Chronic and persistent pain · Epping
Chronic and persistent pain management in Epping.
Pain that has lasted months or years, moved around, or never matched the scans. Understanding how pain works, and rebuilding capacity at a pace your system tolerates, changes lives. Accredited Exercise Physiologists working alongside your GP and pain team.
Unit 11, 58 Willandra Drive, Epping. Free parking. Mon to Fri 9am to 7pm.
Sound familiar?
How chronic and persistent pain usually shows up.
If a few of these ring true, you are in the right place. None of them mean something is badly wrong, and all of them respond to the right plan.
- Pain for more than three months that has not followed the expected script
- Good days followed by flare ups that knock you back for a week
- Scans and specialists have not given you an answer
- You have stopped work, sport or social things because of pain
- Medication helps a bit and you would like to rely on it less
- You have been told it is 'all in your head' and it is definitely not
Why it happens
What is usually going on.
Persistent pain is real, and it is different from the pain of a fresh injury. After months of pain the nervous system becomes protective: it turns the volume up, spreads the area and reacts to smaller triggers. Tissues have usually healed. The pain system has not settled. This is not imagined, and it is not weakness.
The most effective treatments teach you how your pain system works and rebuild what you can do in a graded way, so the system learns that movement is safe. Exercise physiologists are trained in exactly this: pacing, graded exposure and strength that respects flares while steadily expanding your world.
What we do
Assess, plan, retest. Numbers, not guesswork.
Every plan at Integral Movement starts with measurement on our force plates and strength testing, ends with a written program, and is retested at six weeks. One clinician, start to finish.
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Understand
A long first appointment. Your story, what has been tried, what flares and eases, and an explanation of how persistent pain works that finally makes sense.
02
Pace and build
A graded program that starts well within your tolerance and grows steadily. Flare plans so a bad week is a blip, not a restart. Sleep, stress and activity planning are part of it.
03
Reclaim
Measured progress toward the things you have lost: work, walking, sport, family life. Coordinated with your GP, psychologist or pain clinic as needed.
What the research says
Evidence, in plain English.
We read the research so you do not have to. These are the findings that shape how we treat chronic and persistent pain. Ask us for the papers at your visit.
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Pain science education combined with graded exercise reduces pain and disability in chronic low back pain and other persistent pain conditions more than exercise alone in randomised trials.
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Australian and international guidelines recommend active, self management based care for chronic pain, with exercise as a core component, and a reduced role for long term opioids.
03
Physical activity and exercise improve function and quality of life in chronic pain with a low risk of harm (Cochrane overview).
Who you will see
Accredited Exercise Physiologists, not a rotating roster.
You see the same clinician start to finish. Brad Buisson and Dennis Belios lead the musculoskeletal and chronic condition work, with our dietitian and occupational therapist in the same clinic when the plan needs them. Meet the team →
Funding
Medicare care plans, NDIS, DVA, WorkCover, TAC.
With a GP Chronic Disease Management plan Medicare rebates up to five allied health visits a year. We are a registered NDIS provider and bill DVA, WorkCover and TAC directly for accepted claims. Not sure what applies? Call and we will work it out.
Epping and Melbourne's north
Chronic and persistent pain help close to home.
Integral Movement is at Unit 11, 58 Willandra Drive, Epping, between Cooper Street and Edgars Road near the Northern Hospital, with free parking at the door. We see people with chronic and persistent pain from Epping, South Morang, Mill Park, Wollert, Mernda, Lalor, Thomastown and across the City of Whittlesea. Home visits are available for NDIS, My Aged Care and DVA clients.
FAQ
Questions about chronic and persistent pain
Will exercise make my pain worse?
A carefully graded program starting well within your tolerance should not. Flare ups still happen and we plan for them so they do not derail you.
Do you work with pain clinics and psychologists?
Yes. Persistent pain is best treated as a team. We coordinate with your GP, psychologist and pain specialist.
Can I use Medicare?
Yes, with a GP Chronic Disease Management plan. NDIS, DVA, WorkCover and TAC also fund exercise physiology for chronic pain.
How long does it take?
Change is measured in months, not weeks, and it compounds. Most people notice their world getting bigger within the first six to eight weeks.
Is this fibromyalgia friendly?
Yes. Graded, low starting dose exercise is one of the best supported treatments for fibromyalgia.
Ready to get it sorted?
Unit 11, 58 Willandra Drive
Epping VIC 3076
ABN 73 674 529 241
Epping VIC 3076
ABN 73 674 529 241