Don't give up on future you.
I get it, you’ve tried everything and feel kind of lost in space with how to manage poorly understood diseases like Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy), or the culmination of multiple other chronic diagnosis. You’re doing your best to stay active and push through in hopes of decreasing pain and hanging on to quality of life, but continue to feel stuck and too limited. But what if I told you it doesn’t have to be like that? That there are ways to take your power back again.
Want to decrease pain?
My goal is to provide education that help patients understand pain and their bodies, build autonomy and agency, and be able to effectively manage their own care. Besides all my Instagram content, you can join the free RWC community newsletter, which I send out every week-ish with chronic pain tips, personal perspective and announcements around upcoming programs and partnerships. For more chronic pain resources, listen to my podcast with Dr. Dan Bates, It’s Not in Your Head - available on all podcast players, YouTube, and our website.
What makes RWC different?
RWC and its programs were founded on the ultimate mission of improving access to unique movement techniques and lifestyle medicine that improve symptoms and function enough for you to live a larger life. Complex patients are typically severely lacking evidence-based information and individualized care and support – especially when it comes to health, fitness and lifestyle factors outside of treatments and approaches the traditional medical system emphasizes. I developed my signature framework, The MARS Method and related services, with the goal of arming more patients with the tools and strategies needed to develop the resilience to contiually improve long-term.
PATIENT PROGRAMS
Build your base properly to decrease pain from compensations/weakness with individualized, brain based techniques for sensory deficits and neurological conditions that improve stability and movement patterns.
Integrate individualized strength and aerobic training sustainably once you have improved underlying cracks in the foundation from a stability perspective so you can continue to decrease pain and build resilience long-term.
Treat the different symptoms of nervous system dysfunction that come with complex pain incl. sensory sensitivity, sleep disturbance, fatigue, cognitive impairment, mood, dysautonomias, or motor dysfunction.
Hi, I’m Justine.
I work with chronic pain patients who are looking for more lasting solutions and agency with their care.
Living with persistent pain or rare, difficult to treat, poorly understood diseases is unfortunately beyond what the medical system is designed to support. It often lacks the communication and individualized attention that helps patients understand what they can control and what affects the way we experience pain. Doctors don’t have the time to address the vast majority of variables in patients lives that are dramatically impacting their quality of life. Their job is to manage treatments and interventions. Your job is to manage everything else. My job is to help you identify what those things are and implement individualized strategies that actually move the needle for you and create meaningful change.
Let’s work together!
Private Sessions
The longer we live in pain, the more cracks in the foundation we develop from a stability perspective, especially with hypermobility accompanying persistent pain. In Private Sessions, we focus on movement during calls together using a brain-based approach to movement with sensory strategies that improve underlying weakness, inhibition, and brain mapping issues that result from living in pain and perpetuate it further. It is crucial to improve that prior to scaffolding on more challenging resistance training like we do with the individual fitness programming track. We go at whatever pace is appropriate for your needs and goals, so we sustainably integrate these techniques, build autonomy, and decrease pain.
Individual Fitness Programming
When you live with unique pathologies and intrusive pain, it can be difficult to find the guidance we need in most gym settings, or bridge the gap from physical therapy to consistent movement. I assess your movement dysfunctions and take into account your history, pain drivers, barriers, and goals, to design an individualized program with the right exercise selection, volume, and adjustments as we go, so you improve your movement patterns and strength. You have a perfectly designed program written for you to show up and execute, with the support needed to actually follow through and keep progressing.
Complex Pain Progressions (CPP) Program
Have complex pathologies like CRPS, or hEDS/HSD with additional challenges like sensory sensitization, sleep disturbance, extreme fatigue, brain fog, GIT issues, dysautonomia, mood challenges, and weird motor symptoms like spasming or myocolonic jerks? You are dealing with central sensitization, or nervous system dysfunction, that often accompanies persistent pain. This group program teaches you how to systematically addresses and progress the patient strategies to treat your specific symptom buckets and related diagnosis like ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia, POTS etc. so you can decrease pain amplification and get control of your life again.
Clinician Consult
Clinician or movement pro working with a complex patient or caseload? Get answers to anything you may be having a hard time with, whether pain management strategies or movement, that get you wins without feeling frustrated or unsure where to start . You’ll leave with answers to your concerns so you can keep your client moving forward, build trust with them, see patterns faster, and have go-to techniques that cut through the noise of complicated presentations.
You can also listen to It’s Not in Your Head podcast, get free content on Instagram, and join the no-cost RWC community newsletter, which I send out every week-ish for more chronic pain tips, personal perspective and announcements around upcoming programs and partnerships!