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The Pain Toolkit Website
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- Published on Friday, 18 November 2011 15:27
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This website offers a wealth of resources to help people with long-term health conditions to manage their pain on a daily basis, the most important of which is the Pain Toolkit. The author of the Pain Toolkit, Peter Moore, lives with persistent pain, asthma and osteoarthritis and put the Toolkit together in order to offer handy tips and skills to help and support you self manage your pain. They offer some great advice and can act as a launchpad to help you manage your pain more effectively.
Peter and his team have also put together various interactive workshops aimed at patients and healthcare professionals where you can learn more about how to utilise these tools and apply them to your everyday life or teach them to your patients. The workshops are taught by people who live with long-term health conditions and are good self managers themselves. They are low-cost, simple and effective; ideal for people who want to learn to become good self managers and play an active role in their own treatment.
The website also keeps you up-to-date with new books and resources available for managing pain, as well as dates of upcoming conferences or workshops that may be of interest. It is well worth a look.
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- National Helpline 0300 999 3333 (10am - 4pm Mon - Fri)
- Benefits Helpline 0300 999 0055 (10am - 12pm Mon, Wed and Fri)
- Complimentary information booklets for doctors and other professionals (fully referenced)
- Books and videos
- Website Contacts with legal specialists
- Conferences
- Local support group and helpline contacts
If your Health Care Professional needs some education in fibromyalgia you can request that an FMA UK Health Professionals Pack is sent out to them. All we need is the name of the Health CareProfessional and the address of their practice. We will then send a pack to their surgery addressed from us to them.
You can request a medical pack using this form.
You can find a Support Group near you by contacting the Regional Coordinator for your area. If there does not happen to be a support group near you then maybe you can join with some other members and set one up. Support groups provide a social benefit as well as the opportunity to share tips on coping with fibro. They come in all shapes and sizes and we are often told how they have helped people.
