PAIN NEUROSCIENCE EDUCATION (PNE) PROGRAM

What is PNE?

An educational program formed to help you reduce your pain and disability by learning how your brain and nervous system create pain in your body. Our program will use educational tools so that you understand the complex nature of pain and the role the brain and neurological system play in long-term pain conditions. We also provide you with real-life tools and techniques that you can do daily to manage your pain. Over time, we will help you improve your functional ability, improve your tolerance to movement and daily activities and lower your pain level. 

PNE has been shown to:

  • Decrease pain
  • Decrease disability
  • Improve mobility and function
  • Improve tolerance to rehabilitation
  • Improve your understanding of pain
  • Decrease sensitization of the nervous system


How do we teach it?

  • One-on-one education
  • Prepared pictures
  • Metaphors
  • Hand drawings
  • Workbook with readings
  • Q&A
  • Online videos

Interventions provided:

  • Sleep hygiene
  • Aerobic exercises
  • Creation of a formal walking program
  • Activity pacing schedule
  • Breathing/relaxation
  • Meditation
  • Coping skills
  • Social interaction
  • Gratitude
  • Journaling
  • Aquatic therapy 


Graded therapeutic exercise Is PNE for you?

  • Chronic and long-term pain (pain for longer than 6 months)
  • Widespread pain diagnoses including fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome
  • Frustration with multiple treatment failures
  • High level of fear surrounding pain and movement