Pain Toolkit e_newsletter Summer 2012
Snapshot of activities
- Pain Toolkit store is now open: Pain self-management resources to support patients and health care professionals to help with self-care www.paintoolkit.org/store
- Pain Toolkit workshops: We are delivering Pain Toolkit workshops (health practitioner and patient) through until December 2012, with more planned for 2013. Please contact Pete Moore if you would like the team to run these successful workshops for your team or workforce in 2012/2013. . Pain Toolkit workshop on 4th December 2012, Manchester has availability
- My Pain Toolkit: longer version of the Pain Toolkit, with extra tips and will be out in the autumn. Available as an iBook and hardcopy
- My Pain Toolkit for teenagers / young people: 2nd draft finished and will be available late 2012.
Follypogs 4th Fibromyalgia Conference
With three successful southeast Fibromyalgia Conferences behind us and rave reviews last Easter, the FibCon team are now planning another memorable weekend in 2013 for April 26/29 2013.
While the Easter weekend was a huge success some folks with family commitments urged us to avoid Easter for the next one. In 2013 we will avoid Easter and the school holidays and we already have promises from overseas speakers.
Following the success of the Andrew Holman lecture in July at the Chichester Park hotel we have invited our well known researcher to come back next April with an update on his PC3 MRi scan project for the UK.
The humourous Canadian Dr Kevin White, the fibro fog expert, will be back again with more news and a cabaret spot with a guitar and a ukulele band. Delegates who play guitar or the ukulele will be invited to join on a ‘jam session’.
September Awareness Week 2012
Awareness week is here once more and is running from the 3rd to the 9th September. Traditionally this is the time of the year where support groups conduct activities locally that raise awareness of fibromyalgia. These include coffee mornings, running a stall at shopping malls, craft fairs and all manner of other things. We hope to feature articles about what groups have been upto this week. If you have heard of something that's happening this week that is promoting fibromyalgia awareness then please get in touch. Let others know what you are doing for awareness week.
Send in a picture and a small description or feature it on our Facebook page.
Survey of people diagnosed with muscoloskeletal disorder
Survey of people diagnosed with a musculoskeletal disorder
Have you been diagnosed with a condition affecting your muscles, bones or joints (for example, arthritis or back pain)? If the answer is yes, and you are over 16 years of age, we would like to hear about your experiences in living with the condition, receiving treatment and benefits, managing your job, finding or leaving work. Your participation in this short survey will help a major European initiative, the Fit for Work Europe Coalition, make change happen for people with musculoskeletal conditions in the UK.
To access the survey please follow the link
www.theworkfoundation.com/surveys/uk/f4w.htm
We take every care to protect the confidentiality of the information you provide: your responses will be absolutely anonymous.
Chronic Pain Policy Coalitions Annual Review 2012
Please find attached the Chronic Pain Policy Coalition’s (CPPC) Annual Review, this is a summary of the CPPC’s achievements between June 2011- June 2012. FMA UK works with CPPC to improve the quality of life of those affected by chronic pain in the UK.
Blackpool Smile - Fun Day Sunday 19th Aug
We are locally based, covering Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre and have close ties to Blackpool Teaching Hospital Pain Management unit and SMILE the registered Charity based in Liverpool. The group is dedicated to helping and supporting people with chronic pain conditions.
The event will be held at Marton United Reformed Church Hall, Wordsworth Ave, off Preston Old Road, Blackpool and will include a Bouncy Castle, beat the goalie, face painting, homemade cake stall, crafts, raffle, chocolate tombola, bottle tombola, refreshments, body shop products and more.
Stallholders welcome £8 a table. Please contact us for availability
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Tel 0750 5210402
You can also find us on Facebook and Twitter
In association with S.M.I.L.E Liverpool Registered Charity No 1074822
Pain Summit Report - Putting Pain on the Agenda
This set the precedence of a joint venture organised by the Chronic Pain Policy Coalition (CPPC), the British Pain Society, the Faculty of Pain Medicine and the Royal College of General Practitioners.
Over 150 patients, healthcare professionals, parliamentarians and policy makers gathered at Central Hall, Westminster to discuss current pain services in the UK and the impact of pain on those who live with it. Organised by the British Pain Society, the Chronic Pain Policy Coalition (CPPC), Royal College of General Practitioners and the Faculty of Pain Medicine, this was the first such event in England.
More Articles...
- Patients Preferences matter- a recommended read from Sir Muir Gray
- Work Capability Assessment (WCA) 3rd Review
- Charity Flowers - help FMA UK when you buy flowers
- 2012 FMA UK Grand Raffle
- Chris runs Ultra Marathon for FMA UK
- Jo Swims the Channel for Fibromyaliga
- Untimely death of Ann Roberts
- Exploring the Impact of Patients Googling Symptoms
- Simon runs half marathon for fibromyalgia
- Dr Andrew Holman talks about Fibromyalgia
- Fibro Pain Map
- We need you to help fill out our survey
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