Prioritising the
Release of Pain
Thanks to advancements in pain neuroscience, we now understand that chronic pain is not always a sign of ongoing damage, but often a reflection of the brain’s protective systems working continuously to keep the individual safe.
Our approach builds on these insights, integrating subtle brain–body communication techniques to directly engage the automatic processes that often operate beyond conscious awareness. This harnesses the brain’s natural ability to re-evaluate and reset unnecessary protective responses, allowing individuals to move beyond the burden of pain management and support more effective recovery and rehabilitation once pain is no longer a limiting factor.
Supporting everyone touched by chronic pain.
Prioritising the Release of Pain
Chronic Pain Release Therapy, known worldwide as Steven Blake's OldPain2Go®, is an innovative, effective, and practical approach that helps individuals release long-term pain, predominantly within a single focused session.
Thanks to advancements in pain neuroscience, we now understand that chronic pain is not always a sign of ongoing damage, but often a reflection of the brain’s protective systems working continuously to keep the individual safe.
Our approach builds on these insights, integrating subtle brain–body communication techniques to directly engage the automatic processes that often operate beyond conscious awareness. This harnesses the brain’s natural ability to re-evaluate and reset unnecessary protective responses, allowing individuals to move beyond the burden of pain management and support more effective recovery and rehabilitation once pain is no longer a limiting factor.
Supporting everyone touched by chronic pain.
Prioritising the Release of Pain
Chronic Pain Release Therapy, known worldwide as Steven Blake's OldPain2Go®, is an innovative, effective, and practical approach that helps individuals release long-term pain, predominantly within a single focused session.
Thanks to advancements in pain neuroscience, we now understand that chronic pain is not always a sign of ongoing damage, but often a reflection of the brain’s protective systems working continuously to keep the individual safe.
Our approach builds on these insights, integrating subtle brain–body communication techniques to directly engage the automatic processes that often operate beyond conscious awareness. This harnesses the brain’s natural ability to re-evaluate and reset unnecessary protective responses, allowing individuals to move beyond the burden of pain management and support more effective recovery and rehabilitation once pain is no longer a limiting factor.
Supporting everyone touched by chronic pain.
Our intention is that by making the complexity of chronic pain understandable, sharing our innovative and logical perspective, and demonstrating the remarkable real-world results of our effective, direct approach, we offer more than understanding - we offer hope, clarity, and a practical pathway forward.
Affecting around 20% of the global population, chronic pain has reached epidemic levels… and science is revealing new hope.
Thankfully we are in the midst of a significant shift in pain science, reshaping how pain is understood, explained, and approached. This evolution offers long-awaited validation for those affected by chronic pain and, more importantly, opens meaningful pathways towards rapid recovery.
Thanks to advances in neuroscience, we now have a clearer understanding that pain is not simply a direct measure of injury, but the brain’s interpretation of signals it perceives as potentially harmful.
These signals arise from specialised sensory receptors within the body known as nociceptors, which detect the characteristics of potential damage, such as heat, pressure, or chemical changes.
Prioritising survival, the brain forms neural connections linked to potential harm, continuously updating its responses drawing on past experiences, emotional state, expectations, and environment (biopsychosocial influences).
This adaptive system allows the brain to anticipate threats and trigger protective responses early, prompting behaviours that minimise the risk of injury.
When pain persists, fluctuates, or recurs beyond the expected healing period of three months, continues despite diagnosis or treatment, or where no clear damage is present, this strongly suggests a shift in the underlying pain mechanisms. Pain that may have begun with tissue damage (nociceptive pain) or nerve injury (neuropathic pain) can become sustained by altered processing within the brain and central nervous system, known as nociplastic pain.
In this state, the brain’s protective systems may remain active, triggering bodily responses such as muscle guarding, inflammation, and changes in nerve sensitivity. This can cause harmless stimuli to be interpreted as threatening, maintaining a cycle in which the brain’s protective predictions and the body’s responses reinforce each other, blurring the line between cause and effect.
While this helps explain why an individual can experience very real pain long after an injury has healed, or even when no clear tissue or nerve damage is present, this feedback loop, combined with the overlapping and coexisting nature of these mechanisms, can make it difficult for both individuals and professionals to pinpoint exactly what is driving the pain, particularly since the person’s perception is the only reliable way to measure it.
