Around one in seven people suffer from chronic pain in the UK . That’s almost 10 million people and around 20% of us have suffered for more than 20 years. Chronic pain is any persistent or recurrent pain where the pain signals keep firing in the nervous system for weeks, months, even years. There may have been an initial mishap -- sprained back, serious infection, or there may be an on-going cause of pain -- arthritis, cancer, ear infection, but some people suffer chronic pain due to other conditions such as chronic fatigue syndrome, endometriosis, fibromyalgia, inflammatory bowel disease. Chronic pain can affect everyone, but sufferers are mainly elderly.

Two- thirds of chronic pain suffers report inadequate pain control and most people are not able to get to see a pain specialist on the NHS.  The British Pain Society offer some useful publications on how to manage your pain, and there is a growing recognition that alternative therapies such as acupuncture and body manipulation can be part of an effective pain management plan.

Vitality + therapists' are offering a Pain Clinic to support and help sufferers of this debilitating condition. The Clinic will run every Friday afternoon. You can drop in any time between 1.00 pm - 4.00 pm, and following a short initial consultation you will be offered the choice of acupuncture, massage therapy, physio or herbal medicine from one of our fully qualified and experienced therapists.  Each treatment will take between 30 and 60 minutes depending on your condition and needs and will be carried out in one of our two comfortable therapy rooms.

The cost of the treatment is the same regardless of which you choose and costs £20 or £15 for OAPs. So if you suffer from re-current or persistent pain, don’t put up with it longer than you have to.