Northeast Missouri Regional Arthritis Center

Diabetes Self Management Program

FREE diabetes health class! 

Come and learn useful tips and strategies for dealing with diabetes.

This six week program can help you control your blood sugar and become better at managing other diabetes symptoms.

 

WHEN: Every Monday from 2:00-4:00 PM

from June 12, 2017 - July 17, 2017.

 

WHERE: Clarity Healthcare

141 Communications Dr. Hannibal, MO 63401

 

For more info contact Cindy Epperson: 573-603-1460

Hope to see you there!

Walk With Ease!

Arthritis Community Services will be holding a Walk With Ease workshop at the following location, dates & time.

Location:  Meadowview Residential Care

                   101 Far West Drive

                   St. Joseph, MO  64506

Dates: Mondays & Tuesdays, June 5 - July 18, 2017

Times:  2:00 - 3:00 p.m.

Feel Better Now!

                                 

                                     “I was tired. I hurt all the time. It felt like my health

                             problems were telling me what I could and couldn’t do.

                                                Feel Better Now workshops helped!

                                            I’ve put life back in my life.”

 

Feel Better Now is a FUN six week workshop series that will

help you to:

• Learn to set goals that are doable
• Work with others
• Find support and solutions to problem
• Make daily tasks easier
• Relax and manage stress
• Work with your health care team
• FREE giveaways each week!

Date: Each Wednesday, April 12– May 17, 2017

Time: 1:30-3:30 pm

Location: Take Root Café, 114 W. Harrison St. Kirksville, MO

 

Contact the LIFE Ability Center for more

information or to reserve your spot.

Phone: 660-627-6291

Email: lifecenter@sb40life.org 

Walk Your Way to Wellness!

Walk With Ease--Guide to walking for better health, improved fitness, and less pain!

The Walk With Ease workbook is full of information to help you manage your pain and fatigue through a simple walking plan to fit your needs.  This program is beneficial for anyone who wants to make walking a daily habit--especially if you have diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, or other problems that cause pain and fatigue.  Research shows that walking is great for your joints and also improves the health of heart, lungs, and bones. 

The Walk With Ease plan is to create a fitness program so you can:

• Get motivated to get fit.
• Follow simple warm-up and cool-down stretches.
• Walk safely and comfortably.
• Keep track of progress with a walking diary.
• Improve flexibility, strength, and stamina.
• Fight the "I-don't-want-to-exercise" blues.
• Reduce pain and feel better.

Request a FREE Walk with Ease book and start walking today!

The Walk With Ease book is available FREE to Missouri residents.  Click here to request your book and improve your health today.

Or contact the Northeast Missouri Regional Arthritis Center at 660-626-2049, email nemrac@atsu.edu or go to webpage: http://www.formstack.com/forms/?1626922-qUjXVpTKPG. 

Want walking companions?  Walk With Ease groups are available in some areas.

 

 

Got Pain? Fatigue? Arthritis? Fibromyalgia? Osteoporosis?

Looking for Answers?

Request the Arthritis Toolkit online and have it delivered to your front door!

Create your own wellness program with simple tips from the Arthritis Toolkit. 

Arthritis can’t be cured, but you can take steps toward living a healthier, happier, more comfortable life.  Learn how to manage health and reduce symptoms like pain and fatigue. 

The “tools” in the kit include:

• The Arthritis Helpbook
• Relaxation and exercise CDs
• Instructions to make your own Action Plan.
• Illustrated exercises: create your own program.

Click here to request an Arthritis Toolkit and take control of your health today. Or, contact the Northeast Missouri Regional Arthritis Center at 660-626-2049,  nemrac@atsu.edu or go to: http://www.formstack.com/forms/?1858981-qUjXVpTKPG

The Arthritis Toolkit is available to Missouri residents on loan for 6 weeks, then simply return in the mailer provided.  

Or, check out the toolkit locally--

Local libraries in Northeast Missouri and local health department have Arthritis Toolkits available for checkout.  Find great tips, tools, and ideas to manage your symptoms and live a healthier life! 

Northeast Missouri Regional Arthritis Center Success Stories!

 

To read Joan's story, click here!

To read Kathy's story, click here!

Program Schedule: Northeast Missouri Regional Arthritis Center

Join a Program Today: Group exercises and Living a Healthy Life Programs

• Exercisce programs by location and date click here.

•  Living a Healthy Life Programs by location and date click here.

NEW--Live Like Your Life Depends on It--click here 

 

• Living a Healthy Life with Diabetes

• Be a leader! Leader Trainings by program, location, and date click here.

Worksite Wellness Resources:

• Walk With Ease Program Books are available to Missouri residents for FREE. Walking is nature's pain manager. Research shows that walking is great for joints and also helps improve the health of heart, lungs, and bones. Click here to request a book and take steps to improve your health today. See blog below for more information. Contact the Northeast Missouri Regional Arthritis Center at 660-626-2049 or email nemrac@atsu.edu.
  

• Arthritis Home Study: Got arthritis? Take steps to manage your health, reduce your symptoms and feel better.  Click here to borrow an Arthritis Toolkit. Employees learn and practice health management to feel better and do more!  Contact the Northeast Missouri Regional Arthritis Center at 660-626-2049 or email nemrac@atsu.edu.

Take Step One to Better Health:

• We'd love to hear from you. Connect with Northeast Missouri Regional Arthritis Center. We're about healthy living, whether you have arthritis or not. Join a group, order a home program, or volunteer! Complete the electronic form. Print it. Mail it to the Northeast RAC.

  Electronic form click here:  Take the first step!

  Programa interés - Dar el paso!

• Email it if you like. First type in the information, save it to your computer, then send as an attachment to: nemrac@atsu.edu.  Need help emailing? Contact moarthritis@gmail.com.

 

 

What We Do

The Northeast Missouri Regional Arthritis Center provides health education, programs, and information to community groups, organizations, classes, professionals, or individuals. It is one of seven regional centers established in Missouri by the Department of Health.

Counties served by the Northeast Center are: Clark, Lewis, Marion, Ralls, Scotland, Knox, Shelby, Schuyler, Adair, Macon, Putnam, Sullivan, Linn, Mercer, Grundy, and Livingston.

The programs are designed to promote optimal quality of life for people living with long-term conditions.

• Exercise programs - Arthritis Foundation exercise class listings are linked to our site.
• Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Disease  - The Stanford University Patient Education Research Center Program is for those with arthritis, diabetes, heart disease, asthma or other chronic conditions.
• Free arthritis education pamphlets are available for health fairs or other displays. Topics include: feeling better with exercise, disease facts, medications, managing fatigue, stress, or pain, nutrition, and protecting joints.
• Community education - Free health-related programs or displays for clubs, community organizations, religious groups, and health fairs.
• Volunteers: Leader Training for evidence-based courses: Arthritis Foundation Exercise and Chronic Disease Self-Management Programs. Ask about leadership opportunities.
• Lending Library - The NEMO RAC office has a limited collection of books, periodicals, and videos available.