Chronic Pain
Get to the root of chronic pain
Persistent back, neck, hip, or knee pain — and injuries that keep coming back — are usually a signal, not a mystery. Functional Patterns works the movement patterns driving your pain, so you can stop chasing symptoms and change what's actually causing them.
Sound familiar?
Chronic pain rarely stays in one place or responds to quick fixes. People often come to me with some mix of these:
- Nagging low back, neck, hip, or knee pain that won't fully settle
- The same "tweak" or injury that keeps coming back
- Pain that moves around or flares without an obvious cause
- Relief from massage, rest, or PT that never quite lasts
- Stiffness and ache that builds through a day of sitting
- Scans and tests that came back "normal" — but you still hurt
Why the pain keeps coming back
Pain is often felt in one place but driven from another. The spot that hurts is usually where the strain lands — not where it starts. When the way you walk, stand, and breathe loads your body unevenly, some tissues end up overworked day after day. Eventually they complain.
That's why treating only the painful area so often gives temporary relief: it calms the symptom without changing the pattern feeding it. Rest, stretch, or release the area and it feels better — until normal life loads it the same way again.
Functional Patterns takes the opposite route. By assessing your whole moving body and retraining gait, posture, and breathing from the ground up, the goal is to spread load the way your body was built to handle it — so the tissues that keep flaring finally get a break.
See your doctor first for red flags. Sudden, severe, or worsening pain, numbness, or pain following trauma needs medical assessment. Biomechanics coaching supports and complements your medical care — it isn't a diagnosis or a replacement for it.
How we'll work on it
Every plan is individual, but chronic-pain coaching generally moves through four stages:
Assess the whole picture
A thorough postural and gait analysis, plus your pain history and goals, to find the movement patterns loading the painful areas.
Release & calm
Targeted myofascial release and breathing work to settle overworked tissue and give better movement a chance to happen.
Retrain the pattern
Rebuild standing, walking, and rotational mechanics so load is shared evenly — the change that actually takes pressure off the painful spot.
Build resilience
Progress toward stronger, more integrated movement, with simple homework so the relief holds up to real life.
Functional Patterns is used worldwide for exactly these stubborn, whole-body cases — see @fp.evidence on Instagram, and my own before-and-afters after resolving years of back, ankle, and knee pain.
Ready to stop chasing the pain?
Book an initial consultation for a full assessment and a clear, personalised plan to address your pain at its source — or reach out first with questions.
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