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Why Your Pain Doesn’t Have
To Be Permanent?​

ONLINE SIRPA™ RECOVERY PROGRAM
At SIRPA, we integrate pain reprocessing and emotional awareness & expression approaches with other evidence-based therapies to address the biological, psychological, emotional and behavioural factors that cause chronic pain and other neuroplastic symptoms to persist or recur 
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Why your pain/symptoms haven't improved yet
Understand
What's really causing your pain/symptoms to persist
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Simple, practical  strategies you can use straight away
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Find out what recovery can look and feel like

“After 10 years of living with chronic back pain, the SIRPA online recovery programme helped me understand my pain in a completely different way. It gave me hope and a sense of self-empowerment. For me, it was the beginning of a journey that ultimately led me out of chronic pain.”

Lindsay – chronic back pain

Does Daily Life Often Feel Like A Struggle?
Are you baffled by this?

You’ve tried numerous different therapies, and read many pain management & self-help books. Despite this, is painstill ruining your life?
Are you frustrated because you’ve seen many doctors and practitioners, yet no one can find a cause or solution for your pain?
You’ve been told that your tissues have healed yet your pain is very real.
Are you baffled by this?
If you’ve answered YES to any of these questions, then you are in the right place
And You’re Not Alone!
30% of the world’s population suffers from chronic pain.
That’s many millions!
What makes the SIRPA™ approach so powerful is that it helps you become self-empowered as you identify and address the underlying causes of your pain as well as the triggers that cause the pain to persist, increase or recur.
Learn the power of the body-mind connection to make a positive difference in your life!
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So how can the SIRPA™ approach help you?
Please note – although the emphasis of this programme is on chronic pain, it can also be used effectively to help with any neuroplastic symptom/condition where are any tissue-damaging condition has been ruled out. Other symptoms/conditions found to be helped by this approach include Long Covid, dizziness and fatigue conditions as well as other neuroplastic symptoms involving other systems in the body.
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Conventional approaches
  • The widespread belief in the medical community and the public is that pain is due to a physical cause, such as tissue damage
  • This means that the focus is on ‘pain management’ where only the symptoms are treated, resulting in superficial and often only temporary relief
  • The underlying causes are therefore not identified and addressed
  • The body is deconstructed into separate component parts and therefore the individual is not seen and treated as a whole
  • The focus is on ‘disease’, rather than wellness
The SIRPA™ approach
  • SIRPA™ identifies and addresses the underlying causes of your pain. Because how can you provide targeted treatment if you don’t identify and address the root cause?
  • When pain persists after tissues have healed, pain science shows that the pain is not linked to tissue damage
  • Research shows that while chronic pain is real, various non-physical factors play a role in causing pain to persist
  • SIRPA’s approach is focused on health and wellness, not on disease
  • Hear it from Physiotherapist Georgie Oldfield MCSP, a leading chronic pain specialist and the Founder of SIRPA™
PAY ATTENTION TO YOUR BODY
If You Listen To Your Body When It Whispers,
You Won’t Have To Hear It Scream
  • SIRPA™ identifies and addresses the underlying causes of your pain. Because how can you provide targeted treatment if you don’t identify and address the root cause?
  • When pain persists after tissues have healed, pain science shows that the pain is not linked to tissue damage
  • Research shows that while chronic pain is real, various non-physical factors play a role in causing pain to persist
  • SIRPA’s approach is focused on health and wellness, not on disease
  • Hear it from Physiotherapist Georgie Oldfield MCSP, a leading chronic pain specialist and the Founder of SIRPA™
So how can the SIRPA™ approach help you?
The SIRPA™ recovery programme uses up to date pain science in their education because evidence shows this plays an important role in a pain relief approach. SIRPA’s approach is based on the understanding that unexplained chronic pain is due to neural circuits that have become learned and sensitised. Therefore by using a mind-body approach the aim is to reprogramme these learned neural circuits, while also identifying and addressing the underlying causes of the pain. NB. SIRPA’s online recovery programme is available to purchasers from anywhere at any time and from a PC, Mac, phone or tablet. Access is available longterm and if the programme is moved to another platform, where possible, SIRPA will offer purchasers the opportunity to continue accessing the content via the new platform.
What Will You Learn?
The factors that pain science shows are involved in how and why pain becomes persistent, plus what you can do about them
How powerful your mind is & how to reprogramme your brain and overcome conditioned/learned responses
How to address any doubts and fears as you learn to calm your primal brain, therefore reducing the ‘fuel’ for your symptoms
How to develop a curiosity towards the sensations (emotional and physical) in your body as you reframe your understanding of the pain
How to become more emotionally aware as you address any doubts and fears plus reframe your understanding of the pain, addressing it through a lens of safety
To safely identify, acknowledge and express unresolved emotions linked to current and past events and how to deal with day to day triggers
How to reprogramme your brain with more healthy, supportive neural circuits and behaviours to more effectively deal with internal and external situations/stressors
How your personality traits, learned behaviours, self-limiting beliefs and self-talk can cause self-induced stress and how to modify these to cope better with life’s circumstances
How to live life with less resistance by dealing more effectively with challenges you face, therefore proactively preventing future problems
So how can the SIRPA™ approach help you?
  • Minimum of 25 hours to work through the resources, plus time to implement and reinforce your learning experientially
  • Videos by a number of SIRPA-trained practitioners providing their wide-ranging experience on different topics
  • Additional written, audio & video resources to help you as you progress on your journey
  • Self-assessment worksheets to help you gain an understanding of your current state of health & wellbeing
  • Recordings of visualisations and other strategies for experiential practise
  • Peer Support: A private forum where you can post questions to other students, with periodic check-ins by Georgie Oldfield MCSP and other SIRPA-trained practitioners
  • Access to Georgie Oldfield’s e-book: “Journaling for Health”
  • A regular newsletter sharing tips, advice and support for people
  • Treatments as they apply to your situation
  • Self-assessment worksheets to gain an understanding of your current state of health & wellbeing
  • Opportunity for 121 support where required
  • Reference list of studies, plus recommended books and resources for ongoing self-development
Need More Help?
For many, working on this programme by themselves is all they will require, but many more may benefit from additional support and guidance. If you feel you would benefit from 121 support while working through this programme, we can show you how you can connect with a SIRPA-trained practitioner, either face to face or online.
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 “Through my learning I discovered that my symptoms didn’t have to be a life sentence. The combination of science, compassion and practical tools that SIRPA provided in their online programme gave me hope when I needed it most and helped me move from surviving to thriving.”

