“Take Back Control of Your Recovery, Life & Being you Again.”
Musculoskeletal injury and pain can be tough when it affects how you feel, how you feel about yourself, and stops you doing the things that you love and are important.
Research shows that those who understand pain and take active control of their recovery hurt less.
We offer 1-2-1 and group workshop support to help you understand your injury and pain, and to ensure you take back the control needed for your best recovery.
To do this, we use the latest pain science and psychology.
Why Think Differently?
Much of what we think we know about injury, pain and recovery is incorrect and unhelpful. Instead:
- The brain has a key role in how well you heal and how you trigger, feel and cope with pain.
- Injury and pain have physical, psychological and social causes.
- Pain doesn’t mean tissue damage: Tissue damage doesn’t mean pain.
- The longer pain lasts, the more your brain will have learnt to feel it.
Why Take Control?
Research shows that:
- We can control our healing, pain and recovery more than we typically think.
- The human brain is far more powerful than any human-made drug, and has no side-effects.
- There are new evidence-based solutions, i.e., to think, feel and do the correct, helpful things.
Can We Help You? Yes, if you…
- Have ANY musculoskeletal injury or pain that is not due to a disease. Including; fractures, sprains, strains, joint pain, chronic pain, tendonitis, osteoarthritis …
- Are 16 years+*.
- Live in/will access the service from the UK/Ireland.
- Do not have an untreated, mental health concern.
- Want to understand and take control of your recovery.
- *16-18 years? Please ‘Book a Free Chat’ for you & your primary care-giver to attend.
Our Support Explained: How to Reduce Your Injury and Pain
Our support is provided by Caroline Marlow who will help you to:
- Understand your injury and pain, and what affects your recovery.
- Think, feel and do the helpful things within your everyday life that will improve your recovery.
- Increase your control, protect your wellbeing, and get you back to normal as fast as possible. Or if some pain remains, to find your new way of living a fulfilled life.
1-2-1 Support: Available online and face-to-face.
Always start with a Starter Consultation. Then chose from our continuing support options: ‘Pay as you Go’ or a ‘Support Programme’.
Starter Consultation: 1 hour @ £95.
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Starter Consultation: 1 hour @£95
A thorough discussion of your injury or pain to set you on your way to a better recovery. Exact content depends on your needs, but typically it includes:
- A review of your injury or pain experience and your recovery aims.
- Starting to understand the many (biological, psychological and social) factors that affect your injury/pain recovery and management.
- Starting to understand why these factors are helping or hindering your recovery, so that you can start to make more informed decisions.
Also, information and work sheets to help reinforce your understanding of injury, pain and recovery, and to start the process of understanding how to improve your own recovery.
BOOK A STARTER CONSULTATION: Online only
Interested in Face-to-Face, 1-2-1 Support? We can come to your office or club during normal work hours or arrange consultation rooms in Putney, London and in Eastbourne, SE England.
Cost depends on session length and room booking/travel costs: We are based in the SE England. Please email us for a quote, stating your location and usual time availability.
‘Pay As You Go’ Support. 1 hour @ £95
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‘Pay As You Go’ Support. 1 hour @ £95
A single support session that includes:
- Support to help you make a specific change recommended in your Starter Consultation report.
- Relevant information and exercise sheets to help you understand the causes of injury, pain and recovery, and to guide you through the specific change we discussed to help you.
BOOK ‘PAY AS YOU GO’ Support: Online only
Interested in Face-to-Face, 1-2-1 Support? We can come to your office or club during normal work hours or arrange consultation rooms in Putney, London and in Eastbourne, SE England.
Cost depends on session length and room booking/travel costs: We are based in the SE England. Please email us for a quote, stating your location and usual time availability.
Support Programmes: 5 x 1 hour @ £475
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Support Programmes: 5 x 1 hour @ £475
A choice of two personalised programmes of 5 x 1 hour video call support sessions.
- Retrain the Pain will help you overcome the inevitable frustrations and lows of having pain. It does this by helping you understand why and how the brain and body create pain, and the causes of your pain. It then supports you through the key changes required to help you think, feel and act your way to controlling and reducing your pain.
- Think to Recovery supports you through the different psychological stages of the injury recovery process, i.e., from initial emotional impact and day-to-day difficulties to returning to normal activity. It will help you understand how the brain and body work together to help recovery and reduce the chance of reinjury. It then supports you through the key changes required to help you think, feel and act your way to better recovery.
Both Programmes:
Using Behaviour Change theory, the programmes are deliberately paced to give you the best chance of regaining control of injury and pain, for both now and the future: The 6 sessions normally occur over 3 months.
Content Overview:
- 5 x 1-2-1 sessions of up to 60 minutes over three months.
- Information and worksheets to help you understand the causes of injury, pain and recovery, and to guide you through key changes.
- Goals, plans and direction on what to change and how to make change manageable.
- Regular reviews to ensure appropriate programme personalisation and progression.
- Email support between sessions to help keep you accountable and on track with your new recovery strategies.
Please note, the sooner key changes to help recovery/reduce pain are taken, the greater and faster the chance of effective recovery.
Are others helping you with your pain? With your consent, we can be work alongside others, e.g., medics and managers, to provide timely and co-ordinated support. Please Get in Touch or tell us within your session, so that we can discuss required co-ordination and costs.
BOOK A SUPPORT PROGRAMME: Online only
Interested in Face-to-Face, 1-2-1 Support? We can come to your office or club during normal work hours or arrange consultation rooms in Putney, London and in Eastbourne, SE England.
Cost depends on session length and room booking/travel costs: We are based in the SE England. Please email us for a quote, stating your location and usual time availability.
Group Workshops: Online only
Only 5 people maximum per group.
Group Workshop: 6 x 1hr sessions @ £200.
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Group Workshop: 6 x 1hr sessions @ £200.
This series of workshops aim to help you:
- Feel positive and in control of managing your recovery.
- Return to life as best you can, with more hope for an injury/pain-reduced future.
The workshops include information, discussion, and guided exercises to help you:
- Understand how and why the brain and body work together to hinder or help healing, and to increase or reduce pain.
- To uncover the many, varied (and often, hidden) factors that affect your own recovery/pain.
- Make informed decisions and to plan your recovery.
- Challenge unhelpful beliefs and fears: Increase helpful, positive beliefs, thoughts and emotions.
- Increase your activity levels safely and successfully.
- Cope with set-backs and flare-ups.
- With practical tips and tools for effective recovery.
Sessions to be held fortnightly: Fridays 12 noon – 1pm & Sundays 10 – 11am.
Please ‘Register Your Interest’, giving a brief overview of your injury/pain and stating the time slots you can attend.
Everyone’s experience of injury and pain is very unique. So I work hard to understand your injury and pain, and work with you to make sense of its causes and to find the solutions that will work best for you.
I have enjoyed working as a psychology lecturer, researcher and consultant for 25 years. I’m a British Psychological Society (BPS) Practitioner Psychologist (Sport & Exercise Psychology) with HCPC practitioner registration. My PhD was in behaviour change psychology.
My interest in injury psychology started early in my career whilst working with athletes (professional/international to recreational). I decided to pursue this as a focus within my support work after experiencing back pain and realising how injury had affected my own life, life path and activity choices.
I’m excited that the latest pain science gives a new and real opportunity to understand injury, pain and recovery, and to use psychology to make a real difference: I know how important it is for you to recover effectively.
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