We don't just treat the pain,
We change the response driving the pattern underneath.
Clinical treatment for pain that keeps coming back.
Chronic Pain is rarely random.
Finding what keeps it going is where we start.
Manual therapy addresses structural tension and restriction in the tissue.
Acupuncture works on the nervous system response underneath it.
Targeted exercises help you move more freely again and build stability and strength.
For long-standing or complex pain, treatment works alongside Shift the Field™ a neurophysiological programme for complex and recurring pain.
As a new client your first appointment is approximately 90 minutes long to go through your consultation and your treatment.
Shift the Field™
From Autopilot to Agency
Acute pain and chronic pain are different problems. With a new injury, we step in quickly so your recovery completes while the tissue is still repairing.
Pain that keeps coming back has become a learned response. When pain returns often enough, your nervous system learns to expect it and starts protecting you early, tightening and guarding before anything has happened. Treating the tissue helps, but the protection carries on by itself.
Think of a dog that pulls on the lead because he’s so excited to get to all the smells. Tighten the lead and he stops for a moment, then pulls harder. To train him out of it for good, you make pulling harder work than walking nicely beside you, so he learns he gets there slower when he pulls. Your back pain is the dog pulling. It’s the quickest response your system has, because nobody has trained it out of the habit, and it runs without asking you. You never quite know what your back is going to do, until it does.
Most treatment works on only one side, and only once the response has already happened. It’s like an F1 car: you change the tyres and the oil but never run the diagnostics, so nobody finds the faulty sensor that’s stopping the brakes from working properly. Hands-on treatment works on the body, and that’s only half of it. Shift the Field works on the nervous system from both ends at once, brain and body, because one without the other leaves the job half done.
Shift the Field comes as practical written and audio guides, ready to download the moment you buy. Download it today, and use it the next time the pain starts.
Mission
Everything we offer is built around one principle:
when the nervous system has a bridge to safety, change becomes possible. That means creating the right conditions
for the body to allow change, recovery, repair whilst also respecting that making the body work harder
does not equal a better outcome. Quite the opposite. An inflammatory response is essential to healing and repair,
but excessive or prolonged inflammation can work directly against the desired outcome.
That's why we believe "Less is more" and why we treat both the body and skin the same way.
Building strength and capacity takes time. Being forceful and aggressive can hinder this process rather than help.
This is also why we consider "no pain no gain" outdated and short-sighted. It lacks finesse.
After all, it is easier to inflict pain than to achieve results without it.
From our clinical treatment to our neurophysiological framework Shift the Field,
each layer of intervention is designed to facilitate change and re-train the system
to adapt and build capacity, because when life changes, what we need changes with it.
Our skincare and products are also designed by this philosophy.
About
I’m Anne-Martine Dicke, founder of AMDtherapie, specialising in chronic, persistent and complex pain.
With 14 years of clinical experience, my work combines manual therapy, medical acupuncture and auricular acupuncture, with particular expertise in ASP needling; semi-permanent needling that is treatment which continues even after you leave the clinic.
I work with people experiencing persistent or recurring pain, including those who have tried numerous treatments, have symptoms that don’t seem to make sense, or have been told there’s little more that can be done.
My approach considers both the physical presentation of pain and the role of the nervous system in how pain develops, persists and returns.
I am also the creator of Shift the Field, a method developed from my clinical experience and years of investigation into the nervous system, automatic protective responses, learned expectations, beliefs and internal narrative.
It addresses an important part of persistent pain that treatment alone may not resolve: the internal processes that can continue to influence pain and protection long after the original circumstances have changed.
My work is about helping people find practical ways forward, whether through clinical treatment, Shift the Field, or a combination of both.
Anne-Martine Dicke, MA (Hons)St.Andrews, LLM Edinburgh
"Out of your vulnerabilities
will come your strength."
Get in touch:
tel:07713135395
"Woodlands", Beech Avenue,
Ladybank, Fife, KY15 7NG
Monday - Thursday : 8.30am - 4.30pm
Friday: 8.30am - 3pm
Strictly by Appointment Only.
Important Notice:
All services are provided by a licensed therapist & acupuncture practitioner. Fully insured by Balens.