerns carefully, offered his understanding of the cause of each symptom and then agreed a realistic intervention from a wide variety of approaches to address the issues.
Each session began with an update of my symptoms, a review of how I had responded to any intervention and then advice to improve things further or alter the approach.
Without a doubt I have recovered sufficiently to return to work and I will be able to continue using the many simple but effective tools to maintain my physical and mental health that Richmond has taught.
The time I invested in my sessions with Richmond were well worth it.
Richmond Stace is my go-to clinician for any person in pain, and he’s completely re-shaped the way I think about pain as a Doctor. He’s guided the recovery and empowerment of so many of my patients who’ve trapped for years by the way that their pain had made them think, feel and move.
The most amazing part is that it’s all based on awesome science – yet he makes the process so ‘human’.
He’s an inspiring speaker and coach, and a day spent learning from him is likely the be the best day of education you’ll ever have.
Richmond Stace really helped me and more importantly empowered me to get out of a hole! His holistic approach, with no stone left unturned, got me to see clearly where I was and provided me with the tool box not only to get fit again but hopefully to stay healthy.
I’d had a year of plantar fasciitis and other on-going chronic injuries before I turned to Richmond. With a range of mental and physical techniques, he helped me to heal and get back on track with my running. We worked really hard at integrating a support system of exercises into my daily life that underpin my running and give me the confidence and strength to run long and hard again.
If you’re looking for a slightly different approach from the norm that really does work – look no further!
Locations
The Chelsea Consulting Rooms
2 Lower Sloane Street
London
SW1W 8BJ
132 Harley Street
London
W1G 7JX