Chronic Pain
Exercise Physiology
When pain overstays its welcome
Persistent pain disrupts sleep, dampens mood and shrinks your world. Our Exercise Physiologists take a modern approach to it, one that goes further than rest and a printed sheet of exercises. We combine graded movement with pain science education so you can retrain your body and rebuild your life.
Why persistent pain is its own condition
Chronic pain is not simply acute pain that lasted longer. When pain persists, the nervous system can become sensitised and keep firing pain signals after the original injury has healed. Understanding that changes what treatment should look like. Ours has three parts: education about what is happening in your body, graded exercise that builds tolerance without triggering a flare, and practical strategies for pacing, managing your activity, and getting through the harder days.
A first session built on listening
We want your pain history, what makes it better or worse, what you have already tried, and what you want to get back to doing. Physical assessment is gentle and you set the limits. Sessions are individual and usually weekly, with simple movement practices to try at home. Our North Rocks and Five Dock clinics are quiet, private spaces.
Conditions we work with
We support people with persistent low back pain, fibromyalgia, complex regional pain syndrome, chronic neck and shoulder pain, osteoarthritis related pain, and persistent post surgical pain. Each program is individual.
Common Questions
Generic programs often push too hard too fast. Ours is paced to your nervous system’s tolerance, working below your pain threshold and building gradually. The aim is to expand what your body can do comfortably.
For some people, yes. For others the goal is meaningful improvement in function: sleeping better, playing with the grandkids, getting through a workday. We focus on what you can do.
Programs that pair well
