This Bone and Joint Week, 12-20 October 2020, good musculoskeletal health is now more important than ever. Whether you have a musculoskeletal condition, or you’re a commissioner, GP, health professional or employer, find resources on this page for help with musculoskeletal health.
People with bone, joint and muscle conditions (musculoskeletal conditions)
- Managing your bone, joint or muscle pain, see https://www.csp.org.uk/conditions/managing-pain-home
- Our patient members’ organisations have helplines, tips, videos, directories and petitions.
Arthritis Action: https://www.arthritisaction.org.uk
CCAA Kids with Arthritis: https://www.ccaa.org.uk/
Ehlers Danlos Support UK: www.ehlers-danlos.org…
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The British Orthopaedic Association has published their latest patient statement for those people currently awaiting elective surgery, many of whom are experiencing uncertainties and difficulties. Growing waiting lists are affecting all planned surgery, but particularly orthopaedics (bone and joint treatment) which has the largest overall waiting list of any individual specialty.
Responding to the pandemic with co-design to create digital solutions.
Health Education England e-Learning for Healthcare (HEE e-LfH) has worked with ESCAPE-pain and the Health Innovation Network to develop two e-learning resources, aimed at helping healthcare professionals and exercise instructors understand the principles behind the ESCAPE-pain programme – facilitating group education and exercise sessions for people living with chronic joint pain and learning how the programme may be implemented in their organisation.
This blog post from the HMSA’s Occupational Therapist, Jo Southall, provides an overview of strategies to deal with the not entirely comfortable idea of returning to an uncertain world when you’ve been shielding for some time, and is packed with ideas about how to ease that transition.
Andrew Bennett