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01/06/2026

My June newsletter:
Have you heard of the Saturday Walker’s Club? It’s a really useful website with over 400 public transport friendly walks, with directions, maps, and GPS data. My husband and I followed their instructions for a Wanborough to Godalming walk and only got (slightly) lost once. As you can see, this photo was taken before the heat wave. Happily, it looks like the extreme heat has passed now and we can look forward to better sleep, cooler public transport and happier interactions with everyone - for the next few weeks at least. This month I’ve been reading some interesting research on pain science, anti adhesives, exercise chunking and more. I hope you find these articles as interesting as I do. 😊

21/05/2026

Latest blog post

Pain is the product of interactions between sensory signalling, emotional input, cognitive appraisal, and body representation. Chronic pain is a dysfunction in these neural pathways. What if these pathways could be repaired by a system that uses these routes too?

01/05/2026

Putting my masters in pain management to use - for my headache 🤕

29/04/2026

Back pain sometimes requires more than strength training and massage. Vision drills, fibre, breath work, good sleep, stress management- they factor in too.
Here’s a blog post that elaborates 👇

Back pain is exacerbated by dysfunctional vision, poor sleep, gut dysbiosis, incorrect breathing, and stress.

01/04/2026

April newsletter 💚

I love this time of year. Winter has buzzed off and new growth is here. The flip side to the longer days and beautiful blossoms is the sleep disruption from the time change and the increased immune activation from hay fever. ♀️ Don’t be surprised if you get a pain flare in the next few weeks. ...

10/03/2026

https://www.painpro.co.uk/single-post/migraine-medication-guidance-just-published

A review of migraine treatment published in the Lancet is both comprehensive and helpful.

07/03/2026

My general approach to exercise programming # backpain

01/03/2026

March newsletter - a blog post about the body creating pain in response to unconscious thoughts. Interesting papers on faecal transplants in cancer treatment; a new pain classification; red light therapy in college football; exercise extending life; and the effects of a two day oatmeal diet.

Happy Chinese New Year! I asked some Brownies last week what horses represented for them, and apart from the short conversation about their poo, they were excited about how fast horses run and how strong they are. We decided that this was a year to be healthy and strong and full of energy. This past...

12/02/2026

My latest blog explains why mindfulness and meditation don't really help with pain relief. We are complicated, pain is complicated. Unmet needs create threat beliefs. Pain is one of many maladaptive coping mechanisms that arise in response. Pain also creates threat beliefs and generates other maladaptive coping mechanisms. It's a cycle. 🤯

Our body detects violations of our needs in many ways. If our response to a violation is great enough then our brain stem will initiate one of two protection responses - create pain or exhibit a coping mechanism. Sometimes the coping mechanism triggers pain. Sometimes the coping mechanism is in resp...

01/02/2026