Objectives
- Teach participants how to achieve a better emotional, physical, and social balance by providing strategies to better cope with chronic pain and regain control of their lives.
- Promote physical activity and encourage participants to stay active to improve their physical well-being.
- Leave participants with a toolbox full of resources for better pain management.
Eligibility Criteria
- Have fibromyalgia or chronic pain.
- Be a member of Fibromyalgia Laval.
This program has brought me together with other women who share my problems.
At last, I was no longer alone. No longer alone in facing, day after day, this highly misunderstood condition.
-S.V.
Program Description
The pain management program is offered in two phases: one in the spring and one in the fall, with each phase lasting 10 weeks, at two sessions per week. This program will help you explore several possible ways of reducing pain and improving your quality of life through:
- Informative, therapeutic, and creative workshops.
- Adapted physical activity.
Phase 1 includes: occupational therapy, a creative workshop (The gratitude notebook), neuro-linguistic programming, and client-centred counselling.
Phase 2 includes: Kinesiology, a creative workshop (The gratitude notebook), neuro-linguistic programming, and client-centred counselling.
Group Counselling
In this workshop, the therapist encourages participants to recognize their fears and emotions and teaches them how to transform them to increase their self-esteem and be happier.
Workshop (The Gratitude Notebook)
This workshop offers an immersion in the practice of gratitude, offering participants a space to discover and deepen the use of the gratitude notebook. Through practical exercises, discussions and moments of personal reflection, this workshop aims to encourage awareness of the small and large things for which we can be grateful, and to learn how this act can nourish our daily well-being.
Occupational Therapy
The occupational therapist will address the concept of quality of life and discuss ways to engage in activities that are important to you without experiencing increased pain and fatigue, which could lead to forced rest and inactivity.
Kinesiology
Two sessions of 2 hours each. Phase 1 without exercises. Topics include regaining control of your life and self-esteem, learning how to manage pain, escaping isolation and making friends, and raising awareness of the importance of moving and maintaining an active and rewarding lifestyle. Phase 2 includes physical activities.
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)
Other Pain Management Programs
Other pain management programs may give you different tools to help you better control your pain. Jewish Rehabilitation Hospital (Laval):
- You must be a resident of Laval
- Program available in both English and French
Le Bouclier Rehabilitation Centre (Lanaudière)