Useful Information

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Below are a list of links that will help newcomers and experienced forum users alike. This list will be added to and amended as time goes on so please check back for more info every once in a while. If you have any problems with the links then please get in touch with one of the mods. Info for new members.

Benefits/Sickness/Disabled Rights Info

Benefits articles from FMA UK
Guide to Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
Medical Assessment; what to expect
Health and Social Care Assessments
About Blue Badge Parking Scheme/Info
Access to Work
Benefits Calculator
Benefits for Young People
Child Maintenance
Doing Work Differently/Booklet
DDA-Disability Discrimination Act
DDA Guidance for FM/CFS - Link was broken but we think this is the correct replacement.
DLA-Disability Living Allowance
Disability Benefits
Equality & Human Rights Commission
Radar key disabled toilets scheme
Shop Mobility UK

IB-Incapacity Benefit
Incapacity Benefit Handbook
IB-Incapacity Benefit/Permitted Work
Medical Certification/Sickness
Sick Pay Rights
Statutory Sick Pay (SSP)
Statutory Sick Pay (SSP)
Guide to ESA
Advice to GPs completing DLA and AA Factual Reports 6 Page & 1 Page Reference
housing advice
toll concessions at bridges and tunnels for blue badge holders
help with health care costs
Incapacity Benefit Applications
Useful info when completing a DLA claim
Tribunal Hints and Tips
The Tribunal's Decision. What happens next?

FM & Coping

Coping plan
Fibronomics
Guide for relatives
Help for Young Carers
Managing Fibrofog
Self Help Leaflets on a Variety of Topics
Sex
Occupational Therapy Contact Information
The Grief Cycle (Select Canada wide from the menu and you will then get to the link.)
DVLA Medical Guidelines
Driving with FM
the Spoon Theory
A Simple Explanation of FM
Letter to Normals
Juvenile primary fibromyalgia syndrome (JP-FMS)
Understanding Fibromyalgia
Disabled Gear
Coping Successfully with FM (Mel's thread)
Self management Skills and Techniques

FM & Other Conditions

FM & CFS-Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
FM & MPS-Myofacial Pain Syndrome
Raynauds' Phenomenon
Costochondritis
TMJ
IBS
joint hypermobility

Fibromyalgia Glossary

Glossary of FM terms. - let us know if we should add more.


Pregnancy

Dr. Pellegrino's advice for excercising with FM  
Pregnancy and Newborns
FM Patient's Journey to Motherhood
FM & Pregnancy1
FM & Pregnancy 2
FM & Pregnancy 3
FaMily Magazine has a regular column. June '08 issue featured "Pregnancy and Beyond-With Midwife Denyse Moore"

FM & Other Useful Info

What Does FMA UK do?New
Action on Pain
EULAR GUIDELINES-European League Against Rheumatism
FMAUK Information Booklet-About Newly Diagnosed
FM Facts
FM/FAQ’s-Frequently Asked Questions
FM Tips
FM & Travel Tips
Interactive FM Tutorial
Manual Tender Points Survey
Travelling Abroad
What is Fibromyalgia
Link to your MP and Parliament
Fibromyalgia; Favt Vs Fiction

Medicine & Doctors Information

Focus Your Meds Leaflet
Understanding Meds Leaflet
Fibromyalgia: The Physician's Curse?
Preparing For a Doctor's Appointment
GP Medical Pack


Medical Reading/Info

Dental Information
Find a Consultant Guide
Requesting a Second Opinion
Medical Abbreviations
What is NICE?
What is Evidence Based Medicine?
What are Clinical Guidelines?

Men with FM

FM & Men
Mens Stories
Men's Zone Info Page

Miscellaneous

Cinema Cards


What is?

CBT–Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
CT Scan-Computerised Tomography
EEG–Electroencephalogram
EMG-Electromyography
GERD/GORD-Gastro-Oesophageal Reflux Disease
MRI Scan-Magnetic Resonance Imaging
What Occupational Therapy Assessments are
What aids and adaptations are

Please Check Back for Updates:  

Thanks to peggy and the rest of the mods for putting the list together and checking it.

Edit by Des

some links that point to the main website will be broken due to the site update. Please report them and they will be sorted.

[DesQuinn]

Edit info below

Edited: Updated...Medical Reading/Info section added...
Edit: added pregnancy and newborns
Edit: added GERD/GORD
EDIT: added GP notes on DLA
Edit: added Dental Information
Edit: added Statutory Sick Pay & Sick Pay Rights
Edit: added Access to work, Radar Key's for disabled toilets, & shop mobility
Edit: added Shelter Uk housing advice
Edit: added Incapacity Benefit Handbook
Edit: added toll concessions for blue badge holders
Edit: added help with health care costs
Edit: added what OT Assessments are & what aids and adaptations are
Edit: added OT contact information
Edit: updated NICE & Evidence Based Medicine links
Edit: added Action on Pain
Edit: replaced Disability Human Rights Commission with Equality & Human Rights Commission
Edit: added The Grief Cycle
Edit: added Manual Tender Point Survey
Edit: added DDA Guidance FM/CFS
Edit: added Fibronomics
Edit: added FM & Pregnancy 3
Edit: DQ - Added Pregnancy section and a couple of extra onsite links
Edit: added 'Doing Work Differently'/Booklet
Edit: updated FM Facts link as 'file not found'
EDIT: DQ - Added ESA link -28/10/08
Edit: Added Medical Certification/Sickness info
Edit: (10/11/2008) - Changed Medicine category and added Fibromyalgia: The Physician's Curse?
Edit: Added 'What is FM' & a Miscellaneous section, adding Cinema Cards link
Edit: Added 'Requesting a Second Opinion' under Medical Reading/Info
Edit: Added 'Managing Fibrofog' under FM & Coping
Edit: Added Disable Gear website under FM and Coping
Edit: Added Understanding Fibromyalgia under FM and Coping
Edit: (11/09/2009) - Added What does FMA UK do?
Edit: Added Fibromyalgia: Fact Vs Fiction 25/11/09
Edit: Added Coping Successfully with FM (Mel's thread)
Edit: Added Self Management Skills and Techniques (Peggy's link)

[DesQuinn]

This is what is sent out to all new members when they register and it will be of use to new members that have joined before today as well.

***** Useful Information for new members *****

Please review the information below as you may find it useful as a new member of the FMA UK forum:

Useful Info
What Is FM?
Fibromyalgia Glossary
Young People with FM
Family and Carers

We are really glad that you have decided to join the forum and hope that you find information, support and fun in equal amounts. If you have any questions about the forum then please get in touch with a moderator and they will help you out.

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