COPING
- Goal & Mission Statement
Our
goal is to provide a friendly, caring
and
ongoing support facility for any person in the locality suffering with
the debilitating effects of chronic pain.
Unfortunately
it
is recognized that in many cases chronic pain is untreatable.
Therefore the group has been established in order to provide
holistic support for chronic
pain sufferers
in learning how to manage or cope with their pain. This
will be achieved by providing a non-threatening and
non-discriminatory network of support for sufferers, families,
friends and carers - whereby they are enabled to ventilate any
concerns, anxieties and worries over their condition and treatment.
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To
attempt to improve the quality of life for chronic pain sufferers
(and their
families and partners) in the locality of Derbyshire (and surrounding areas).
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To
provide ongoing support and assistance to chronic pain sufferers
within this locality.
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To
promote the principle that
living with chronic pain is a skill, and therefore
something which has to be learnt.
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To
promote and to maintain links with Southern Derbyshire Pain Management
Programmes and encourage discussion regarding any issues of concern.
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To
provide up to date and easily accessible information on chronic
pain, including such issues as medical advances and alternative issues.
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To
support chronic pain sufferers through friendship, counselling
and a ‘buddy system’.
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To
promote activities to meet the physical and
social needs of chronic pain sufferers.
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To
create an environment where chronic pain sufferers have the
opportunity to learn more about their pain.
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To
educate the general public about the needs of chronic pain sufferers.
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To
act as an appeal group on behalf of our members.
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To
obtain
views and feedback on this website.
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To
provide up to date information for chronic pain sufferers on
benefit issues.
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To
continue the Southern Derbyshire Pain Management Programme aim of encouraging people to
take more control and responsibility for their problems and
to move from 'patient to person’.
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To
enable and encourage people to function optimally, by educating them to understand
'chronic pain' and the
issues it brings with it.
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To
develop an understanding of chronic pain and its effect through education, body awareness and ergonomics.
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To
increase the range and level of chronic pain sufferers daily activity.
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To
improve how people cope with chronic pain by the teaching of simple
relaxation techniques.
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To
reduce the emotional consequences of chronic pain.