When pain becomes chronic, it is essential to consider all contributing factors, particularly the brain’s protective processing, which can maintain, amplify, or even generate the pain experience.
Thanks to advances in neuroscience, we now have a clearer understanding that pain is not simply a direct measure of injury, but the brain’s interpretation of signals it perceives as potentially harmful.
These signals arise from specialised sensory receptors within the body known as nociceptors, which detect the characteristics of potential damage, such as heat, pressure, or chemical changes.
Prioritising survival, the brain forms neural connections linked to potential harm, continuously updating its responses drawing on past experiences, emotional state, expectations, and environment (biopsychosocial influences).
This adaptive system allows the brain to anticipate threats and trigger protective responses early, prompting behaviours that minimise the risk of injury.
When pain persists, fluctuates, or recurs beyond the expected healing period of three months, continues despite diagnosis or treatment, or where no clear damage is present, this strongly suggests a shift in the underlying pain mechanisms. Pain that may have begun with tissue damage (nociceptive pain) or nerve injury (neuropathic pain) can become sustained by altered processing within the brain and central nervous system, known as nociplastic pain.
In this state, the brain’s protective systems may remain active, triggering bodily responses such as muscle guarding, inflammation, and changes in nerve sensitivity. This can cause harmless stimuli to be interpreted as threatening, maintaining a cycle in which the brain’s protective predictions and the body’s responses reinforce each other, blurring the line between cause and effect.
While this helps explain why an individual can experience very real pain long after an injury has healed, or even when no clear tissue or nerve damage is present, this feedback loop, combined with the overlapping and coexisting nature of these mechanisms, can make it difficult for both individuals and professionals to pinpoint exactly what is driving the pain, particularly since the person’s perception is the only reliable way to measure it.
When pain becomes chronic, it is essential to consider all contributing factors, particularly the brain’s protective processing, which can maintain, amplify, or even generate the pain experience.
Our Innovative, Logical Perspective and Effective, Direct Practical Approach
These recent breakthroughs in pain science have helped people move beyond outdated beliefs, recognising that pain isn't simply something happening in the body, nor is it 'all in the head.'
Rather, pain is a real and meaningful protective alert generated by the brain, designed to be felt in the body and shaped by a complex interplay of biological, psychological, and social factors.
Many models describe chronic pain as maladaptive, oversensitive, or misfiring. While such descriptions are often well-intended and aim to explain the complexity of pain, when used without exploring the individual’s unique circumstances, they can unintentionally imply that something within them is malfunctioning. This can heighten the brain’s sense of threat, amplify the pain experience, lead to disregarding the pain’s message, and, perhaps more significantly, create the impression that recovery must be slow or out of reach.
We See Things Through A Different Lens
Our approach focuses on the brain’s protective role in chronic pain, recognising that once pain becomes chronic, it is not always a sign of ongoing damage. Instead, it often reflects the brain’s protective systems working continuously to keep the individual safe.
We believe that, from the brain's perspective, all pain serves a purpose: to signal that it still perceives a need for protection. What makes our approach unique is that we do not view chronic pain as a malfunction to be managed, but as a meaningful message to be Revealed, Resolved, Reset, and Released.
Our approach centres on helping the brain recognise when that level of protection is no longer required, allowing the body to heal and restore its natural balance. It is this insight that has been a turning point for many and forms a key foundation at the heart of our approach.
Reveal ~ Resolve ~ Reset
Our Highly Effective Three-Phase Process
By combining our innovative, logical perspective with subtle brain–body communication techniques that directly engage the automatic processes that often operate beyond conscious awareness, we help individuals understand why protection responses persist, and guide the brain to re-evaluate the level of threat in light of the current circumstances. This allows the system to complete its learning and stand down from unnecessary protection.
While approaches like education, movement, and desensitisation gradually support the brain’s ability to reorganise and form new neural connections (a process known as neuroplasticity), our method offers a more direct route. When we focus on prioritising the release of long-term pain, individuals are no longer held back by the constant effort of managing it. This lifts a significant barrier, allowing other recovery and rehabilitation strategies to work with greater ease, clarity, and effectiveness.
Just as pain can be triggered in an instant, it can also be released in an instant once the brain updates its perception through understanding and resolution.
By harnessing the brain’s natural capacity for re-evaluation in this way, we can help it update 'old' interpretations of harm, gently recalibrate predictive processing, and reset unnecessary protective responses - helping individuals achieve significant pain reduction, or complete release. This process is carefully designed to support lasting neuroplastic change by combining new insights, experiential shifts, and subtle neurological responses — all within a single, focused session.
