[van-announce] People's Health Series: Back & Neck Pain Workshop

[David Hendry]

The People's Health Series:

*Physical Activity for Back & Neck Pain*


*Thursday November 27th **6:30 – 8:30 PM** *

*Organizing Centre for Social and Economic Justice, **672 E. Broadway
(at **Fraser
St**.) *


Do you suffer from back and neck pain as a result of work or other injuries?


Come and share your experiences and learn physical activities for
strengthening and stretching to relieve back and neck pain.



Presentation by David Hendry

Registered Kinesiologist and Personal Trainer

*This workshop is free, and snacks, childcare and bus fare are available.*

In each People's Health Series Workshop you can:

- Share your experiences of health and challenges that you our your family
face
- Discuss how poverty or lack of services effects your health
- Learn relevant health tips and skills and ask questions of a health
professional
- Brainstorm potential community health projects or campaigns to address
these issues

What is the People's Health Series?
The People's Health Series is a series of 7 workshops to share experiences
of health and learn basic health information and skills which are relevant
to the lives of working-class people.

We know that health is not just a matter of personal choices. For many of
us, health is sacrificed in the non-stop task of trying to get the basic
necessities for ourselves and our families.

This is the case for the majority of the world's people who struggle to
fulfill basic needs.  At the same time rent, food, gas, education, and
transit are all increasing in cost while public services are being cut. The
stress of long hours, poverty, discrimination, lack of control and lack of
resources is a major cause of ill-health.  Today it's clear that achieving
health for all people requires us to fight for broad social and economic
change.

While our health to a large part depends on larger factors, we also owe it
to ourselves and our families to take the best care of our health that we
know how to.  Often times, basic health practices and knowledge can improve
the quality of our lives and make us better able to take on the challenges
of fighting for social justice.

We envision the People's Health Series to be a forum for working class
people to share their experiences of health, learn valuable health
information from health professionals, and develop an understanding of how
we can work together to win better wages, improved public services, and
greater power to determine our own health and development.  We believe in
the power of people to come together, share their ideas and find solutions
to the problems that effect us all.

-- 
Alliance for People's Health
allianceforpeopleshealth at gmail.com
604-215-2775
672 E Broadway
Vancouver, BC
V5T 1X6