Living with chronic pain isn't just unpleasant — it’s life-altering. Chronic pain weaves itself into the fabric of your life. It affects your hobbies, routines, relationships, and goals until everything feels knotted, tangled and unrecognisable.
Managing a life with pain also means managing the muddle of confusing, conflicting and often frustrating advice, theories and reassurances from friends, family, and even medical practitioners.
- "I had back pain once. It went away after a week."
- “You should try yoga, it’ll fix you.”
- "You look totally fine."
- "Why aren't you better yet?"
- "I had back pain once. It went away after a week."
Over time, it starts to feel safer to stop seeing friends and family, making everything harder as you isolate yourself from important social networks.
BOOST Health Labs is powered by people who have lived experience of pain and recovery. We know what it feels like to be isolated, disenfranchised and deeply frustrated by navigating the world in a body that hurts.
But we also know what it feels like to come out the other side, strong, safe and joyful. And we are here to help you regain control, step-by-step.
Pain, and recovery, are not one-size-fits-all.
We will support you on a recovery journey that reflects your life, capacity and needs. For some people, recovery will mean living pain free - the science tells us this is possible.
Reducing the amount of pain you experience is one aspect of recovery, but recovering from pain is not just about the pain. Even more important is minimising the impact of pain, building resilience and capacity to re-engage with the things that pain strips away: hobbies, work, relationships, sex, goals, future plans.
The BHL team is a great reflection of all of these recovery realities – you can read more about our stories on the About Us page. There are people on our team who have completely recovered from pain, and those who have not, yet have significantly reduced pain and its impact on our lives. Most importantly, even when pain happens, we are navigating pain successfully and living full, rich lives.
And you can too!
flip* is designed on the basis that your pain is as individual as you are, made to be responsive to your life and needs. It will help you go about your day-to-day with more control over your symptoms, your energy and your mood.
flip* supports you to build safety into your daily life, systematically reducing the impacts of pain on your life and helping you do more with less pain.
infinite game
Recovery is not finite. The purpose of the infinite game is to keep our deepest values in play. Striving towards health, safety, comfort and joy is the journey of a lifetime.
There are no winners and losers in recovery, only those of us who are walking the path. At BOOST Health Labs, we want to help you take that first step.