Latest 'Healthy Wednesday' advice from the Hywel Dda Health Board
Latest 'Healthy Wednesday' advice from the Hywel Dda Health Board -
Caring about back care this Healthy Wednesday
This Healthy Wednesday and Back Care Awareness Week, we are focusing on back care for carers.
This year’s Back Care Awareness Week, held from now until October 11, focuses on caring for carers.
Caring for others can cause problems in our own health, which are very often ignored.
Looking after someone may involve helping them with physical tasks, such as getting in and out of beds, baths or chairs.
Without advice and training in safe techniques, the carers may be putting themselves at risk of strain or injury.
Consequently, more than 70% of the UK’s unpaid carers suffer from back pain.
Carers are also at greater risk of developing chronic pain, which is disabling in a third of cases and life-long for the majority.
If you know or work with carers, or are a carer yourself, help and advice can be found at www.backcare.org.uk
If you look after someone and need some health advice or just a chat, pop along to one of the forthcoming health fairs for carers being held in Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire.
These free events will focus on exercise, local support and services and care advice as well as free health checks and alternative therapies.
Free lunch will also be provided at both events.
The first event takes place on Saturday October 12 between 10am and 3pm at Merlin’s Bridge Welfare Hall, Haverfordwest.
Contact Julie Campbell, Carers Officer on 01437 769422 for further information such as transport or replacement care requests.
The Carmarthen carers’ health fair will take place at Carmarthen Leisure Centre between 10am and 3pm on Saturday November 2.
For further information call the Carmarthenshire Carers Service on 0300 0200 002.
For more information and resources on how to keep yourself healthy, visit www.hywelddahb.wales.nhs.uk/healthy-wednesday
Caring about back care this Healthy Wednesday
This Healthy Wednesday and Back Care Awareness Week, we are focusing on back care for carers.
This year’s Back Care Awareness Week, held from now until October 11, focuses on caring for carers.
Caring for others can cause problems in our own health, which are very often ignored.
Looking after someone may involve helping them with physical tasks, such as getting in and out of beds, baths or chairs.
Without advice and training in safe techniques, the carers may be putting themselves at risk of strain or injury.
Consequently, more than 70% of the UK’s unpaid carers suffer from back pain.
Carers are also at greater risk of developing chronic pain, which is disabling in a third of cases and life-long for the majority.
If you know or work with carers, or are a carer yourself, help and advice can be found at www.backcare.org.uk
If you look after someone and need some health advice or just a chat, pop along to one of the forthcoming health fairs for carers being held in Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire.
These free events will focus on exercise, local support and services and care advice as well as free health checks and alternative therapies.
Free lunch will also be provided at both events.
The first event takes place on Saturday October 12 between 10am and 3pm at Merlin’s Bridge Welfare Hall, Haverfordwest.
Contact Julie Campbell, Carers Officer on 01437 769422 for further information such as transport or replacement care requests.
The Carmarthen carers’ health fair will take place at Carmarthen Leisure Centre between 10am and 3pm on Saturday November 2.
For further information call the Carmarthenshire Carers Service on 0300 0200 002.
For more information and resources on how to keep yourself healthy, visit www.hywelddahb.wales.nhs.uk/healthy-wednesday
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