Hallmark Health offers Chronic Pain Self-Management Program

Is living with chronic pain affecting your life? Chronic pain may cause sleep loss, increased stress and loss of motivation around everyday activities. Learn to manage pain and continue living a fulfilling life through Hallmark Health System’s Chronic Pain Self-Management Program. The program is free and open to adults of all ages with a primary diagnosis of pain and/or their caregivers.

Learn strategies developed and tested by researchers including ways to:

• Deal with problems such as frustration, fatigue, isolation and poor sleep

• Exercise appropriately to maintain strength, flexibility and endurance

• Use medications appropriately

• Communicate effectively with family, friends and health professionals

• Eat healthy

• Pace activities and rest

• Evaluate new treatments

The program will be held on Wednesdays from Aug. 27 to Oct. 1 from 9:30 a.m. to 12 noon at Lawrence Memorial Hospital of Medford, Gallagher Conference Room. Registration is required and space is limited. Call Joya Pezzuto at 781-338-7823 to register.