09/12/2025
PAIN FEELS WORSE WHEN YOUR BODY ISN’T RECOVERING — AND YES, WE SEE IT EVERY DAY.
Here’s the truth ↓
If you walk into clinic with poor sleep, high stress, inflammation, or under-recovery, the SAME heel pain can feel two to three times more intense.
This isn’t in your head — it’s physiology.
📚 Research shows:
• Missing sleep increases pain sensitivity by ~30%
• Your brain’s pain-buffering system shuts down when tired
• Inflammation rises → tissues become more reactive
• The same pressure, load, or treatment feels completely different when your system is overwhelmed
This is why some days your heel pain barely bothers you…and other days you’re limping by lunchtime. Pain isn’t only about the foot.
It’s about the system the foot lives in.
💥 Poor sleep
💥 High cortisol
💥 Under-recovery
💥 Overtraining
💥 Hormonal shifts
💥 Gut inflammation
…all change how loud pain feels in the brain.
your treatment isn’t “just the foot.”
We look at the whole landscape your pain lives in — sleep, stress, load, recovery, fascia, biomechanics, hormones, and your daily behaviours.
Because when we target the ROOTS, your symptoms finally have space to calm.
✨ If you want a treatment plan that actually works with your body (not against it)…
DM PAIN and we’ll book you into clinic.