01
Choose where you’re starting.
Begin with the area that needs support — ankle, knee, hip, back, neck, shoulder, or full-body pain. Pain Academy gives you a starting path that meets your body where it is today.
Pain isn’t permanent.
We’ll show you the way out.
A daily practice for chronic pain — gentle movement, nervous-system training, and short lessons that finally make it stick.
Start 7 days free
7 days free · Cancel anytime · $0 today
How it works
One app. One daily practice.
Built around how your body responds.
02
Follow your daily practice.
Each day combines gentle movement, breathwork, nervous-system training, and short lessons so you know exactly what to do without guessing. Open the app, follow the practice, and let the work build over time.
03
Let your body guide what comes next.
Pain Academy learns from your experience, your feedback, and your responses over time so the practice can evolve with you. Instead of guessing what works, your body helps show the way.
Start 7 days free
7 days free · Cancel anytime · $0 today
10,000+
students worldwide
350+
filmed movements
4.8★
App Store rating
7-day trial
free, no card needed
From members · in their own words
“Five months in and I can’t remember the last time I took an Advil. I move without pain, but more importantly, without fear.”
Mary Phillips
6-month member
“18 years of chronic back pain, herniated discs, stenosis, and sciatica. No PT visit ever helped me the way this program has. I’m not scared to move.”
Paz Barrueto
Back · 18 years · 7 weeks in
“Five years I couldn’t put on my shoes, get into the car, lie down without pain. I was thinking about a hip replacement. Day 11 here. I sleep, I walk, I’m hiking again this weekend.”
Stephanie Henderson
Hip · Day 11
“A year ago I was broken, couldn’t carry my own kids. My wife had to carry the groceries. I cried sometimes by myself, in the bathroom. After a month here, I was pain-free.”
Jefferson Garcia
Start 7 days free
7 days free · Cancel anytime · $0 today
As featured on
Why Pain Academy works
The less pain makes sense,
the more frightening it becomes.
Pain Academy combines practice with understanding.
Most people in pain have real physical things going on in their body, and a nervous system that has become more sensitive over time.
When your system is on high alert, movement can feel unpredictable. Some days your body can do more. Other days, even small things can fire the alarm.
Pain Academy helps you work with that pattern through gentle movement, nervous-system training, and short lessons that explain the “why” behind what you’re doing.
Because healing is not just doing the movements. It is learning how to trust your body again.
What you’ve tried
- Physical therapy
Treats the tissue. But chronic pain often persists long after tissue is fine.
- Painkillers
Mute the alarm. Don’t change why it’s firing.
- Stretching apps
Generic routines for any body. Yours isn’t generic.
- “Just live with it.”
Teaches your nervous system to fear movement, which only makes the alarm louder.
Pain Academy works on the part everyone else missed, the nervous system that turned pain into a habit.
What makes it different
Not another random
stretching app.
Pain Academy is not a library of disconnected exercises. It is a daily practice that helps your body and nervous system learn how to feel safe moving again.
Built around your pain area
Start with support for back, hip, knee, neck, shoulder, sciatica, or full-body pain. You do not need to figure out where to begin on your own.
Gentle enough for sensitive bodies
Pain Academy is designed for people who may flare easily, feel guarded, or feel unsure about movement. The work starts gently and builds over time.
Movement swaps built in
Not every movement is right for every body on every day. You can choose easier or harder variations so the practice can meet the body you actually have today.
Short lessons that help pain make sense
Every day includes simple education that helps you understand pain, flare-ups, progress, and the nervous system. Knowing what is happening helps the work stick.
Breathwork before movement
Each session starts by helping your system settle first. A calmer nervous system can change how the body receives the same movement.
Start 7 days free
7 days free · Cancel anytime · $0 today
The method
Three practices.
One daily plan.
Pain Academy brings together three things chronic pain often needs most: movement to help the body, nervous-system training to help the system feel safe, and understanding to make pain feel less confusing.
Not as separate programs. Not as random tools. As one daily practice you can follow from home.
I
Movement
Gentle, progressive movement to help your body rebuild safety, strength, and confidence over time.
Explore
II
Nervous-system training
Simple breathwork and meditation practices that help calm the alarm and make movement feel more approachable.
