Dr. Valentina Buscemi, Pain Management and M.I.A.L Services Reviews 20

It’s rare to find a medical or healthcare professional who really gets chronic pain and the problems it creates, but Valentina does. She’s been great. At the same time as giving me hands-on treatment for my shoulder pain that just seemed to emerge out of nowhere, she’s looked at my posture and helped me change it, so that I’m not causing my back and shoulders additional stress. And not just by saying shoulders down and keep a neutral position in your lower back. She’s looked at which of my muscles are weak, given me specific exercises for them, and made sure that I was exercising the correct muscle instead of the muscles I usually recruit to do things in place of the weak ones. And she’s been very specific about how to improve my posture in a way that feels like it’s working and helping. And I say that as someone who has already significantly improved my posture from where it started and thought I’d got as far as I could.
She’s also given me a lot of practical advice to help with the chronic pain, which she has tailored to me and my needs. I have a long history of not getting on with some of the standard advice given to people with chronic pain. When I told her why I didn’t or couldn’t or wouldn’t do certain things, instead of saying “it’s take it or leave it”, she tried to understand why I was saying that and looked for other options or ways to adapt the advice so that it did fit me and my needs. I had previously thought that I was up to date on general chronic pain advice and was already incorporating the bits most relevant to me. I was wrong. Valentina’s advice has been incredibly helpful, and she’s found excellent ways of adapting what she knows to my specific needs.
Her advice on what to do if the exercises hurt has also been incredibly useful. If you have the chance to see her either for a specific injury or for chronic pain in general, I highly recommend that you take it.

a complex and curious world to discover to help patients with chronic pain return to living in well-being by analyzing that behind the symptom of apparently physical pain there are other dynamics that must be analyzed

She is a clinician researcher and she does feel and master what she talks about. She can offer the perfect mixed rehab service or help combining science and real clinic life. With a natural empathy she is "clear" and "deep" because she loves what she does and she really wants to help you. Something rarer these days.

I suffered from upper back pain for a while when I started working with Dr Valentina.

Valentina offered a holistic, very personalised approach to the problem. She helped me to understand my HSP, and explained what triggered the pain. We worked together using movement and meditation techniques. Dr Valentina is very understanding, calm and empathetic. She equipped me with knowledge and tools that help me now to manage stress and my back pain has gone! She helped me to understand myself better. I’m very grateful and highly recommend Dr Valentina’s therapy

Very professional and great to work with.

A truly amazing experience at the hands of Valentina. Valentina offers a balanced holistic approach to pain management. Her service has the balance between theory and pain focused stretches. Valentina’s service definitely helped with my pain management.. this is far more useful than the traditional’ receive a deep tissue massage which last for a couple of hours then the pain returns’. This progressive approach to pain management is what makes Valentina stand out. I think that she is amazing , very understated but very focused on her patients having an increased awareness of their mental and physical states and demonstrates ways to create balance between the two .. therefore alleviating the pain.

I started having sessions with Valentina at the beginning of this year when I was struggling with Fibromyalgia pain symptoms. Before our sessions, I was feeling so lost, desperate and overwhelmed. I didn't understand why I had so much pain. She gave me detailed crystal clear explanations and helped me understand why I had pain and what I should do to prevent it. She took the time to understand me and my needs. Thanks to her, I didn't experience as strong Fibromyalgia flare-ups as I did before our sessions. I also discovered things about myself that I didn't realise before. I had numerous enlightening moments during our sessions where I thought wow that's why and why I never thought about that before? In addition to pain management tools that she provided, she also helped with my high sensitivity.
It was lovely to work with a person who has vast knowledge about Fibromyalgia and HSP at the same time. For the first time I really felt understood. I would like to thank Valentina for this journey and highly recommend her to the people who struggle with their pain symptoms and/or being an HSP.

The work I did with Valentina has been very useful to improve my daily-life. She took the time to understand me, the way I function, and my specific needs, also being HSP. She guided me to undertsanding what was going on and how to improve my life. I particularly enjoyed working on the internal family systems model, that resulted in several aha moments and had positive consequences in my personal relationships. I absolutely recommend her.

Valentina was a kind and patient teacher, she taught us some mindfulness techniques that are really useful for combating daily stress, highly recommended!

I loved this course. A great intro to mindfulness, how it works and why. I learned how to tune into myself which is a priceless skill. I liked the balance of theory and practise sessions so you understand both, the why and the how. Will recommend to everyone!

I valued Valentina's personal warmth, empathy and soothing presence. Her holistic approach - i.e., her ability to combine neurological, biological, psychological and social theory with physical interventions - was far more helpful to me than the solely medical and psychological interventions I'd previously experienced, and her combination of qualifications and experience was well-suited to the issues I brought to work on. Valentina provided a wealth of information in-session, and I found it especially helpful that she emailed me summaries of each session and links to additional materials - e.g., book recommendations - to enable me to continue our work independently. I appreciated that she encouraged me to email her between sessions with questions and comments: when I did this, on occasion, I felt heard and contained by her responses, which she then brought back into our next sessions. Throughout, Valentina was responsive to my experience of our work: she actively invited me to shape the content of our sessions and changed their focus in response to the feedback I gave her.

I highly recommend Valentina's sessions. She has taught me exercises tailored to my personal needs and goals which are helping me to manage my pain in the long term.