Pain Management Support
Living With Pain
The NHS website contains lots of useful information, tips and advice on living with chronic pain.
Help from your GP and use of NHS services dedicated to pain management can help make sufferers more independant, reduce the severity of pain and assist in day to day coping with what can be a debilitating condition.
Need help with your joint or muscle pain? Get the myrecovery app today!
Need help with your joint or muscle pain? Download the free myrecovery app today!
If you are registered with a GP Practice within Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, you can access the free myrecovery app to help you manage your joint or muscle pain.
The myrecovery app has been created for you in partnership with healthcare professionals from across Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin, and provides information, support and encouragement to help you take control of your health.
You can download the app on a smartphone or tablet to help you with new or recurrent musculoskeletal conditions including:
- Hip Pain
- Knee Pain
- Shoulder Pain
- Elbow Pain
- Foot & Ankle Pain
- Lower Back Pain
- Neck Pain
The app offers a range of key features including:
- Videos and articles to help you understand, manage and improve your condition
- Tailored exercise programmes
- Information about local services and how to access them
- Short surveys to track your progress
- Information and guidance to help improve your overall health and wellbeing
How to sign up
Click this link to register - 'Register Here'
You will need to provide your NHS number and date of birth to set up your account. If you don't know your NHS number, follow this link -https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/online-services/find-nhs-number/
If you develop a new condition, you can re-register for the app to access additional support.
Flippin' Pain
Flippin' Pain is a public health campaign with a clear goal: to change the way people think about, talk about and treat persistent pain.
For more information, please visit their websbite - Home - Flippin' Pain (flippinpain.co.uk)
Good Boost
Good Boost is now live across Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin.
Good Boost classes are designed specifically for people with musculoskeletal conditions and concurrent health problems and can act as a bridge from clinical services to wider physical activity and self-management and pain management. There are five leisure centres across Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin now offering Good Boost sessions:
- Ludlow
- Abraham Darby
- Quarry, Shrewsbury
- Oswestry
- Wellington
This is an exciting new opportunity for people to start engaging in exercises that are designed for them. Details for the leisure centres classes are on the NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin website.
Useful Links
These links all come from trusted resoources but if you are unsure about these or any other medical matters please contact your doctor or pharmacist for advice.