The Pain Physio - Specialists in Complex Pain

During my recent fibromyalgia flare up I found the help and expertise of Maxine invaluable and would highly recommend her service.

Fantastic tailored treatment, individual support and expert knowledge. I have been seeing Maxine for over 3 years. I highly recommend Maxine to anyone with Fibromyalgia or other chronic pain symptoms.

I first saw Maxine when I was in a pretty bad way - very stiff in my upper back and chest and having difficulties breathing. I have seen many practitioners before but the problems always came back. Nobody was able to identify the root cause which turned out to be nerve pain. Maxine spent a lot of time with me during the first few consultations explaining the impact the accident from 16 years ago and the deteriorating posture had on my current state of wellbeing . I've been working with her for about a year now and I am pleased to say that my symptoms have improved significantly and I only need to see her when I neglect my exercises. I also managed to get through it without taking any standard medication for nerve pain. Maxine has been a life saver and I can't be grateful enough for the change she has made to my quality of life.

I came to Maxine having been referred due to Fibromyalgia. I needed some hands on treatment to target areas of pain, but mostly guidance through a graded exercise programme to rebuild my strength after months of being able to do very little. Maxine has been great at helping me understand how the body works, why I have pain and tightness in certain areas and how exercise and treatment will begin to build my strength. She has always been supportive throughout my exercises, encouraging me to push myself but conscious and understanding of my limits. Thanks to 6 months Maxine’s expert care I have now returned to work, and am feeling better than I have in nearly a year. I can definitely recommend her if you are struggling with chronic pain.

Highly recommended, very professional!After 5 doctors, 2 hospitals nobody gave me a specific detailed diagnosis likeMaxine Rodriguez. She evaluated my body, she explained everything thoroughly.I am feeling much better every day with her assistance every week.It was an amazing experience.Thank you so much Maxine.

I have suffered for many years with lower back pain and sciatica. I have seen various professionals in the past, but the pain always came back. Maxine understood my problem from the start and clearly answered all my questions. After a few sessions the improvement was evident and with the recommended exercise program, the pain has not returned. I would definitely recommend Maxine to my friends and family !

I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia: I was a total wreck, physically and mentally before I met Maxine. Every move I made was painful and I was in pain 24/7/365. I had seen all the specialist and had all the tests: Ultrasounds, X-Rays, MRI’s, Nerve tests, Blood tests, etc. (all tests were normal). I paid for countless private treatments too but none of the medical professionals I saw had any idea what caused my pains. I was “a case” with medically unexplained symptoms.It all changed when I met Maxine: she is extremely knowledgeable about Fibromyalgia.Maxine has enabled me to understand Fibromyalgia clearly and she provided me with techniques and tips to effectively combat it.Maxine is truly remarkable, simply amazing! She is warm, empathetic, super friendly, very talented, caring, gentle, engaging, professional and extremely competent. Maxine has a lovely warm manner that I took to instantly, she never made me feel uncomfortable with her understanding attitude.She made time to listen to my problems, took notes and planned an appropriate recovery plan for me, that has worked wonders. Most importantly she informed me that Fibromyalgia CAN be cured and I believed that she could indeed help me whilst nobody else could. With her treatment plan I had a goal and a road map for my journey to recovery so I decided to see her several times to check my progress as I believed in her.She provided a perfect blend of information, education, practical tips, stretches and exercises with very clear explanations. She also made me understand what goes on in the brain and she thought me the Power of the Mind, which I realise now is utterly astonishing.I can never thank Maxine enough for the help she gave me and the positive effects she had on my mind and my life. I went from a total wreck to a happy, overall more positive, person and I AM TOTALLY PAIN FREE!Maxine’s treatment has worked beyond my wildest dreams and has changed my whole world.I can wholeheartedly recommend Maxine to anybody, without reservations.THANK YOU VERY MUCH MAXINE!

Maxine is an extraordinarily good physio therapist. She is very thorough both in assessment and also in subsequent treatment plans. It would probably not be preposterous to say that I have had some prior experience with health professionals, and Maxine is by far the best,-I come from Austria to see her.Due to having seen many physios, and none of them being able to understand what my problems were, I was apprehensive to try someone new again, but it was worth it. Within one hour Maxine had pinned down nearly all of the physical faculties of my chronic pain that had seemed ephemeral to me. She was able to communicate to me clearly what I had intuitively been feeling but could not convey effectively.For me, most importantly though, is that she treats her patients like equals (i.e. she does not belittle them or their own subjective experience of a condition, but rather makes the patient take responsibility, and facilitates them regaining autonomy over their own body) as well as the fact that she is an upbeat and positive person. As an added bonus for foreign patients, she also speaks Spanish, nearly an anomaly in the Anglican world!Highly recommend!

I highly recommend Maxine Rodriguez, The Pain Physio, for sufferers of chronic pain. In my case I have had fibromyalgia, and mechanical musculoskeletal pain for about 1.5 years. During the initial consultation we discussed the number of problems that I have. I felt that she was the most thorough of all clinicians that I'd seen up to that point; not only in her initial assessment but her explanations of the mechanisms behind my pain, and how to interpret pain signals. Patient education is a massive part of pain management, and is a major step in the self-management of pain by the sufferer, and this is where I felt Maxine excelled. Maxine equipped me with tools and coping strategies to self-manage pain, which is necessary for pain free daily function. Maxine is also very skilled manual therapist, and really helping me with my chronic neck pain. When I first saw Maxine I had incapacitating levels of pain, she was supportive of me every step of the way until my pain reduced significantly. I am now able to continue on my own, and we have reduced my fibromyalgia medication significantly. I have seen quite a few physiotherapists over the years, and frankly Maxine is in a class of her own; I cannot recommend her highly enough.