Freedom from Pain, Reclaimed for Life
Don't just manage pain — become Bigger than it.
1 in 3 Irish adults live with chronic pain.
Empowering you with evidence-based knowledge, practical tools, and personalized support to transform your relationship with pain — whether online or in-person.
Bigger Than Pain
A Digital Wellness Platform
Bigger Than Pain is a digital wellness platform built around the same clinical framework David uses in clinic every day. It tracks how you're actually doing — pain patterns, sleep, energy, movement tolerance, mood — and adapts what it asks of you, day by day. Not a course. Not generic exercises. One connected system you can follow between appointments, or independently.
Wayfinder
A daily check-in and adaptive guidance layer that helps you decide what to do, when to do it, and how to handle flare-ups without panic or guesswork.
The Vault
Evidence-based pain education, translated from the clinical literature into language that's actually usable in daily life. Grounded in 150+ published studies.
Biggie
A clinically informed AI companion that understands your history, your patterns, and your current state — and supports you between sessions.
Move
A personalised movement plan, shaped by a guided self-check and selected by a clinician, not an algorithm. Three or four movements at a time. Never overwhelming.
Personalised Support for Your Unique Journey
Work 1:1 with David for tailored guidance and care.
Sometimes you need more than a platform — you need someone in your corner. David's 1:1 clinic sessions provide the personalised guidance and hands-on care that can make all the difference, especially when pain has been persistent and complex.
- Individualized assessments that look at the full picture — not just where it hurts
- Work directly with a chronic pain expert who understands what you're going through
- Gain clarity on why your pain persists and what to do about it
- Achieve faster results with a plan tailored specifically to you
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What happens between your sessions?
A clinic appointment is an hour. Recovery happens in the other 167.
Every clinic client can continue their work inside Bigger Than Pain — the same framework, tracking their patterns, guiding their movement, and answering the questions that come up at 11pm when no one else is around.
Your sessions and your platform talk to each other. Nothing gets lost between appointments.
Meet Your Guide
David Mc Gettigan
“I'm David, a chronic pain specialist who's both lived through and transformed pain personally. After years of struggling with my own chronic pain and seeing the limitations of traditional approaches, I dedicated my career to finding a better way. Today, I combine cutting-edge pain science with practical, real-world tools to help people reclaim their lives from persistent pain.”
With clinics in Monaghan and Dublin, and the Bigger Than Pain digital recovery platform, David has supported thousands of people moving beyond pain and back to the life they love.
Learn More About DavidYou might be thinking, ‘I've tried everything...’ And without the right approach, you might be right.
Without the complete picture:
- Symptoms continue to dominate your daily life
- Movement becomes increasingly restricted as fear takes hold
- Worry intensifies as you struggle to find answers
- Sleep deteriorates, leaving you exhausted and frustrated
- You find yourself constantly searching for a miracle cure
- You settle for 'as good as it gets' — when so much more is possible
Ireland has just 27 pain consultants for a population of 5 million — and waiting lists have historically stretched to years.
But it doesn't have to be this way...
The last time Ireland measured the scale of its chronic pain problem was 2011. The number was 1 in 3. Nobody has checked since.
Your Recovery Roadmap
A clear, structured path from where you are now to where you want to be.
Begin Your Journey
Whether you start with the Bigger Than Pain platform or work 1:1 with David in clinic, we begin by understanding your unique pain story, your goals, and what has and hasn't worked before.
Follow the Recovery Roadmap
Through a combination of pain education, movement retraining, nervous system regulation, and mindset work, you'll build a personalised recovery plan that addresses the root causes — not just the symptoms.
Reclaim Your Life
As your understanding deepens and your body responds, you'll rediscover what it feels like to move with confidence, sleep without pain, and live without limits.
My personal promise to you
I know what it's like to feel trapped by pain. I know the frustration of being told “there's nothing more we can do” or “you just have to learn to live with it.” I've been there — and I've found a way through.
My promise to you is simple: I will meet you where you are, I will listen to your story, and I will give you the honest, evidence-based guidance you need to move forward. I won't promise overnight miracles, but I will promise that with the right understanding and the right tools, change is possible.
Whether you use the Bigger Than Pain platform or work with me 1:1, you'll have someone in your corner who genuinely cares about your recovery — because I've walked this road myself, and I know how much it matters to have someone who truly understands.
The Bigger Than Pain Approach
Pain is complex — but recovery doesn't have to be. Our approach is built on five core truths:
Pain is a signal, not a damage report
Your pain is real — but it doesn't always mean something is broken. Pain is your nervous system's way of trying to keep you safe, and sometimes it gets stuck in protection mode long after the original threat has passed.
Your body is stronger than you think
Chronic pain can make you feel fragile, but your body is remarkably resilient. With the right approach, you can rebuild trust in your body and rediscover what it's truly capable of.
Knowledge is medicine
Understanding why your pain persists is one of the most powerful steps you can take. When you understand the science, fear decreases, confidence grows, and recovery accelerates.
Recovery is not linear — and that's okay
There will be good days and harder days. What matters is the overall direction. We teach you how to navigate setbacks without losing momentum or hope.
You are the expert on your own body
We provide the framework, the tools, and the guidance — but you bring the lived experience. Together, we build a recovery plan that honours your unique journey.
Recovery is a process — not a single treatment, not a quick fix, and not something that happens to you. It's something you build, step by step, with the right knowledge, the right tools, and the right support. And we're here to walk that path with you.
Two ways in. One system.
Work with David 1:1 in Monaghan or Dublin for hands-on assessment and direct clinical reasoning. Use the Bigger Than Pain platform to carry that work through every day between sessions — or to start independently from anywhere.
Clients who use both get significantly more from each. They arrive to appointments already tracking, already educated, already inside the framework. That means we go deeper, faster.
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