ESCAPE-Pain

Enabling Self-Management and Coping with Arthritic Pain using exercise

For people living with arthritic pain in the the knee, hip or back

Escape-Pain is a group rehab programme for people living with joint pain that uses education and coping strategies alongside exercise.  It helps you to understand your condition, teaches you simple things you can help yourselves with, and takes you through a progressive exercise programme so that you can learn how to cope with the pain better.

Here are the details for the delivery of this programme in 2024 at Bromsgrove Sport and Leisure Centre and online.

Programme details:

• 6 weeks
• 12 sessions
• FREE
• Meeting days Mondays and Wednesdays
• 2:15pm to 3.15pm
• Programmes running throughout 2024

THE TWO SESSIONS WILL TAKE PLACE REMOTELY COMMENCING SATURDAY 20TH APRIL:

• SATURDAYS 10AM
• TUESDAYS 6PM

NB. TWO SESSIONS A WEEK FOR 6 WEEKS!

Enabling Self-management and Coping with Arthritic Pain using Exercise

ESCAPE-pain is a rehabilitation programme for people with chronic joint pain, that integrates educational self-management and coping strategies with an exercise regimen individualised for each participant. It helps people understand their condition, teaches them simple things they can help themselves with, and takes them through a progressive exercise programme so they learn how to cope with pain better. 

Robust shows that ESCAPE-pain:

• Reduces pain
• Improves physical function
• Improves the psychosocial consequences of pain
• Reduces healthcare and utilisation costs.

You can access the ESCAPE-pain website here.  

Redditch Borough Council are working with the Health Innovation Network to bring these evidence based sessions to your locality. 

How do I sign up?

We are currenlty in the process of planning to deliver this programme throughout 2024.  The next programme is due to start in February 2024, with another following in June 2024.

To secure your place on either of these programmes please complete our online registration form

As a Local Authority we collect, hold and process information supplied by you in accordance with the Data Protection Act, to allow us to provide services effectively. You can find out more regarding this and our privacy notice here.

For further information or to register your interest please contact Hayley on 01527 881404 or you can email Hayley direct

I can take the necessary details over the phone, it will only take a couple of minutes.

credited to: Lucas Darby, Jordan Brown, Will Jarvis