Georgie Oldfield, MCSP

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Georgie Oldfield

Georgie Oldfield, MCSP is a Chartered Physiotherapist working in the United Kingdom and actively works to educate people about TMS throughout the UK. She is the founder of SIRPA, an organization dedicated to training practitioners and coaches in the United Kingdom in the treatment of TMS/PPD, and is the author of the book Chronic Pain: Your Key to Recovery which was published in May 2014. Georgie also created the SIRPA Recovery CD which was edited by Dave Clarke, MD, and has also developed an online recovery program.

Georgie has been treating patients with TMS/PPD since 2007 and the majority of her workload is now with patients who have these symptoms of stress illness. She originally created the website www.tmsrecovery.com in 2007, which is now replaced by the website www.georgieoldfield.com. She also runs the Pain Relief Centre, located in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire and also once a month runs an assessment clinic in London.

Georgie has also had several national speaking engagements where she talks about her work. She is the organizer of the 2015 conference “Chronic Pain: to suppress, manage, or cure?”.

SIRPA

Main Article: SIRPA

In 2010 Georgie Oldfield founded SIRPA, Ltd (Stress Illness Recovery Practitioner Association), an organization that trains health practitioners in the United Kingdom in the treatment of TMS/PPD symptoms. With the support of Dave Clarke, MD, Georgie developed a four-day training program that includes lectures, role playing, and practical workshops, as well as personal guidance from Georgie in the months following the intensive program.

Georgie also developed the Online SIRPA Recovery Programme, which she describes as a culmination of her clinical work in developing her own treatment approach for people with chronic pain (Source).

Q&A With an Expert Answers

Georgie Oldfield has contributed to the TMS Wiki's Question and Answer with an Expert program. The following are links to the questions she has answered.

• Flare-ups after journaling
• Can Allergies Be TMS?
• I like my therapist, but she doesn't know about TMS
• Is fibrous scarring around nerve roots likely to cause pain?
• Should my daughter try physiotherapy first?
• Dealing with a potential relapse trigger
• How do I know my pain is not being caused by my bulging disc?
• How do I handle an acute relapse?

Research Abstracts

Clinical Audit reporting on outcomes of a Tension Myoneural Syndrome (TMS) Programme in a physiotherapy practice Georgie Oldfield 2009 Summary A small scale retrospective case study was conducted in the UK by physiotherapist Georgie Oldfield, surveying 24 of her patients treated between November 2007 and January 2008. Lower back pain, migraines and sciatica were the most common complaints, with the average length of symptoms over 3 years. The patients were surveyed in June 2008 and again in June 2009. Twenty of the patients reported an 80-100% improvement in June 2008, and although only twenty could be contacted in June 2009, 18 had maintained their progress or improved. As Georgie Oldfield says “Although not hard evidence and with relatively few patients, the results of this audit support Dr. Sarno's theory that the increasing epidemic of chronic pain may well be an emotionally induced phenomenon.” (Source)

Contact Information

19 Longley Lane
Huddersfield
West Yorkshire, UK
(HD4 6PS)

Tel: 01484 452 500

Related Links

• Forum Profile
  
• Survey Response
  
• Website
  
• The Stress Illness Recovery Practitioner's Association (SIRPA)
• Chronic Pain: Your Key to Recovery
• “Why You Need to Stop Trying so Hard to Get Better” article
• Miracles of Mindbody Medicine article
• Former Forum Posts

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