CRPS SUPPORT GROUPS
Burning Nights CRPS Support will be starting regular CRPS support groups beginning with a pilot group in Manchester city centre.
Our 1st support group will be held on FRIDAY 4th MARCH 2016 at 3 pm at the Manchester city centre offices of Irwin Mitchell solicitors. Living with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) can make you feel as if no-one knows or understands how you feel, as you are surrounded by friends and family who don’t have the condition. But by joining a face to face support group for CRPS, those feelings of being alone, isolated and vulnerable are what we want to change.
These regular monthly groups are there to give you help and support as CRPS sufferers and your carers, loved ones, family members and friends. If there are enough non sufferers we will be able to split up the 2 groups (non sufferers and sufferers) to allow you to be able to chat and get help from others just like you. One of the ways in which those who suffer with CRPS find help and relief is when you meet up with others in the same situation as yourselves. A self-help support group provides an opportunity for those meetings to occur.
We want to provide support to you all and to help you cope better with your condition; Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. Thee groups are there so you can share your problems, feelings, ideas and information with others who are undergoing similar experiences. But we can’t solve all of your problems, nor are they there to replace the services of a pain specialist, doctor or other health care professionals that may be involved in your care.
AIMS OF THE CRPS SUFFERERS SUPPORT GROUP
The aims of the CRPS support groups may change over time with your help, however we feel that our CRPS support groups are there:
- To enable CRPS sufferers to meet on a regular, monthly basis to provide mutual support
- To enable you as CRPS sufferers to meet others in a similar situation and to share your feelings and experiences
- To provide sufferers with an opportunity to learn more and understand about the condition, so you can educate yourself, family members, friends, work colleagues about CRPS
- To help provide you with emotional support and coping mechanisms
- To draw strength from other CRPS sufferers’ experiences
- To share information around care, healing and various treatments available
- To build a social network of other CRPS sufferers
- To improve the quality of your life living with CRPS
- To try to reduce isolation and vulnerability that comes with living with a chronic pain condition such as CRPS
Please be assured that confidentiality is very important to us at Burning Nights CRPS Support.
If we do have enough non-sufferers, then we can split the group into sufferers and non-sufferers to enable the carers, family members, friends and loved ones time to be able to talk and meet with others who are in a similar situation in caring for someone suffering with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS).
Are you interested in coming along to these regular monthly support group meetings? Yes? Why not get in touch and let us know you’re interested or you wish to come along to the 1st support group on FRIDAY 4th MARCH 2016 at 3 pm! Refreshments will be provided at the group, so no worries! Here are our contact details:
BURNING NIGHTS CRPS SUPPORT
Email: Support Group Email
Phone: 01663 795055
Facebook: www.facebook.com/chronicpainCRPS
Twitter: @victoriacrps
If you are wanting to come along to the CRPS Support Group Meeting on Friday 4th March at 3pm in Manchester please contact us and give us your details.
ADDRESS FOR MANCHESTER SUPPORT GROUP on FRIDAY 4th MARCH at 3pm
IRWIN MITCHELL SOLICITORS
BAUHAUS
ROSETTI PLACE
27 QUAY STREET
MANCHESTER
M3 4AW
If the group is successful then we will roll out the support group programme to the rest of the UK. If this is something that you would be interested in coming along to, please contact us either by email, contact us page or on social media. Please feel free to share our CRPS Support Groups blog on social media or on your own blog.
You’ve now read what the aims of a CRPS support group are and how we plan to help you, it’s your turn now – what do you think about joining other sufferers like yourself? These support group meetings can help you cope better and feel less isolated as you make connections with others facing similar challenges and experiences as yourself, so why not join us?
Last Updated: 25/01/2016
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