Steps to Healthier Living with Chronic Pain

In partnership with the Kansas City Regional Arthritis Center at Saint Luke’s Hospital, MARC, and the University of Missouri Extension, are offering a virtual Steps to Healthier Living with Chronic Pain Self-Management Program via Zoom. The program was developed at Stanford University.

The program is highly participatory. Mutual support and success builds participants’ confidence in their ability to manage their health and to achieve or maintain active and fulfilling lives.

Participants will learn about:

• Appropriate exercise for maintaining and improving strength and endurance
• Balancing activity with rest
• Tools for overcoming worst-case thinking
• How our minds affect pain and how we can use our minds to lessen pain
• Negative emotions
• Healthy eating
• Appropriate use of medication
• Working more effectively with health care providers
• Communicating with friends and family
• Communicating with the health care system
• Communicating with oneself
• Action-planning, problem-solving, decision-making

Materials participants receive the “Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Pain,” book, Moving Easy CD, and Relaxation for Mind and Body CD.

Spouses, caregivers, etc. are welcome too.

For more information or to register, contact:

Debbie Bennett
bennettdl@missouri.edu

Sara Bridgewater
sbridgwater@missouri.edu

Denise Sullivan
sullivand@missouri.edu

OR register online here: https://forms.office.com/r/yvxFfWJPTP

Wednesdays, June 14, 2023, thru August 2, 2023
9:30 am to 12:00 pm

NOTE: Class will not meet on July 5, 2023