Understand Your Pain.
Rebuild Your Confidence.
Get More of Your Life Back.
The Retraining Pain Programme
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Living with persistent pain can affect almost every part of your life.
You may have tried treatments, exercises, medication or simply pushing through — but still feel stuck.
Retraining Pain offers a different approach.
Our online programme helps you understand why pain persists and gives you practical tools to change the way you respond to pain, movement and everyday life.
Pain Is More Than What You Feel in Your Body
Persistent pain is complex.
It can affect your sleep, mood, confidence, relationships, work and ability to do the things you enjoy.
And when pain continues, your nervous system can become increasingly protective.
This can leave you caught in a cycle of:
- Pain and flare-ups
- Fear of movement
- Avoiding activity
- Doing too much on a good day and paying for it afterwards
- Poor sleep and fatigue
- Worry and frustration
- Losing confidence in your body
Retraining Pain helps you understand these patterns — and learn how to start changing them.
A Different Way to Approach Persistent Pain
Our programme brings together pain psychology and physiotherapy to help you understand both the physical and psychological aspects of persistent pain.
You’ll learn how to:
âś“ Understand what is happening when you experience pain
âś“ Calm an overprotective nervous system
âś“ Reduce fear around movement and activity
âś“ Recognise unhelpful pain patterns
âś“ Approach flare-ups differently
âś“ Build activity gradually and safely
âś“ Improve confidence in your body
âś“ Work towards the activities that matter to you
The aim isn’t to tell you to ignore your pain or simply “push through”.
It’s to help you develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to respond to pain differently.
Created by Pain Specialists
Dr Romy Sherlock
Pain Specialist Clinical Psychologist
Andy Laird
Pain Specialist Physiotherapist
We have helped thousands of people living with persistent pain.
We created Retraining Pain to bring together the psychological and physical sides of pain rehabilitation in one accessible online programme.
Learn at Your Own Pace
The programme is online, so you can work through it from home and at a pace that works for you.
Rather than overwhelming you with information, we guide you through practical steps that you can begin applying to your everyday life.
Because recovery isn't about doing everything at once.
It's about making small, meaningful changes that build over time.
Who Is Retraining Pain For?
This programme may be right for you if persistent pain is affecting your:
- Movement or activity
- Sleep
- Work
- Mood
- Confidence
- Relationships
- Independence
- Ability to enjoy everyday life
It may also be helpful if you feel you've tried lots of different approaches but still don't really understand why you're in pain or what to do next.
Start Retraining Pain
You don't need another person telling you to “just exercise”, “push through” or “learn to live with it”.
You need to understand what's happening and have a practical way forward.
Retrain. Reframe. Recover.
Alice
'I’m able to manage my pain symptoms so much better these days and Ive learnt that I have control over my own body which I never thought I would. I don’t think I would be in this position if I hadn’t had support from you so I just wanted to say thank you so much for everything you did for me. The techniques you taught me have changed my life and I’m very grateful to have learnt from you and to be living the life I am now.'Â
Mr Hall
'I would recommend to anyone with pain. I have my life back and it’s down to Romy and Andy working with me.
I'm now going out for walks and enjoying life and looking at getting back into work this next year.'Â