Norton Physiotherapy Centre

12/09/2025

🧠 Perfectionism can be motivating — but it can also keep pain alive.

When “good enough” never feels enough, the nervous system stays in high alert, creating tension and flare-ups.

This week’s blog explores how self-compassion, not self-criticism, can be the first step in recovery.

📖 Read here: https://www.thepainhabit.com/blog/perfectionism

29/08/2025

🧠 *Not all pain comes from the conscious mind.*

This week, Chapter 6 highlights how unconscious processes may shape persistent pain.

A helpful tool for explaining symptoms that don't fit the usual physical model.

🎥 Watch the chapter on YouTube this Friday.

28/08/2025

💬 How we respond to pain can say more than the pain itself.

In this week’s blog, I look at the patterns we fall into — from pushing through to shutting down — and how these habits can keep us stuck.

📖 Read here: https://www.thepainhabit.com/blog/burnitoff
🔍 Which patterns have you noticed in your own journey?

22/08/2025

💭 *Pain that flickers on and off might not be random.*

Chapter 5 explores pain inconsistency from a nervous system lens — not a structural one.

📺 Share with patients who struggle with fluctuating symptoms.

🎥 Watch the chapter on YouTube this Friday.

21/08/2025

💬 How we respond to pain can say more than the pain itself.

In this week’s blog, I look at the patterns we fall into — from pushing through to shutting down — and how these habits can keep us stuck.

📖 Read here: https://www.thepainhabit.com/blog/burnitoff

🔍 Which patterns have you noticed in your own journey?

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15/08/2025

💡 *What if pain has a memory?*

This week’s chapter explores how symptoms can be triggered by old emotional or sensory cues — not just tissue damage.

Many people with persistent pain are surprised to learn their nervous system can “remember” pain.

👀 Curious? Chapter 4 of *The Pain Habit* 🎥 Watch on YouTube this Friday.

14/08/2025

💭 Could pain return because of memory — not damage?

In this week’s Pain Habit chapter, we explore how pain can resurface when your nervous system is reminded of something familiar.;

This isn’t imagination. It’s a well-documented phenomenon called anniversary pain.
📖 Chapter 4 releases Friday.

04/08/2025

📅 Recurring pain at the same time each year?
This might not be a structural issue — it could be the nervous system’s memory of a past event.

In this short read, Drew Coverdale (Physiotherapist and Author of The Pain Habit) explains why anniversary pain is more common than you think — and what to do about it.

📚 Read it here:

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23/07/2025

Persistent pain is often misunderstood.
In Chapter 1 of The Pain Habit, I explain how persistent pain can become a learned response — even in the absence of injury or after one has healed.

This video introduces a clinically respectful, hope-filled framework for recovery.
🎧 Watch here:

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18/06/2025

Have you realised this yet that persistent pain is the result of unconscious habits?
No blame shame or guilt needed in considering this.
If someone feels triggered in any way from reading black ink on a page, then notice that emotion that makes you react with blame, defensiveness, or shutdown.
What that feels like and what appears for you, that’s the emotion attached to the pain and there’s habitual behaviour to it which drives the pain.
If you’re in an empty room feeling and reacting to ‘danger’, when there patently isn’t any, that’s on you.
Now this can feel confronting and I have absolute love and compassion for you because all humans have these issues, and they’re challenging to work through.
We all have the opportunity to move through these difficulties. Sometimes alone but sometimes we need support from others.
Decide what support you need and access it, and make the moves through the pain.
Who could be blamed for something they are unconscious of doing? No one.
There is however an opportunity for responsibility, powerfulness and agency to appear.
And therein lies the opportunity to heal from persistent pain.
It’s possible.
Simple but not easy.

10/06/2025

A free event for those curious to learn more about recovery from persistent pain.

Register for the Quality Assurance program to access valuable resources, enhance your knowledge, and improve treatment strategies for neuroplastic symptoms.

14/05/2025

This wonderful group comprises compassionate professionals with science-supported skill sets, who provide education, advice, and support for recovery from persistent pain.