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Welcome to My Tool Box!

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My Tool Box is a free 6-week program for individuals living with chronic disease and their loved ones. The program is designed to teach people the skills they need to live well with chronic health conditions such diabetes, heart disease, asthma, arthritis, cancer, MS, muscular dystrophy, stroke, hypertension, and chronic pain. These fun, practical and interactive workshops emphasize coping strategies and practical skills such as:

 
  • Managing your symptoms
  • Techniques for reducing stress
  • Dealing with difficult emotions such as fear, anger, frustration, and depression
  • Establishing good exercise and nutrition routines for maintaining and improving strength
  • Learning and practicing relaxation techniques
  • Optimally managing medication use
  • Communicating effectively with your health care team and loved ones
  • Managing pain and fatigue
  • How to evaluate treatment options
  • Goal setting and problem solving

Spring is here!  The next session of My Tool Box, in English and in French, will resume in May 2013. 

These are the English courses:

 Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Pain; Thursdays from 10:00 - 12:30 at 2155 Guy St.  May 9th- June 13

These are the French Courses:

Comment vivre en santé avec une maladie chronique - Tuesdays from 10:00 - 12:30 at 2155 Guy St. May 7- June 11

Comment vivre en santé avec une douleur chronique - Tuesdays from 1:30 - 4:00  at 2155 Guy St. May 7- June 11

To register or for more information, please contact:

Patricia Kearns or Diana Braia, Program Coordinators
Telephone: 514-934-1934 ext 71585 Fax: 514-934-4413
Email: mytoolbox.mni@mcgill.ca

Or

Dr. Deborah Radcliffe-Branch, Director
Telephone: 514-934-1934 ext 71584 Fax: 514-934-4413


My Tool Box is the Chronic Disease Management Program (CDSMP) developed at Stanford University and is now offered in more than 9 languages throughout the world. Trained and certified volunteers who have chronic diseases themselves facilitate the workshops. More than two decades of research shows that CDSMP can make a real difference; participants’ who complete the workshop often feel less fatigue and pain, have fewer emergency room visits and hospital stays. Many people find they have higher energy levels, use better coping strategies, and feel greater confidence when communicating with health care professionals.

 

 

 

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