Live Well Wakefield provides a range of self-management courses and workshops offering self-help tools and techniques to help you manage your wellbeing whilst living with any long term conditions. Courses and workshops are run across the Wakefield and Five Towns area.
Referral made by surgery for support:
- Suffers with Fibromyalgia which is a condition that causes widespread pain and extreme tiredness
- No longer able to tolerate pain medication
- Currently on sick leave due to their health condition; they have a demanding job and feel unable to return to work, but are worried about the financial implications
- Unable to carry out daily tasks
- Lack of mobility due to pain and fatigue; struggle to manage the stairs at home
Intervention:
- Referral to MYTherapy (Mid Yorkshire Hospital trust physiotherapy services) to assess if any aids and equipment would be beneficial
- Discussed a general self-management course, reports it sounds similar to a workshop they attend that was arrange through the pain clinic, however will attend the general self-management course
- Information about Carers Wakefield was provided and support from Disability Information and Advice Line (DIAL) was discussed.
Impact of Intervention
6 week review:
- Assessment had been completed by MYTherapy and additional equipment has been installed in the patients home
- Application for Personal Independance Payment (PIP) with support from DIAL submitted
6 month review:
- Now receiving PIP with support from DIAL
- Blue Badge application approved
- Attending 4/6 general self-management courses.
- Reports enjoying time in the garden during the pandemic
- Not worrying about having to return to work and can now concentrate on their health.