Are you suffering persistent or chronic pain?
Do you feel stuck and frustrated?
Is pain stopping you do the things you love?
Does it feel as though you have limited choices?
Are you struggling to recover from an injury?
Tried many things but they don’t work?
I am here to help you
How I help you
Pain Physio + Rehab + Pain Coaching is a personalised and holistic approach that equips you to ease and transform your pain.
To set you up for lasting success:
- We clarify your needs and aims.
- We create a personalised strategy to meet your needs and achieve your aims.
- I show and teach you skills, and how to implement them in your world:
- To ease your pain.
- How to do the things you need and want to do in your life: ‘living yourself better’
- To achieve your goals.
- To be well, including exercise, breathing, mindfulness, movement, relaxation, sleep.
- Skills to deal with challenges along the way.
What do you get?
Expert and specialist advice, treatment and guidance
- You will understand your pain.
- Skills and tools to ease and transform your pain and suffering.
- How to create the conditions for healing and recovery.
- Ways to increase your energy.
- Skills to build your health and wellness.
- Knowledge and know-how to apply your skills in your world.
- How to form healthy habits.
- Learn how to self-care, a keystone of overcoming chronic pain.
- How to communicate about your pain.
- How to focus, cultivate awareness and be present.
- Skills of compassion and self-compassion key for recovery.
- Guidance, support and encouragement all the way.
- Post-session email summaries with all the practical instructions, insights and useful resources.
- Hope. There is great hope.
Giving you the knowledge, skills and know-how to do the things you love and to live yourself better
What happens in Sessions?
- Online sessions: I can work with you wherever you are in the world. Online sessions are convenient and more flexible. You practice in your world straight away. The work we do together online is the same as face to face.
- Clinic face to face sessions: The Chelsea Consulting Rooms and 132 Harley Street by request.
Following the initial conversation and assessment, we create your personalised way forward, designed to help you understand your pain and move on to live a fulfilling life.
Each session focuses on practical skills, exercises and strategies that you can use to ease pain and live your life. We practice together so that you know what you will be doing and how you will do it.
Following each session, your plan and the key points are emailed to you: practices and insights. Plus any resources that will be useful.
The sessions are approximately an hour to give us the time we need together.
Pain Physiotherapy・Rehabilitation・Pain coaching・Pain Science
Persistent and complex pain is a specialist field with specific knowledge and skills to create your individualised programme of care to help you ease your pain, improve your life and reconnect with what matters.
We start by helping you understand your pain and then look at the many different skills, tools, practices, exercises and strategies that you can use to achieve your goals.
There are four overlapping themes we work to together:
(1) specific skills and exercises to achieve your specific goals
(2) skills to ease and sustainably transform your pain, and deal with challenging moments
(3) skills to live your best life and do the things you want and need to in your day to day living
(4) skills of being well
Here are some examples of what we do together, depending on your needs and goals:
- Understand your pain
- Improve and restore normal movement
- Increase mobility and flexibility
- Develop the body sense we need to move and be skilful
- Build strength and fitness
- Specific movements and skills for sports and work
- Rest and recovery skills and strategies
- Sleep habit
- Managing & building energy
- Planning, prioritising and periodising your day
- Habits of peak performers to achieve success
- Motor imagery & visualisation
- Breathing practices
- Mindfulness and focused attention training
- Hands on treatment to ease pain and stiffness
Beyond these are more nuanced skills and practices that help you to achieve specific goals you may have.
The coaching style has been purposely chosen, having founded and pioneered pain coaching over the past 20 years. Pain Physio + Rehab + Coaching is specifically designed to help you if you are suffering persistent or chronic pain.
Coaching puts you first, a person who is suffering but who has strengths, a positive history and an ability to make changes for the better.
Together we focus on what matters to you and then create practical ways to achieve your goals.
Overcoming pain is a proactive process of learning, understanding, creating new habits and living life in the best way, and knowing how things are now is not how they will be.
There are a number of insights that together with your new knowledge of pain, help you make best choices to navigate your way forwards.
I am here to guide, encourage and motivate you to be successful, building your confidence and independence.
I have been an active and enthusiastic sportsman all of my life but reached a point where a running injury and its aftermath left me in constant discomfort and wondering if I would ever run again.
After over a year and a half of physio, scans and injections and with my options for recovery running out, Richmond was recommended to me. He started out by thoroughly understanding the problem and then proceeded to address it through a holistic mind and body approach of visualisation and flexibility exercises. The transformation through just 4 sessions has been phenomenal; I am starting to run again and have completed challenging hill walks that I couldn’t possibly have before.
I would thoroughly recommend him.
I came to visit Richmond suffering chronic knee pain for a couple of years that stemmed from a needless surgery many years previously.
The pain varied in intensity, but it often caused me problems both while running and afterwards – and also interfered with my daily life. Just walking was sometimes enough to trigger stabbing pains.
I’d more or less exhausted traditional physio and medical solutions so decided to try Richmond after finding him online. His approach and exercises (ones that focus on the mind and body as one) succeeded in complementing conventional physio, and allowed me to reframe and reduce my perception of pain.
I’m now able to run again and get on with life without the ever present worry of knee pain – and I’m very grateful.
After several years of stubborn residual post-surgery hip-pain, Richmond and his infinite calm, patience and interest helped me to within weeks be able to get out of a chair without any pain. From there it went up and onward, with all pains disappearing within months.
I’m now able to do my yoga, long walks, tap-dancing and lots of running around without any pains at all.
And the best of all – I can sleep through the night without waking up due to the pain! Thank you!
Locations
The Chelsea Consulting Rooms
2 Lower Sloane Street
London
SW1W 8BJ
132 Harley Street
London
W1G 7JX