Chronic pain persists not because tissues are damaged but because your nervous system keeps creating protection. We identify the neurological signals driving your pain and reset them.
Specialist chronic pain treatment using Functional Neurology and P-DTR. Based in Shiremoor, Newcastle.
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Chronic pain is typically defined as pain lasting more than three months, but the duration itself is not the problem. What matters is why the pain continues.
Most tissue injuries heal substantially within weeks to months. Muscle tears repair. Ligaments regenerate. Inflammation resolves. Even disc injuries and cartilage damage reach a stable state where no active damage is occurring. Yet pain continues.
This happens because pain is not a direct readout of tissue damage. Pain is created by your brain when it perceives that protection is needed. Your brain makes this decision based on the information it receives from receptors throughout your body, combined with memories, expectations and context.
When you originally injured yourself, your brain received signals suggesting threat. It created pain to make you careful, to limit use of the area, to promote healing. This was appropriate and protective.
The problem is that the receptors in the injured area can continue to malfunction after the tissue heals. Scarring, inflammation and tissue remodelling change how receptors function. They may send unclear signals, excessive signals or signals that your brain interprets as threatening even though no actual threat exists.
Your brain continues to receive these signals and continues to create pain. Time passes. Months become years. You try treatment after treatment, but nothing produces lasting change because nothing addresses the faulty receptor signalling.
This is why chronic pain often does not correlate with what scans show. Some people have significant tissue changes with no pain. Some people have severe pain with normal scans. The difference is not in the tissues. It is in how the nervous system is processing information.
Most chronic pain treatment falls into several categories, none of which address the neurological cause.
Pain Medication:
Medication blocks pain signals or reduces inflammation. This can provide relief but does not change the underlying dysfunction. When medication wears off, the pain returns because the receptors are still sending faulty signals.
Manual Therapy:
Massage, manipulation, mobilisation and similar approaches work on the tissues in and around the painful area. They can provide temporary relief by providing input that briefly overrides the dysfunction. But the underlying neurological pattern remains unchanged.
Injections:
Cortisone, anaesthetic and other injections deliver drugs directly to the painful area. Like medication, they can provide temporary relief but do not change the receptor dysfunction that is driving the pain.
Exercise Therapy:
Strengthening and stretching can be helpful, but when your brain does not trust an area, it resists the movements you are trying to improve. Exercise in the presence of ongoing neurological dysfunction often produces frustration rather than progress.
Psychology-Based Approaches:
Cognitive and behavioural approaches can help with how you relate to pain and reduce the impact on your life. But they do not address the receptor dysfunction that is creating the pain signal in the first place.
The pattern with chronic pain treatment is often: temporary improvement, gradual return of symptoms, try something else, temporary improvement, gradual return. The underlying problem is never identified, so the symptoms never truly resolve.
We start from the understanding that your chronic pain is real, is being created by your brain and is being driven by signals from receptors that are not functioning correctly. The question is which receptors and where.
We conduct comprehensive neurological testing to identify dysfunction throughout your body. We do not assume the problem is in the painful area. Chronic pain often has drivers distant from where you feel it. An old ankle injury. Visual dysfunction. Vestibular problems. Scars from surgery years ago. These can all create signals that maintain chronic pain.
When we find receptor dysfunction, we identify exactly which receptors are involved and reset them using P-DTR techniques. We prove every change with immediate retesting. You feel the difference before you leave.
Because chronic pain often has multiple layers, complex cases require systematic work through the various contributing factors. But even in complex cases, we expect to produce measurable change at each session.
Chronic pain presents in many ways, and understanding your pattern helps identify what is driving it.
Constant Pain:
Pain that is always present at some level, sometimes worse but never gone. This often indicates receptor dysfunction that is continuously sending signals your brain interprets as threatening.
Fluctuating Pain:
Pain that varies significantly, sometimes severe and sometimes mild or absent. This often reflects how other factors are influencing the underlying dysfunction. Stress, sleep, activity levels and many other variables can modulate chronic pain.
Pain That Moves:
Pain that shifts location, sometimes affecting one area and sometimes another. This can indicate that your brain is responding to multiple sources of dysfunction, with the most prominent one dominating at any given time.
Spreading Pain:
Pain that has expanded from its original location to involve larger areas. This often involves central sensitisation, where your nervous system has become more reactive overall. But specific receptor dysfunction is usually still identifiable.
Triggered Pain:
Pain that flares in response to specific activities, postures or situations. Understanding the triggers helps identify which receptor systems are involved.
Whatever your pattern, we test systematically to identify what is driving it.
If this describes you, your chronic pain is likely driven by neurological dysfunction that has never been identified or addressed. This is exactly what we test for.
A precise approach that identifies and resolves the neurological drivers of chronic pain.
We test receptor function throughout your body, not just in the painful area. Chronic pain often has drivers distant from the symptoms. We identify exactly which receptors are sending signals that maintain your pain.
Using P-DTR techniques, we reset the faulty receptors. Complex chronic pain often has multiple layers. We work through them systematically, producing measurable change at each session.
We prove every correction with immediate retesting. You feel pain reduce, movement improve and function return. This is not hope. It is objective verification that the neurological driver has changed.
Result:
Many people with chronic pain that has lasted years experience significant improvement because the neurological cause has finally been addressed.
Many people with chronic pain feel significant change in the first session. This does not necessarily mean the pain is completely gone, but it demonstrates that change is possible and that we have identified contributing factors.
Simple cases may resolve in one to three sessions. A single neurological driver that has been missed by previous treatment can be identified and corrected quickly.
Complex cases with multiple layers take longer. If you have had pain for years, there are usually multiple factors to address. We work through them systematically with measurable progress at each session.
We give you an honest assessment of what we find and what the realistic path forward looks like. We do not promise instant cures for complex chronic pain, but we do expect to produce demonstrable change if the problem is neurological in origin.
“After fifteen years of chronic back pain and countless treatments, Sam found the neurological cause and resolved it. I still cannot quite believe it.”
— Client, Newcastle
“I had accepted that chronic pain was my life now. Sam showed me it did not have to be. The change has been remarkable.”
— Client, North Tyneside
“Everyone else focused on where it hurt. Sam tested my whole nervous system and found the actual cause. That made all the difference.”
— Client, Whitley Bay
If you have lived with chronic pain and nothing has produced lasting change, the problem is likely in how your nervous system is processing information. We identify the neurological drivers and address them directly. Book a free taster session and find out whether this approach is right for your situation. Based in Shiremoor, Newcastle. Serving North Tyneside and surrounding areas. Sessions available this week. Free parking on site.
