How Can this Charity Help ME? SPD awareness Campaign?

The founder has been investigating SPD and helping people via support groups online for 2 years, which opened our eyes to the need for this charity.

Since the charity has launched we have helped a number of people in different situations, suffering different symptoms or problems all associated with SPD.

Everyone's problem is different so we have decided to do an example of a made up enquiry that we could help with.

A lady emails us this problem:

Hi Support Pelvic Dysfunction,

My boyfriend is very worried at the time off work he is taking to help me when my SPD symptoms worsen, we are worried he will lose his job, I have already been fired from mine. What can we do?

AND we would reply:

First of all lets look at what can help you (and we would help the lady to manage her SPD and get help for it to make sure she is getting the right treatment for her symptoms) after all if she gets the medical help and it helps improve her SPD she may look at going back to work.

Second, we would explain to her what her partner can use to show his employers that he is a carer for his girlfriend, and we would suggest possible involvement of help services and more.

This is just one example of the help we can give people via email, a lot of people are not familiar with SPD and therefore don't know what's possible as treatments or what their partners or family can do if they need more help than others, especially with mobility.

REMEMBER: SPD may be common in pregnancy but it is not normal and therefore should not just be ignored, and no matter the severity of the SPD ALL women who suffer with SPD and the men (athletes) that develop it, all face mobility problems of some degree, and therefore are all facing losing their independence as they find they cannot do what they used to do and what were daily normalities become daily struggles.

Also Remember, you are not alone and there is help here if you need it.

Please help us with our SPD awareness campaign, as we need to get the word out about the charity and therefore be able to help others!

It only takes a matter of minutes or seconds depending on your internet speed, for you to email your friends our website address or our virtual information card (provided on our website under CONTACT US), or you could make your status our website or even post the virtual information card on peoples profile telling them to pass it on and spread the word.

We are working on some downloadable posters for you to print off and ask your local shops to display or even display in your home windows. And you could email us to receive up to 5 of our cards to share with shops or other people, if you have shown a shop and had permission from that shop to display our cards then we can always send you more cards to give the shop to share.

Little things like this don't take very long to do but go a long way with helping us with our awareness campaign! Why not telephone some shops to see if they'll share our charity cards (like business cards) or even posters or leaflets, as were working on them too.

Whatever you do remember that your helping others as opposed to helping us as your allowing people to gain awareness of us and therefore the people that need us can contact us for help, when perhaps they didn't have anyone to contact before.

We not only focus on SPD during pregnancy or pre pregnancy (it happens) but we also focus on post pregnancy which is very important as those who recover from SPD are all very good stories of hope but are not helpful to those who do not, and it is those who don't recover that need the most help.

Think about it, those who recover can go back to work and do things they used to again (unless the SPD re occurs of course) but those who do not recover are stuck with mobility problems and obstacles on a daily basis, and some need crutches and/or wheelchairs! We need SPD to be a recognised disability - which is something else our charity will be aiming to focus on in future!

I would like to take this time to thank all of those who are supporting our charity and ask you to email us some Feedback that we can display on our website!

Thank you,

Kind Regards,

Support Pelvic Dysfunction

help@supportpelvicdysfunction.co.uk