CHANGE YOUR
PAIN

Once you understand pain, you can begin to make plans, explore different ways to move, improve your fitness, eat better, sleep better and do more. We work with people with chronic back pain to take back control and be their own back hero.

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Pain & Movement Therapist

Welcome to our BACK HERO website.

Karen Ingram is a pain and movement therapist working with people to recover from chronic pain and to enjoy life again. Combining Movement, Education and Coaching to get you strong, understanding your body and feeling supported.

We use a range of tools to create bespoke programmes.

From group pain education, individual coaching, graded movement programmes, private reformer Pilates, Nordic Walking. Delivered in person from our base in Llantwit Major, and on-line.

**The Hero Shrew lives in the Congo and has the strongest spine in the animal kingdom. Human spines are strong too so we named our back pain programme after this amazing little creature.

MAP YOUR JOURNEY TOWARDS BEING PAIN FREE

Research clearly shows that learning about pain can help you. Take back some control and be your own back hero:

HELP

help yourself, don’t be reliant on. health professionals and others to determine the outcome of your back pain, design your own ‘active treatment strategy
EDUCATE

learn as much as you possibly can about the biology of pain and your body. Challenge your thoughts and beliefs. Learn facts!. Knowledge is the greatest pain liberator of all.
RE-WIRE

re-wire your brain - we are amazing bioplastic beings. You can retrain your brain to trigger pain less and respond better to “ignition cues”.
Change your MINDSET
OUTWARD

turn your attention to outside of your body and away from just “issues with the tissues’. Recognise external threats, like daily stressors or an imbalance life. Get MOVING! Enjoy the world about you and MAP ou your path to a pain free life.