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Pain in Cancer Survivors
During my post-doctoral research at the University of Surrey I reviewed the confidence and perceived skills of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) practitioners in providing care and symptom management for those clients post cancer therapy. 
Results indicated a need for us to re-evaluate how we manage and support cancer survivors. 

Cancer patients are surviving longer because of better screening, better management and more complex treatment regimes, but a cancer diagnosis can mean coping with both physical and psychological symptoms long after the end of active treatment. Pain is just one of those symptoms and is often difficult to treat effectively.

This two-day advanced reflexology training addresses pain as one of the late and long-term consequences.  Results from my recent study indicate that my nerve reflexology protocol:
  1. decreases subjective pain scores,
  2. attenuates pain for at least 7 days following this nerve reflexology approach and reduces overall VAS scores
  3. produces positive outcomes on overall wellbeing. 

To ensure you are able to apply these techniques in your clinical environment, at least 70% of the workshop will focus on practical skills. 

            AUTUMN 2025 Course Dates and Venues
8th/9th December        ONLINE         10am - 4pm GMT
During this workshop we will consider the pain associated with:
  • Chemotherapy induced peripheral neuropathic pain
  • Radiation toxicity induced pain
  • Persistent post-surgical pain
  • Pain as a consequence of Hormonal Therapy
  • Fascial changes and tissue integrity
  • What we can do support clients in pain using a combination of moves based on a nerve reflexology approach.
The course fee is £260 and includes:
  • Guided tuition
  • Course handout
  • Access to the professional video sequence
  • Follow-up Q&A sessions via Zoom
  • Ongoing support
  • Certificate of competence to practice following case study approval

CLIENT TESTIMONIAL

Real world feedback from those going through the Cancer trajectory makes a real difference to others, so my heartfelt thanks go to
Ann Pye who has very generously given her consent for me to use this video. 

​Ann is a client of Rachel Cox, one of my many trained practitioners, who works in the Linda McCartney Centre at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, she uses my nerve reflexology protocol with her clients.
​October 2025.
Research participation
As part of this workshop you are required to submit at least one case study from a client experiencing pain after Cancer or its treatment and/or specifically, chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN). 
​A certificate of competence  will only be issued on completion of a marked case study and observed practical task.
If you have previously trained with me on this workshop and are interested in refreshing/updating your skills, please contact me for opportunities to attend these dates as a refresher course.

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See what previous participants have said about this workshop: 
  • Great workshop, very engaging, looking forward to learning more
  • In-depth knowledge, well shared – thought provoking. Thank you
  • Brilliant course, fantastic knowledge
  • Really enjoyed course content, found the subject fascinating
  • Course content was really thorough, very interesting, well researched and easy to understand
  • Enjoyed the workshop tremendously – it was challenging but rewarding.Amazing!
  • Lovely course well presented in a relaxed but structured way.
  • Drawing on the feet blew my mind away, in a great way.
  • Learnt so many new things, so interesting.
  • Excellent training, thank you.
  • Love how simple and well explained Carol made the day.  Very interested in learning more.

A review from Rachel Cox after following the protocol with her Cancer patients:
Just a quick update on how I’ve been working with the Pain in Cancer Survivors techniques. Well wow, what can I say. The feedback from the patients has been fantastic. I actually saw a visible difference in a patient’s feet last week. Her toes were curled under and her big toes sticking straight up. Her ankles were also swollen. An hour later her toes looked normal and the swelling had reduced. Her pain had subsided and she was able to walk in bare feet.  I have also used this technique on a client who has had a stroke, affecting her left side. Her feedback was that she felt tingling up and down her left side.