OldPain2Go® is a gentle, collaborative process, not something done to you, but with you. You remain fully in control throughout. There’s no need to relive trauma, revisit physical events, or enter a trance state. It is this integration of science, logic, and human connection, delivered through a single-session focus, that underpins the consistent, transformative results reported by practitioners around the world.
Demonstrating Remarkable Results
Proven effective in real-world applications, fuelled by countless success stories, supported by university-led research, and further validated by an observational study of 207 individuals demonstrating a remarkable 76% efficacy* in completely releasing long-term pain within a single focused session.
Demonstrating Remarkable Results
Proven effective in real-world applications, fuelled by countless success stories, supported by university-led research, and further validated by an observational study of 207 individuals demonstrating a remarkable 76% efficacy* in completely releasing long-term pain within a single focused session.
Success Stories - Real People, Real Results
One of the most inspiring aspects of our work is sharing success stories from individuals and professionals around the world.
These real-world results highlight the remarkable outcomes that can emerge when science and practical application come together. They also serve as a beacon of hope for those living with chronic pain, offering relatable examples of people who have successfully released their pain and regained control of their lives.
"What began as my personal journey to overcome five decades of chronic pain has grown into something far bigger, a practical, compassionate approach now helping thousands of people worldwide break free from long-term pain."
"What began as my personal journey to overcome five decades of chronic pain has grown into something far bigger, a practical, compassionate approach now helping thousands of people worldwide break free from long-term pain."
Explore Steven's incredible journey of overcoming decades of chronic pain to creating an approach that is globally recognised to transforms lives. His story is one of curiosity, courage, and compassion, a reminder that progress begins with an open mind.
Steven encourages both individuals and practitioners to adopt a “give it a go” attitude. Even if it sounds almost too good to be true, the evidence continues to grow, demonstrating remarkable results of rapid recovery.
For practitioners, this is an invitation to stand at the forefront of an evolving field, one that aligns with emerging pain science and offers a practical approach to help others achieve lasting relief.
By remaining open, inquisitive, and willing to explore what’s possible, we can together reshape how the world understands and addresses long-term pain.
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'Rapid Recovery becomes possible when understanding meets the brain's own mechanisms for change'
Steven Blake MBA
Founder of OldPain2Go® Chronic Pain Release Therapy
By prioritising the release of pain rather than merely managing it, our practical, science-aligned approach offers both individuals affected by chronic pain and the professionals supporting them a powerful, non-invasive pathway that requires no physical manipulation, can be delivered in person or online, and enhances other recovery strategies to achieve faster, more effective results.
Living with persistent pain can feel overwhelming, exhausting, and lonely. Please know you are not alone. Understanding, support, and hope are here for you whenever you are ready.
If you are experiencing pain that persists, fluctuates, or recurs beyond three months, please know you are not alone, and there is hope.
You may wish to explore a session if you are experiencing pain that persists, fluctuates, or recurs beyond the expected healing period of three months, continues despite diagnosis or treatment, or exists even when no clear damage is present.
We understand you’ve likely invested significant time, energy, and resources in seeking relief, often with limited results. While no approach can guarantee outcomes for everyone, we warmly invite you to explore this practical, non-medical approach that is helping countless individuals worldwide release their pain.
Our training has reached over 1,800 practitioners across the world, including doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, psychologists, neurologists, pain researchers, hypnotherapists, NLP practitioners, and a broad range of wellbeing professionals
Our training has reached over 1,800 practitioners across the world, including doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, psychologists, neurologists, pain researchers, hypnotherapists, NLP practitioners, and a broad range of wellbeing professionals
Transforming the complexity of chronic pain into simple, practical skills, that can be seamlessly integrated.
Our online training is thoughtfully designed with you in mind, combining flexible, self-paced theory, available immediately, with live sessions focused on practical application held several times each month on both weekdays and weekends, and accessible across multiple time zones, helping you confidently apply your learning in a way that suits your preferred style.
We can offer a two-day in-person programme for those seeking a more immersive experience.
This means you can start learning at your own pace today, then book your live online session when you're ready, giving you the flexibility to become qualified in just weeks.
We are all on a journey to understand pain more deeply and to close the gap between emerging scientific insights and everyday practice.
