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Stimpod Therapy at Thorpes Physiotherapy
Do you suffer from any of the below symptoms?
- A lack of sensation, tingling, pins and needles or numbness in your feet or hands
- Balance problems due to a lack of sensation (peripheral neuropathy)
- Shooting, burning, or electric-shock-like pain
- Heightened sensitivity to touch or temperature
- Persistent discomfort after surgery or injury
These symptoms often signal nerve irritation / damage — and this is where Stimpod Therapy can make a huge difference.
Stimpod NMS460 therapy is an innovative neuromodulation treatment designed to aid musculoskeletal recovery and nerve-related pain conditions. Using pulsed radio-frequency (PRF) stimulation, it helps normalise nerve function, decrease pain, nerve sensitivity, and enhance overall recovery.
Unlike other treatments that only provide short-term relief, Stimpod therapy directly addresses nerve dysfunction, making it an effective option for both acute injuries and chronic pain conditions.
It’s completely non-invasive, drug-free, and highly effective for both recent injuries and long-standing pain conditions.
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What Stimpod Therapy can help with
Nerve-related pain can disrupt daily life, cause significant pain and distress and reduce people’s quality of life. Stimpod therapy can benefit a wide range of conditions where nerve dysfunction or sensitivity causes pain and dysfunction, including.
- Neuropathy linked to diabetes or chemotherapy
- Sciatica and lower back pain
- Spinal nerve conditions -herniated discs and chronic back / neck pain
- Carpal tunnel syndrome and other entrapment neuropathies (e.g Cubital tunnel and tarsal tunnel syndrome)
- Overload injuries -Tendon problems (such as Achilles tendon and tennis elbow)
- Post-surgical nerve irritation
- Fibromyalgia and complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS)
How Stimpod works
Stimpod NMS460 therapy is an advanced peripheral nerve stimulation treatment that uses pulsed radio frequency (PRF) therapy to reset and restore nerve function. This non-invasive therapy reduces pain sensitivity, promotes nerve regeneration, and enhances neuromodulation, making it particularly effective for musculoskeletal nerve pain, post-surgical recovery, and chronic pain syndromes.
Stimpod therapy works by:
- Reducing hypersensitivity of pain fibres (C-fibres) – Helping calm overfiring nerves contributing to acute and chronic pain.
- Promoting nerve regeneration – Stimulating natural repair of damaged nerve fibres
- Enhancing neuroplasticity and pain modulation – Supporting long-term nerve recovery by rewiring pain pathways.
Integrating Stimpod therapy within a comprehensive physiotherapy programme helped to ensure lasting pain relief, improved mobility, and optimal nerve recovery.
The treatment is well tolerated and comfortable for the majority of people. You may feel a light pulsing sensation or small muscle twitch during treatment, but its not painful or unpleasant. Many people notice a reduction in pain after a session or two.
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Stimpod for Vagus Nerve Stimulation
There is lot of research being conducted in the area of Vagus Nerve Stimulation including its role in enhancing neuroplasticity, reducing inflammation, and improving autonomic function. This helps with supporting recovery, relaxation, and whole-body balance.
In addition to treating local nerve pain, Stimpod therapy can be used to gently stimulate the vagus nerve — one of the body’s main communication pathways between the brain and internal organs. The vagus nerve helps regulate vital autonomic functions such as heart rate, breathing, digestion, and the body’s response to stress (sympathetic response).
When the sympathetic nervous system becomes imbalanced — often due to pain, injury, or chronic stress — it can contribute to ongoing muscle tension, poor sleep, inflammation, and slower recovery. Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) using the Stimpod helps to stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system, to restore calm to the nervous system, supporting both physical healing and overall wellbeing.
Benefits of Vagus nerve stimulation may include:
- Reduced stress and improved relaxation response (our clients often report this immediately after treatment)
- Better sleep hygiene
- Improved gut health and digestion
- Enhanced immune response
- Greater pain tolerance and improved recovery after injury
Vagus nerve stimulation with the Stimpod is non-invasive, comfortable, and safe. It’s often used alongside physiotherapy to help patients who are struggling with stress-related tension, chronic pain or slower healing after injury.
By helping to rebalance the nervous system, Vagus nerve stimulation can enhance your body’s responsive to treatment.
Benefits of Stimpod Therapy at Thorpes Physiotherapy
To achieve best results, here at Thorpes Physiotherapy, we don’t use Stimpod therapy as a standalone treatment. We find combining this cutting edge technology with other physiotherapy interventions achieves the best results. While Stimpod is highly effective at calming, rebooting and restoring nerve function, it must be combined with education, active rehabilitation, strength and conditioning exercises and healthy lifestyle changes to create lasting improvements. Simply reducing nerve sensitivity is not enough — clients must actively engage in their recovery to rebuild strength, manage their condition and restore function.
By integrating Stimpod therapy into a comprehensive treatment plan, we provide an effective solution for those struggling with persistent nerve-related pain. The key benefits of this approach include:
- Rapid reduction in pain and sensitivity (often noticed within a couple of sessions)
- Enhanced effectiveness of your Physiotherapy and rehabilitation programme
- 100% non-invasive and medication-free. Stimpod Therapy is safe and has no known side effects. However, it’s not suitable for anyone with a pacemaker or certain heart rhythm conditions.
Our unique approach ensures you not only feel better, but move and function better too — giving you confidence to return to the activities you love.
Next Step
If you have:
- Had enough of nerve-related pain limiting your life.
- Don’t want to be reliant on medication.
- Have tried other treatments that haven’t worked
Then Stimpod therapy at Thorpes could be a game changer.
Book a consultation at Thorpes Physiotherapy to discover how this treatment could help you.
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