Explore
III
Learning
Short lessons that help you understand pain, flare-ups, fear, sensitivity, and progress.
Explore
Start 7 days free
7 days free · Cancel anytime · $0 today
Inside the app
You don’t need to plan anything.
Just open the app.
Open the app and the day is already laid out, today’s routine, today’s meditation, today’s lesson, in the order that makes sense. A small calendar strip at the top shows the week ahead as colored circles per day, one color per activity, so you can see Monday at a glance and know exactly what’s on it. No spreadsheet, no coordinating, no figuring out what comes next.
The schedule
Every day,
already planned for you.
Meditation every day. Your starting Relief course every day. A Strength course twice a week. Mobility on alternating days. Each layer with its own cadence, and the app figures out which one runs on which day, so you wake up to one clean plan instead of a stack of programs you have to coordinate yourself.
Daily
meditation as the floor underneath
Layered
Relief, Strength, Mobility, woven, not stacked
Adaptive
cadence that listens to your week
Your week
Auto-builtToday·Monday
4 on the plateMeditation
Relief
Strength
Mobility
The week
M
T
W
T
F
S
S
MeditationFoundations · Day 12
Every day
ReliefLower Back Relief
Every day
StrengthCore Stability
Mon · Thu
MobilityHip Mobility
Every other day
Meditation + Relief + Strength + Mobility · one week
Adapts as you go
Notebook
14-day streakToday · Hip Relief
Sleeping Volcano · Round 3
Felt
Better than last time
“Hip felt loose by the second set. The 90/90 was the one that finally clicked, going to swap it in tomorrow.”
2 weeks agoTrending up
The notebook
Every routine.
Quietly logged.
Every routine you finish gets saved automatically. Drop in a quick note about how it landed, mark how the body felt, and over the weeks a real picture starts to form, which routines your hip actually likes, which days you tend to skip, which variation finally cracked the pattern. The work stops evaporating.
Auto-logged
every completed routine
Notes & feel
kept beside each session
More than schedule, SOS, and notebook.
Soma the AI tutor, the movement library, and the Win Wall, every feature inside the app gets its full beat on /app.
Founder · Pain Academy
Vinny Crispino
About the founder
Built by someone
who lived the problem.
Vinny was an 8× All-American D1 swimmer when a surfing accident broke his back in multiple places. The bones healed. The pain didn’t. He spent the next decade in physical therapy and on medications that didn’t hold.
When he finally found the work that pulled him out, gentle, progressive movement paired with nervous-system training and pain education, he built Pain Academy to put it in everyone’s hands. The same framework, written for sensitive bodies, taught step by step.
“Pain was my greatest teacher.”
Tuition · Essentials Plan
7 days free
First week
on us.
Try Pain Academy free for 7 days. If it isn’t the missing piece, cancel before day 8 and pay nothing. After that, less than one PT visit a month.
Monthly
Try it for a month
$0today
7 days free
Then
$49.99/ month
billed monthly · cancel any time
Most popular
Quarterly
≈ $43.33 / month
$0today
7 days free
Then
$129.99/ quarter
Save $20
billed every 3 months · cancel any time
Annual
≈ $41.67 / month
$0today
7 days free
Then
$499.99/ year
Save $100
billed annually · cancel any time
Every plan includes
Full curriculum, body, nervous system, mind
Every program, every body area
Soma AI tutor, unlimited
Personalized rounds, adaptive courses
New programs added monthly
7 days free, cancel any time before day 8
Start 7 days free
See your plan inside the app first. No card needed today.
Curious how this stacks up against PT, chiropractors, and massage? See the full comparison →
Want extra support? Add a coach.
Optional add-on · by application · +$149/mo on top of your Essentials plan. A real human paired to you, only for active members who want one.
Common questions
What you’re probably
about to ask.
Pain Academy is built for sensitive bodies. Your plan includes gentle starting points, movement swaps, and calmer options for flare days. There’s an SOS mode you can switch on any day you need it.
Still have questions? Start your 7-day free trial, look around inside the app first, and you can ask anything before deciding.
Your body doesn’t need
another random stretch.
It needs a safer starting point.
Start your 7-day free trial and let Pain Academy build a daily practice around your body, your pain, and your next best step.
7 days free · Cancel anytime · $0 today.