We are all on a journey to understand pain more deeply and to close the gap between emerging scientific insights and everyday practice.
We are committed to continuous evolution and believe that collaboration is key to progress in this rapidly advancing field, an outlook reinforced by university-led research and a large-scale observational study, which highlight the broad applicability and transformative potential of our approach in addressing persistent pain.
Through collaborations with pain organisations, researchers, and scientific communities, we aim to deepen the understanding of pain release achieved through this innovative and effective method, ensuring that advancements in pain science translate into accessible solutions for those in need.
We're inspired by The Recent Advancements
Pictured: Creator and Director of OldPain2Go® Steven Blake, alongside Business Development Manager, Peter Dennis, at the 2024 IASP World Congress, which celebrated fifty years of progress in pain science.
We're inspired by The Recent Advancements
It is encouraging to see emerging insights recognised at the highest levels, from updated international definitions and new diagnostic classifications, to public education campaigns, and even parliamentary discussions on prevention and recovery.
We envision a future where research, collaboration, and innovative approaches like ours are fully embraced, ensuring every individual has access to effective care and compassionate guidance toward lasting relief.
We invite forward-thinking professionals to explore how this approach can compliment your practice, whether through research, training, referral pathways, or endorsement alongside medical and management-based options.
We invite forward-thinking professionals to explore how this approach can compliment your practice, whether through research, training, referral pathways, or endorsement alongside medical and management-based options.
Let’s work together to help people worldwide - bridging science, compassion, and real-world solutions.
Whether you’re affected by chronic pain and seeking personal relief, supporting others as a healthcare or wellbeing professional, or advancing research and innovation in pain science - we warmly invite you to explore a practical approach that is showing remarkable results in helping countless individuals worldwide release their pain.
Frequently Asked Questions
You may wish to explore a session if you are experiencing pain that persists, fluctuates, or recurs beyond the expected healing period of three months, continues despite diagnosis or treatment, or exists even when no clear damage is present.
Pain management, medication, and medical interventions often focus on controlling symptoms or addressing the immediate, foreground hurt. OldPain2Go® works differently, it directly engages the brain’s learned patterns and predictive mechanisms that often sustain chronic pain, addressing the root cause or background harm.
By combining a logical, science-informed perspective with subtle brain–body communication techniques, OldPain2Go® engages automatic processes that often operate beyond conscious awareness. This helps individuals understand why protective responses persist and guides the brain to re-evaluate the level of threat in light of current circumstances. In doing so, the nervous system can complete its learning and stand down from unnecessary protection, allowing long-term pain to be released safely.
Parts Therapy is a therapeutic approach that involves identifying and working with different ‘parts’ of a person’s psyche, often rooted in Internal Family Systems or similar models. It focuses on resolving conflicts or trauma by helping these parts work together more harmoniously. In contrast, OldPain2Go® focuses on retraining the brain’s perception of pain. Rather than exploring internal parts, it addresses the brain’s predictive mechanisms and learned patterns that maintain chronic pain. The goal is to help the brain recognise that the pain is no longer needed, allowing the nervous system to reset and release long-term pain, without necessarily delving into internal psychological parts.
Hypnotherapy typically involves guiding someone into a deeply relaxed state, often called a trance, to access the subconscious mind. In this state, the therapist may help the individual reframe or resolve issues, including pain, by suggesting positive changes or new perspectives.OldPain2Go®, however, does not rely on hypnosis in the traditional sense. It focuses on helping the brain recognise that the pain is no longer needed. The approach updates the brain’s predictive mechanisms and learned patterns, usually without entering a trance state.
OldPain2Go® is a gentle, collaborative process. Sessions are conducted with you, not to you, and you remain fully in control at all times. There’s no need to relive trauma, revisit physical events, or enter a trance state. The approach combines science, logic, and human connection, delivered through a focused, single-session framework. This structure supports the nervous system in recognising that the pain is no longer needed, helping individuals experience meaningful and often transformative relief.
Have a question that isn't covered here?
Our mission is to help individuals understand and release long-term pain, guided by science, compassion, and practical tools. Every question matters, and every conversation is an opportunity to make a meaningful difference.
We warmly invite you to get in touch using the contact details in the Get In Touch section below, whether to learn more, ask a question, or explore how our approach might support you or those you care for. We are here to listen and guide with clarity and care.
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