Our Practice Ethos is to empower our patients with the knowledge, skills and confidence to help themselves achieve their own potential.

By communicating with our patients in this way, we spark patient engagement in a way that facilitates self care that can bring out long term change in a person’s pain, condition and wellbeing.

Here are our top self care education suggestions for you to take a look at: 

1. Understanding Pain

2. The single most important thing you can do for your stress

3. Exercise is medicine: what is the single best thing we can do for our health?

4. How to make your day harder

5. Pain, is it all just in your mind?

6. Debunking the myth about the role of core stability in low back pain

7. Debunking the myth about the role of core stability in low back pain

https://blogs.bmj.com/bjsm/2012/10/06/exercise-as-a-medicine-for-both-health-professionals-and-patients/

8. Do you know the truth about your back:

https://healthskills4pain.wordpress.com/2014/05/26/sticky-back-beliefs/

9. The Drug Cabinet in our brain

10. Pain in a nutshell and how gradual exercise helps

https://www.painphysiotherapy.ca/pain-in-a-nutshell-and-how-gradual-exercise-helps-its-not-what-you-think/

11. Understanding persistent pain (a PDF guide)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3th9w6f4mhwg84a/PersistentPainBooklet.pdf

12. FREE mindfulness body scan MP3

https://painhealth.csse.uwa.edu.au/pain-management-mindfulness-and-pain.html

13. Evidence based website to keep you up to date with pain based education

https://www.pain-ed.com/

14. Another healthcare website designed to help people with musculoskeletal pain issues

https://painhealth.csse.uwa.edu.au/

15. Pain toolkit

https://www.paintoolkit.org/

16. Tendon Compression & Pain

17. Mindful Breathing: Through the eyes of children

18. Prescribing running shoes

19. Say goodbye to the excuses

Whether you’re too tired, too busy or you don’t know where to start, we’ve got tips for you to Tweak your Week and overcome any excuse.

https://www.makeyourdayharder.com/personas

20. 15 things you didn’t know about back pain:

https://www.independent.ie/life/health-wellbeing/15-things-you-didnt-know-about-back-pain-31367264.html

21. Controlling flare ups

https://knowpain.co.uk/resources-2/controlling-flare-ups-patient-handout/

22. What is pain and what is happening when we feel it?

https://theconversation.com/explainer-what-is-pain-and-what-is-happening-when-we-feel-it-49040

Our main clinic location is within David Lloyd Club in Thorpe Wood, Peterborough with a satellite clinic in Oundle School (students and staff only). Please contact us on 01733 565911 for more information on our clinic times & locations.