Chronic Pain
Chronic Pain
Living with pain that persists beyond normal healing time is exhausting and isolating. We approach chronic pain through the biopsychosocial model, addressing the physical, neurological, and lifestyle factors that may contribute to persistent pain.
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Chronic pain is complex. Our assessment looks at the full picture, not just the site of pain, to build a management plan that actually works.
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Understanding Chronic Pain & Its Drivers
Central Sensitisation
The nervous system can become more sensitive over time, amplifying pain responses even when tissues have healed or when there is no ongoing tissue damage.
Deconditioning
Reducing or avoiding movement because of pain can lead to loss of strength, reduced mobility, and lower physical capacity, which may contribute to an ongoing pain cycle.
Sleep Disruption
Poor sleep can increase pain sensitivity and affect recovery, creating a cycle in which pain and sleep difficulties reinforce one another.
Psychosocial Factors
Stress, mood, fear of movement, and other life factors can influence how pain is experienced and managed. Understanding these factors can form an important part of a comprehensive approach to persistent pain.
Inflammatory Conditions
Underlying conditions such as fibromyalgia, arthritis, or autoimmune diseases contribute to ongoing pain and require an integrated management approach.
Untreated Prior Injuries
Incompletely rehabilitated injuries can leave persistent movement dysfunction and local sensitisation that evolves into chronic pain over time.
How we treat it
The KINETIKA Approach
We assess the physical drivers alongside sleep, stress, activity patterns and pain history, because persistent pain is rarely explained by tissue alone.
Understanding why pain persists changes how the nervous system responds to it. This is part of the treatment, not a preamble to it.
Carefully paced activity that rebuilds your capacity without triggering flare-ups, so you can do more of what matters week by week.
Flare-up strategies, sleep and stress work, and a plan you can run yourself, with reviews as your capacity grows.
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Tell us where you're feeling pain. We'll assess your movement, understand what may be contributing to it, and build a treatment plan around your needs.
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Medically reviewed by the Kinetika Clinical Team · Last reviewed 2 October 2026