About Painfree U
Painfree U builds digital tools that teach people how to manage their own pain with techniques they can perform themselves — no medication, no app, no clinic required.
The method
Every technique we teach is grounded in lymphatic drainage, manual therapy and trigger-point work — established clinical disciplines with decades of practice. What's new is the accessibility: someone waking up with a migraine at 4 AM should be able to get guided help immediately, from their phone or browser, without a subscription or a waitlist.
Our flagship product is Pocket — a conversational pain guide that helps you pinpoint the source of your pain and walks you through targeted at-home techniques in two to five minutes. Pocket currently covers neck, headache/migraine, sinus and jaw/TMJ.
Pilot results (March–April 2026): Among 15 users with moderate to severe pain (average 7.07 of 10) who completed a Pocket protocol, 100% reported relief — averaging 50.5% reduction. No one got worse.
Preliminary data, small sample, self-selected cohort. Not a clinical trial.
Founder
Rune Åbø has practiced lymphatic drainage for over 20 years, is the author of «Smertefri — neck, headache, shoulders, jaw, sinus, tinnitus», and built the clinical knowledge base that Pocket rests on.
The technology
Pocket combines a symbolic knowledge graph — structured data on muscles, pain patterns and verified at-home techniques drawn directly from Rune Åbø's book and clinical experience — with a language model that translates users' own words into lookups against the graph. The language model never invents techniques on its own; it only communicates what has been clinically vetted.
Contact
Email: [email protected]
Location: Oslo, Norway