Northwest Missouri Regional Arthritis Center

View a schedule of upcoming classes, leader trainings, and meetings sponsored by the Northwest Missouri Regional Arthritis Center

Chronic Disease Self-Management Program

Arthritis Community Services will be holding a Free Chronic Disease Self-Management Program. This course is designed to give those living with a chronic illness the skills and information to manage their condition on a daily basis. The class will be held on Mondays for 6 consecutive weeks.

Location: Access II Independent Living Center 101 Industrial Parkway Gallatin, MO 64640

Dates: May 13, 20, 27 & June 3, 10 & 17

Times: 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

For more information or to sign up please contact Karen at Arthritis Community Services or Email Karen.dreyer@heartland-health.com

Northwest Missouri Regional Arthritis Center Success Story!

Here is a great story of success from the Northwest Missouri Regional Arthritis Center!  The story describes the success of collaboration and partnership the Northwest RAC has had with Heartland Health.

Check it out! 

The Arthritis Toolkit

The Arthritis Toolkit

People with arthritis can live a healthy life by actively managing the physical and emotional problems that come with their disease.  The Arthritis Toolkit does not provide cures or miracles.  Most types of arthritis cannot be cured.  Living a healthy life with a chronic disease is possible with good self-management.

                                                                                                                                                                 

The Kit includes the basic building blocks for each individual to use in constructing a personal approach to the management of the disease through exercise, pain management, and relaxation. It encourages goal-setting, action-planning, proactive thinking and acting ahead.  Each Kit contains the following resources:

• The Arthritis Helpbook
• Information Sheets briefly describing common problems and helpful solutions
• Self-Test that helps individuals identify the elements and set priorities for a personal self-management plan
• Action Plan description with instruction and examples for developing a unique plan
• Exercise Action Plan with hints and instruction on use of the other exercise and activity materials
• Relaxation CD and Exercise CDs
• All in one self-contained kit to which the individual can add their own materials

These are the elements that can help individuals design an individualized program to restore some degree of control over the effects of the disease on the body and activities. It is designed as a flexible set of elements that allows the individual, along with advice from a medical professional, to build a program that is uniquely helpful and that can be modified and expanded to suit the individual’s needs.

Contact the Arthritis Community Services (Northwest Regional Arthritis Center)

to check out The Arthritis Toolkit today.

 

(816) 271-7057

debbie.braby@heartland-health.com

www.moarthritis.org

 

OR

 

Contact your local Area Agency on Aging Senior Center

or Human Environmental Sciences Extension office.

 

Toolkits are available to check out. 

After completing the program, individuals may return the toolkit

or choose to purchase the materials for $25.00.

 

 

The Northwest Missouri Regional Arthritis Center (NWMRAC) is one of seven such regional centers established in Missouri. The center is designed to offer arthritis education and outreach programs to people with arthritis, community members, allied health professionals, and physicians. NWRAC is located at 802 N. Riverside, Suite 225, St. Joseph, MO 64507.

The NWMRAC serves a 12-county area including: Nodaway, Andrew, Buchanan, Atchison, Holt, Gentry, Harrison, Worth, Dekalb, Daviess, Caldwell and Clinton counties.

The mission of the Missouri Arthritis Project and the Regional Arthritis Centers is to reduce the burden of rheumatic disease by promoting optimal health and quality of life for all Missourians affected by arthritis, rheumatic diseases and related musculoskeletal conditions through prevention, early intervention, education, service and collaboration.

Services Available

• Free Information - Facts about, and advice on how to cope with arthritis are available at the various literature sites which are maintained in the area.

• Joint Venture Newsletter

• Joint Venture Library

• Self Help Aids - At cost

• Speaker’s Bureau - Featuring professionals who will speak on arthritis-related topics for clubs, community organizations or religious gatherings.

• Community Education - Conducted by physicians and other healthcare professionals who work daily with people suffering from arthritis.

• Education Seminars - Available for physicians and allied health professionals.

• Group Activity Classes - Adult and child water exercises, PACE, Arthritis, Fibromyalgia, and Chronic Disease self-management courses.

• Referrals - For early diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitative care, and other appropriate community resources.

• Arthritis Support Groups - Providing support for individuals as well as for families of persons living with arthritis.

• Juvenile Arthritis - Quarterly Pediatric Rheumatology Clinic; Carol Lindsley, MD, Pediatric Rheumatologist.

• Patee Market Healthcare Center - An indigent clinic providing health benefits for people with arthritis.

• Reading Collection – NWRAC has many materials available to help you learn more about arthritis and related conditions.