Carole – chronic pain & fatigue

Inspiring Recovery Stories

Real people, real recovery. Discover how others have transformed their lives with SIRPA.

Kerry struggled with a variety of symptoms and saw a number of Specialists over the years, with little relief, until finally she came across the

Kerry

Anxiety, Eye problems, Insomnia, Migraines, Temperomandibular Joint Disorder, Tinnitus
Read Kerry's Story →

After 9 years of pelvic pain, fear of chronic embedded infection and a myriad of other symptoms, Cassie found healing in the mind body world

Cassie

Interstitial Cystitis, Pelvic Pain, Skin Condition, Tinnitus
Read Cassie's Story →

Paul developed back pain in July 2022 and an MRI scan showed two prolapsed discs. Soon after this he developed sciatica, a swollen lower leg

Paul T

Back Pain, Foot drop, Sciatica
Read Paul T's Story →

Paul struggled with chronic and often severe back pain for 9 years which was believed to be due to his diagnosis of Ankylosing Spondylitis. Despite

Paul

Ankylosing Spondylitis, Back Pain
Read Paul's Story →

After years of debilitating chronic symptoms and a series of diagnoses, including Functional Neurological Disorder, Central Sensitivity Syndrome (often associated with Fibromyalgia), Chronic Fatigue Syndrome,

Sara Varo

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Food intolerances, Functional Neurological Disorder, Headaches
Read Sara Varo's Story →

After the birth of her third child, Hermione endured four years of relentless, unexplained chronic pain that pushed her to the brink of suicide. Through

Hermione

Anxiety, Head Pain, Neck Pain, Videos
Read Hermione's Story →

Recovery can occur though when the underlying causes are acknowledged and dealt with – and the SIRPA programme provides the understanding and strategies required

Dale

Sciatica, Videos
Read Dale's Story →

Tony learned to calm his nervous system through visualisation, self‑compassion, and tools like pause–breathe–feel–reassure, gradually rebuilding trust in movement and celebrating small wins. With Lindsay’s

Tony

Degenerative Disc Disease, Disc Bulge Compression
Read Tony's Story →

‘Jane’ went from living with debilitating pelvic and lower‑back pain that controlled every part of her life to gradually reclaiming her freedom through the SIRPA/TMS

