By Chris Brown

Free, in-person and online

Free workshops on managing chronic pain upcoming

Sep 11, 2022 | 12:00 PM

Another round of Better Choices, Better Health workshops designed to help participants manage their chronic pain will start later this month.

Alberta Health Services is offering the free, six-week self-management classes in-person in Medicine Hat and online through Zoom for anyone living anywhere in southern Alberta.

AHS says new sections have been added to this program including what is pain, mind-body connection, action plans and problem-solving, fatigue and getting a good night’s sleep, identifying values for pacing, worst-case thinking, moving easy program, healthy eating for pain and working with your health care team.

In-person workshops will run from 1-3:30 p.m. weekly on Wednesdays from Sept. 21 to Oct. 26. Classes will be held at the Medicine Hat Legion, 702 Second St SE.

Zoom workshops will run 1-3:30 p.m. weekly Tuesdays from Sept. 13 to Oct. 18.

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South Zone residents can register by calling 403-529-8969 or toll-free 1-866-795-9709. Register under the name Better Choices, Better Health. Visit Alberta Healthy Living Program – South Zone | Alberta Health Services for more information about AHLP programs in the South Zone

The workshops are led by AHS health-care staff and volunteer leaders who live with long-term health conditions of their own.