Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Back Pain Clinic Success
Dr Saul Bloxham has won £15,000 funding for a Back Pain Clinic
The low back pain physical activity programme is a 6-week group programme designed to educate / help patients with low back pain to exercise safely. It is delivered in conjunction with Mount Gould Hospital Plymouth and is part of a broader low back pain service ran by GPs, osteopaths and Behavioural Cognitive Therapists (we’re the exercise referral bit)
The project has run as a pilot for 2 years and following its effectiveness in getting people back to work & reduced patients' use of NHS services, has been funded to the tune of 15k to expand for 2009/10
Students assist in the delivery of the programme which enables us to create both a social group amongst the patients and the necessary individual ‘break out’ one-to-one sessions with the students. Next year we intend to run 6 cohorts which will total 90 patients.
The low back pain physical activity programme is a 6-week group programme designed to educate / help patients with low back pain to exercise safely. It is delivered in conjunction with Mount Gould Hospital Plymouth and is part of a broader low back pain service ran by GPs, osteopaths and Behavioural Cognitive Therapists (we’re the exercise referral bit)
The project has run as a pilot for 2 years and following its effectiveness in getting people back to work & reduced patients' use of NHS services, has been funded to the tune of 15k to expand for 2009/10
Students assist in the delivery of the programme which enables us to create both a social group amongst the patients and the necessary individual ‘break out’ one-to-one sessions with the students. Next year we intend to run 6 cohorts which will total 90 patients.
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