People from all walks of life have discovered the life-changing benefits of self-managing pain effectively

Thank you so much! I have loved the daily help and advice the last few weeks. So amazing I was able to do this course at home. I honestly looked forward to receiving my emails for the next steps.All the super advice and exercises have given me confidence to keep going! Very pleased I now have a library of great advise and stretches and meditations. Thank you x

The course was enjoyable and easy to follow because each step was not too long. I've found most of the course content to be helpful and will continue with the stretches and mindfulness and relaxation techniques. Thank you.

The course really got me thinking about the psychological impact of pain. It thought me that we must think about the pain rationally and that it is important to be positive

Very good course worth taking to ease your pain burden.

The course was some times a bit confusing, but for the most part it was helpful.

If you have never done a pain management course please consider doing one. Any advice they give and support will help you however small to cope with pain and improve your overall well-being.

I feel the assessment and course are not specific enough to establish the support each person needs. Everyone is different and each patient has different capacity in what they are hoping to achieve.

Just don't Do not take this course if you have anything causing pain other than generalised back pain due to normal wear and tear. Some of the exercises suggested are likely to aggravate your pain if you have bulging discs in your back. If you have anything along the lines of Fibromyalgia again this course is not for you. If you have any level of Neurodivergence again this course is unlikely to help. With 20min "meditations" and what they call "passive relaxation" which requires a lot of focus and concentration. In my honest opinion it is anything but passive. I would also avoid this course if you have lived with Chronic pain...sorry "persistent pain" (cos chronic sounds scary...) for any length of time there is a high chance you will find this course patronising and triggering. I hope people do find this course useful but with only 24% of people sayin they experienced a reduction in the problems of daily life that means that 76% of participants experienced no improvement.

I found the course helpful but felt it didn’t reach or help how to improve the pain /ache in my neck and hands which is where it has an impact on my normal everyday life due to muscle and nerves and my sleep patterns HAVEN'T improved either.

This is an excellent course, which has really helped me on the road to managing my head pain. I would recommend it to anyone with chronic pain.

I found the course easy to do as it was broken down into short steps therefore I did not feel overwhelmed by it. It has also given me some confidence in managing my pain better and being able to do more of my interests.

It has helped to rethink the boom or bust way I usually manage my pain

This is my second time in completing the Pathway Through Pain Course. It was a few years ago that I first did this Course. I found it extremely beneficial and of great help. Unfortunately I did not download any course of mindfulness techniques to continue to refer to, especially on my bad days. Over the years I have fallen back into my old thought process of dealing with my pain. Where I have let my Pain issues take control of my day. Which in turn this caused me to become depressed and very irritable. A downward spiral. Pathway Through Pain sent me an email over the New Year. I have rejoined and completed the Course again. Finding ways to deal with my pain positively rather than negatively. I will continue to use my Coursework and especially the meditation techniques, aiming for my thought process to rethink the way I deal with my pain. I still have someway to go but the Pathway Through Pain seed has been set for me to use. My thinking has definitely changed and I will continue to work on it. An excellent Course.

You have been a great help to me for handling my pain.Thank you so much.

The pain management course has helped me to manage my pain better by using some of the suggestions alongside medication. Suggesting stretching and light exercise even when pain is bad. Use of heat pads and TENS machine really helps with pain. Useful to have all the resources in the library to be able to use when needed. I didnt find the guided meditation very helpful but thats probably due to my lack of concentration and inability to sit long enough to do it.

This is a very useful course for anyone suffering long-term chronic pain. I've suffered for decades and many of the suggestions in the course I've been using for that time and they have been effective

I have learned a few exercise and advice from you but unfortunately not helped at all. Thanks for your advice.

I have found the heavy focus on meditation within the course disturbing. Meditation is a religious practise and not something Christians can partake in. The suggestion of doing yoga is also a spiritual practise not compatible with Christian beliefs. I do not think it is acceptable to have any religious references within a NHS course as you are in danger of isolating a faith group. I understand that this course has been designed to assist people who have received proper investigations into their pain condition(s). This is not something I have received. This course has made me feel utterly hopeless, misunderstood and most importantly ‘dismissed’. Despite my contacting you last year to reiterate and confirm that you received the instruction to direct me to see a rheumatologist you have still not acted on this instruction. This entire course is patronising. All of this information is on YouTube…I know this because I’ve spent years watching videos to help me understand and deal with my pain.

I would never recommend using the pain Clinic or this course. Very little was done to help me. I was sent to the pain clinic at my worst time I had deep depression. And all the pain clinic did for me was take me off of all my medications to where I had side affect for 6 months. As well as trying to deal with deep depression due to my pain. I was then sent on this course that told me pain was in my head. And the way you deal with pain is to stop what you are doing and meditate. This did not work for me as I am not a monk who has had training to cope with pain since a child. In my opinion the ethos for the pain clinic management for pain is to save the NHS lots of money by taking people off costly pain medication and convincing them to meditate so their pain will disappear. This does not work if you go to A&E with a broken bone they don’t tell you to meditate they give you pain medication why are people in long term pain being treated differently. It’s the cost it must be.

I would like to thank everyone for the help and advice they have given me during the course it has been very helpful Thankyou