Understand Pain Talk & Workshop

I have been working with people suffering chronic pain and health issues for over 20 years in different settings, including the NHS, sport, business and private healthcare.I am Chartered Physiotherapist with a background in nursing, rehabilitation, coaching and pain sciences. In 1999, I set up theSpecialist Pain Physio Clinicsto focus on helping people who are suffering chronic pain, persistent pain, recurring injuries and complex conditions to improve their lives using practical knowledge, skills, training and treatment.Over the past 10 years I have pioneered The Pain Coach Programme. This is a blend of the latest pain science,  where I keep an academic foothold, with strengths-based coaching that uses the habits of peak performance to achieve success. The Programme offers a comprehensive and positive approach to understand pain and live a fulfilling life.In 2015 I co-founded the social enterpriseUnderstand Painwith a then patient suffering CRPS. The purpose of UP is to raise awareness of the problem of pain, the No1 global health burden, and to help people improve their lives by giving them practocal knowlegde and skills. One of the main projects is#upandrunthat combines my ultrarunning with UP Workshops.

Richmond Stace MCSP MSc BSc (Hons) Specialist Pain Physiotherapist | Pain Coach | Honorary Clinical Lecturer

Do you suffer chronic or persistent pain? 
Come and understand your pain and learn how you can improve your life

The Groves Medical Centre

<h1>Are you suffering persistent or chronic pain?</h1><p>"...the workshop helped me take the next leap. Anyone who is struggling with pain would benefit so much from getting a better understanding - instead of taking numerous drugs, which is the immediate answer but not the long term solution (even though I still take some) - I really believe that Understand Pain should be part of something like the NHS Pain Clinics, I'm sure it would cost an awful lot less than it currently does !!! Thanks again really useful session."</p><h3>What is your picture of success? What steps must I take each day? </h3><p>In the workshop we look at 3 steps:</p><ul><li>Understand your pain</li><li>Know how to apply the brakes and gain control in challenging moments</li><li>Build wellness and take steps each day towards your picture of success</li></ul><p>Co-founder of UP, Richmond Stace, uses a blend of pain science and strengths-based coaching to tap into your potential. Richmond pioneered The Pain Coach Programme as a way for people to understand their pain and move on to living a fulfilling life. Whilst pain relief is always an aim, one of the most effective ways of living your best life is by building wellness. Wellness is our greatest buffer to life's challenges. When we feel well, we can face the inevitable ups and downs that life presents for us, and there are now the known skills of being well that we can all practice. This on a background of truly understanding your pain is a potent force to improve your life. </p><h3>This is your opportunity to learn how you can move on.</h3><p>This workshop does not replace your existing treatment programme, instead sitting alongside what you are already doing, but very much focusing on how you can improve your life.</p><p>This event is free, however we do welcome donations if possible, so that we can build and develop our work.</p><p>The UP workshops are part of the #upandrun project from Understand Pain. The project is a combination of Richmond running ultramarathons to raise awareness, and UP workshops to deliver the right messages into the heart of society.</p>

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