- Information on the benefits of Quitting Smoking
- Find out more about Food and Nutrition
- The NHS 12 week weight management programme can help you work towards a healthier weight
- Looking after your Mental Wellbeing
What can I do to help myself if I have pain?
Most musculoskeletal pain can be helped by improving your general health and wellbeing, as well as increasing your physical activity levels.
Here you will find links to self-help information for health improvement, physical activity and managing your pain.
Here you will find links to self-help information for health improvement, physical activity and managing your pain.
Health and Wellbeing
Physical Activity
- Active Scotland has guidelines for recommended physical activity levels and advice on how to get more active
(You can click on the image to open a pdf for those using screen reading software)
- Read more about the surprising health benefits of walking
- Your guide to Walking for Health
- Free, volunteer-led Health Walks are available throughout Tayside: More information for Angus, Perthshire and Dundee
- Moving Medicine provides online practical guides and support to help get you moving for your health
- NHS Fitness Studio provides instructor-led exercise videos which you can do in your own time from home
- In Angus - Be Active...Live Well provides a range of activities and supports people to become more active. You can self-refer or be referred by your healthcare professional
- A range of activities are available for Active Wellbeing from Dundee Leisure, most need a membership but ask your Health Professional about the Active for Life Referral scheme
- Get Out Get Active (GOGA) is dedicated to promoting fun & free physical activity opportunities in Tayside and encouraging people of all abilities to be more active together
Pain and Injury Management
NHS Inform offers self-management advice around how you can manage your symptoms for your condition
Click the image below of the area where you have pain and it will take you to the NHS Inform self-help page
Click the image below of the area where you have pain and it will take you to the NHS Inform self-help page
Waiting Well
Even though you may be put on a waiting list to see a healthcare specialist or to get health and social care services, there are still things you can do to help support your health and wellbeing while you wait. This site has information to help you do that. This includes information on your physical and mental health, as well as advice about practical issues like money worries.
Chronic or Persistent Pain
Chronic or persistent pain is pain that lasts longer than 12 weeks, or beyond the natural healing time and may be unexplained. NHS Inform Chronic Pain is an excellent resource to help you to understand why this might happen, what you can do to help and to guide you through changes that you can make to help you live well with chronic pain.
Digital Exercise Classes
The link below is for our online digital exercise classes designed by our musculoskeletal physiotherapists which you may find helpful.