The Ella App is a 6 week education programme that teaches you how to manage chronic pelvic pain symptoms from home with evidence-based practical tools available at your fingertips.
Developed by experts, the Ella App helps you learn how to address two important drivers of chronic pelvic pain: pain system hypersensitivity and nervous system dysregulation.
The Ella App uses a proven approach to chronic pelvic pain symptoms. Our in person programme demonstrated a clinically significant improvement in pain intensity in over 80% of participants 3 months post completion of the programme.* This is where the Ella App was born.
So how does it work?
The Ella App will give you an up-to-date understanding of pain science and what is actually going on when you experience ongoing pelvic pain. Through a series of cognitive-behavioural therapy techniques, meditations, movement sessions and guided breath work you will learn how to calm your nervous system and address a hypersensitive pain system.
Studies have shown up to 75% of women with chronic pelvic pain have pain system hypersensitivity. These are the changes in our brain and nervous system that occur when we experience ongoing pain. The good news is these changes can be reversed through a process called neuroplasticity.
What you get:
An evidence based educational pain programme designed by clinicians who developed and piloted the first pelvic pain-specific group MDT pain management program (PMP) in Australasia
New daily content including educational articles, movement and stretch sessions designed by women’s health physiotherapists, meditations, guided breath work and more
A pain flare toolkit to save your favourite sessions for when you need them most
Intuitive streak tracking to motivate you to develop habits that support longterm healing
Weekly emails with additional supporting resources and worksheets
*Joseph, K. Mills, J. (2024) “Improvements from a small-group multidisciplinary pain self-management intervention for women living with pelvic pain maintained at 12 months”
The Ella App is based on established clinical guidelines: https://ranzcog.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/RCOG-The-Initial-Management-of-Chronic-Pelvic-Pain.pdf