Jane Doe

Back Pain, Pelvic Pain
Read Jane Doe's Story →

Despite being at peak fitness, Hayley, an elite runner was suddenly struck by severe leg pain during a period of emotional turmoil, and when scans

Hayley – an elite runner

Leg pain
Read Hayley – an elite runner's Story →

After decades of worsening back pain, surgery, and a devastating sciatic collapse triggered by profound emotional stress, he discovered Dr Sarno’s work and realised his

Alon

Back Pain, Sciatica
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After Covid triggered a severe decline that left Jay bedbound for eight months with Long Covid and CFS, he began a mind‑body approach that gradually

Jay

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Long Covid, Videos
Read Jay's Story →
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Breakdown of Course Content
  • Module 1: Let's get started
    This module is aimed at providing you with some of the basic understanding about the concepts related to chronic pain and other mindbody conditions and their treatment. As you start to go through these introductory lessons, interspersed amongst them are a number of helpful strategies. The idea for this is not only to help you learn some simple strategies from the start, but for you to also benefit from them if you find yourself becoming triggered at any point.
  • Module 2: Education and Understanding
    In this module we go into more depth about the factors involved in mindbody/psychophysiological disorders, to help you gain a broader understanding of potential predisposing factors, as well as factors involved in the triggering and perpetuation of the pain and/or symptoms.
  • Module 3 & 4: Creating a Solid Foundation
    Module 3&4 is when you can begin to set your intentions and learn some powerful strategies to help you on your journey. These are life skills, not just to help resolve symptoms. The more you can integrate and really utilise the understanding and strategies, the more you will see how these are just as powerful to use as preventative measures, as they are as part of a treatment plan.
  • Module 5: Self-Induced Stress
    Moving forwards, in this module we go into detail about how beliefs, judgements and personality traits, as well as fear and anxiety impact pain and other mindbody symptoms. By gaining a good understanding, you will then be able to individualise all this to address those factors relevant to you and your circumstances.
  • Module 6: Time to Reflect
    Continue to use those strategies you find most helpful, as you develop a sense of feeling safe in your body, through developing your ability to self-soothe and self-regulate. Once you trust in your ability to do that, without becoming overwhelmed when emotions start to surface or the pain/symptom increases, then this is the time to begin reflecting more deeply. This module will provide you with tools to guide you through that process.
  • Module 7: Deepening your Understanding
    This module encourages you to explore your life further and to consider how you can focus on things that make you let go, laugh, become self-empowered and basically live a more authentic life.
  • Module 8: Worksheets
    We’ve collated all of the strategies and worksheets which we reference throughout the training into one place to make it easy for you to dip back in and find what you’re looking for.
About The Instructor – Georgie Oldfield (MCSP)
Georgie Oldfield MCSP – physiotherapist and the SIRPA™ Founder – is the UK & European leader in this field of chronic pain treatment. In 2007, she learned from the American pioneer in this field, Dr. John E. Sarno (Prof of Medical Rehabilitation) which inspired her to create the SIRPA Online Chronic Pain Recovery Programme.

Since then, Georgie has: hosted two international conferences, been invited to speak at a number of conferences, run courses for NHS Trusts and private health professionals, written a book with 1,000s of copies sold and helped hundreds of people resolve their chronic pain in her own private practice.

In 2010 she also founded SIRPA™, a training organisation set up to teach and support other practitioners as they integrate this approach into their own work.

Real results from real people

 

“I had severe back pain and sciatica for about 6 months. I couldn’t sleep or work and was frightened all the time. I followed the programme and within weeks I was getting less pain. Within about 6 months I was pain free and have continued to be so. I was able to get back to all my normal activities and have started lots of new ones.”
Programme participant – back pain & sciatica

 

“I am now virtually pain free. It all clicked into place when I read the programme and I still read it. I am much more active now – I used to be unable to go outside.”
Hazel – back pain

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Frequently Asked Questions
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Prior to purchasing this programme it is important that you have seen a Doctor and had tests to rule out any more serious cause for your symptoms. Alternatively if your Doctor and/or Physiotherapist/Osteopath/Chiropractor has assessed you and they do not feel you require medical tests, then as long as you do not have a severe or unstable mental health condition, it should be safe for you to undertake this programme. If you would like further information about the concept on which SIRPA’s approach is based and our approach, you will find further information at www.sirpa.org