FND Treatment in Surrey Therapies
Train Your Brain To Change The Pain
What is Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) Symptoms?
Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) symptoms are when a person experiences real neurological symptoms, such as weakness, tremors, movement problems or seizures, but without visible structural damage or disease in the brain or nerves using current medical scanning devices. The brain is not damaged, but it is sending the wrong message, like a mobile phone app that has a glitch.
It is thought to affect about 0.1% of people, perhaps 100,000 people in the UK, but makes up 6% of neurology outpatient appointments.
Help For FND Treatment and Support
We provide advanced psychosomatic (physical conditions that are exacerbated by specific brain signals) therapies to help retrain your mind and body.
Our approach is bi-directional, helping change messages from the brain to the body and from the body to the brain.
Brain to Body: Your brain might be sending messages to your body that trigger physical symptoms. This often happens if you experienced a distressing or difficult event before the symptoms started. Your brain is sending a message that it is still trying to resolve a problem.
Body to Brain: Your body will be sending messages to your brain. We can help your brain to interpret them differently, to introduce more calm, and help you feel better.
Our approach is designed to work quickly.
Some people notice a difference after the first session, and we expect changes to happen within six sessions. Although, everyone is different and it will help some people more than others.
FND Treatment Therapy Sessions
What happens during our FND therapy sessions?
First, we’ll have a relaxed conversation about your condition, about how it feels for you, when the FND symptoms happen, when they first started, and what was happening around that time.
Then, if there was a preceding stressor, difficult life event or trauma, we can use some simple techniques to help reduce the emotional component of that event.
Next, we introduce some techniques to help retrain the deeper part of your brain, to help change the messages from your brain to your body, and to change your brain’s interpretation of signals from your body.
We will also provide you with powerful psychological tools to help calm the brain and ease the symptoms.
You will be fully conscious at all times and aware of what we’re doing. We don’t use or offer medication or surgery.
Many people are surprised at how quick and easy it can be, to learn to control pain.
FND Treatment Research
While medical research and medical treatment options are very limited, we have found some relevant papers that were published about psychosomatic treatments for trigeminal neuralgia.
Connors et al. (2024) did a systematic review of medical research into hypnotherapy (a focused state of relaxation) for FND, covering 35 studies over 1,584 patients. They found that 1,379 (87% of the patients) reported significant improvements, including many who became symptom-free in these short-term studies. This is hugely important information and demonstrates that therapies like this can help create significant improvements.
Given that FND impacts so many people each year, we are amazed that the medical community isn’t doing more research into the condition and potential treatments.
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We provide FND treatment in Surrey and online, using psychosomatic therapies.
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