The Self Management Toolkit.

Who is self-management for?

• Do you do more on good days and less on bad days?
• Are you an overachiever, doing more than you have to?
• Are you a people pleaser?
• Do you have a problem saying NO to others when you are asked to do things?

Did you answer yes to any of the three questions? If you did then the Self-Management Toolkit could be for you.

*For Healthcare Workers

The Pain & Self-Management Toolkit support the NHS England Supported self-management: Summary guide

Future up-and-coming Pain and SelfMgt Toolkit events for 2023

What self-management isn’t

Self-management is NOT about cutting you loose to figure stuff out by yourself. Self-management is about working in partnership with your healthcare team, family, friends and work colleagues.

I have had long term health conditions most of my life. I’m 69 as I write this and over the years, in one way or another I have had to adapt and manage them. The long-term health condition I got stuck on was pain and I lost 7yrs of my life to it. I needed some extra help and in 1996 I got myself on a pain management programme in London, called INPUT. The programme gave me the life-long skills, tools and most importantly the confidence to get back on track. Since 1997, I’ve not had to take any pain medication.

The Toolkit isn’t supposed to be the last word in self-management, but just to get you started. Self-management is all about taking action, getting you back in the driving seat and on with your life, in spite of your conditions.

Is self-managing a long-term health condition easy? Well it’s like most things, you have to work at it. I’m not an academic guy, but if I can do it, then I know others can as well.

Here is a short video I speak about my pain journey and recovery.

There is digital copy of the Self-Management Toolkit here.

Future up-and-coming Pain and SelfMgt Toolkit events for 2023

Introducing Katie Knapton

This Toolkit is brought to you by Pain Toolkit author, Pete Moore & Physiotherapist Katie Knapton; who has a special interest in the management of long-term illnesses and is dedicated to promoting the supported self-management message.

Katie is a chartered physiotherapist with over 30 years of musculoskeletal experience within the NHS and her own private practice. She also runs a successful online physio clinic, Physio Fast Online providing accessible physiotherapy worldwide. 

Katie trained at Kings College, London followed by 2 years at Guys Hospital after which Katie specialised at St. Georges Hospital Tooting for 9 years working alongside Orthopaedic Consultants, running a team of physiotherapists in the busy hospital clinic setting.