What Does the Society do For Its Members & Other Sufferers?

All the following for a just £250.00 for Life: -

PRODUCES and distributes to hospitals and individuals on application a Guidebook for Patients.

PRODUCES twice a year an illustrated Newsletter containing articles on all aspects of the disease and the Society.

PRODUCES a cassette tape of a daily programme of physiotherapy exercises.

PRODUCES a video cassette on a daily physiotherapy programme.

FORMS self-help branch organisations around the country providing regular supervised physiotherapy.

ORGANISES and funds a large symposium for sufferers in a different city of the British Isles each year.

OFFERS advice and counselling services on related questions such as anti-inflammatory drugs, aids, life insurance, beds and chairs, car driving, and questions on inheritance, etc.

ALSO the Society takes an active role in educating the medical and para-medical professions in the disease and its treatment, it encourages and assists the formation of foreign sister societies represents members in pension and employment tribunals. Assists in the welfare of individual sufferers by providing emergency help when needed and encourages research into all aspects of the disease.