This health-shared community provides useful expert advice and real life experiences related to heart failure, why it happens and what treatments are available to manage it.

Heart Failure Community

The health-shared diabetes community is a great starting point for everything diabetes. 
Content from specialists and People who live with Diabetes.
Look out for relevant 'journeys' Subscribe to the community and share with friends and family!

HealthShared Diabetes Community

This community includes information about what peripheral arterial disease is, how it can impact the body, complication that can arise if untreated, types of treatments available and how to prepare for treatment.

Peripheral Arterial Disease

This community is set up to create a safe space for people wanting to know about weight management and the psychological aspects and treatment.
It is made up of clinical psychologists who specialise in weight management and have a variety of topics to discuss around stigma, wellbeing, body image and more.

Weight Management Psychology Group 

Gardamed provides competitive and innovative medical devices in the fields of phlebology, lymphoedema and wound care. We are very passionate about our products which encourage and promote patient self-care.

Gardamed®

This is a community for people with chronic pain and those who are part of the care network.
The community has been set up as a safe space for individuals to discuss their personal journeys, how their daily lives have been impacted, the variety of stigmas associated with chronic pain, and various strategies that have helped, or not helped.
The symptoms vary by individual and are experienced as a mixture of both physical and psychological presentations. It mustn't be forgotten that while it impacts the individual it can also impact the relationships those individuals are maintaining and developing.
It is essential to have a multitude of voices and clinicians will provide their perspectives around the management and treatment options that they provide.
A few topics coming are:  The Pain Scale, How to make visits to our doctor productive, General Chronic Pain information, Relationships, Brain Injury (TBI), Dystonia, RSD/CRPS, Spasticity, and the stress on your body/mind can also cause pain.  Controlling pain with a Pain Pump and the experience of a NeuroStimulator.   Alternative pain relief that might help and work our way to to the Pump.
Please be respectful when joining this community. 

Chronic Pain

The National Alliance of Wound Care and Ostomy® (NAWCO®) is a non-profit organization, governed by a voluntary board of directors. NAWCO® through its credentialing board offers the WCC®, DWC®, OMS and LLE℠ certifications.

National Alliance of Wound Care and Ostomy®(NAWCO®)

Our mission at the Vein & Lymphatic University is to create, organize, and deliver ground-breaking, high-quality educational content utilizing the talents of a diverse team of global vein experts and focusing on venous disease and treatment for the phlebology medical community and its patients.
Our goal is to make a positive impact on the global phlebology community by accelerating venous education through highly accessible webinars, lectures, videos, and other premium channels with the aim of empowering, inspiring, and advancing understanding of venous disease and treatment.

Vein & Lymphatic University (VLU)

This community focuses on musculoskeletal system inclusive of bones, muscles, tendons, ligaments, and soft tissue.
The themes covered include conditions, injury, and treatments options with surgical and non-surgical techniques.


Musculoskeletal Community 

The British Lymphology Society is a dynamic and innovative body providing a strong professional voice and support for those involved in the care and treatment of people with lymphoedema and related lymphatic disorders, including lipoedema.

The Society seeks to achieve high standards of care and equitable access to treatment across the UK and promotes early detection and intervention and, where appropriate, screening and prevention. 
 
The Society was established in November of 1985, originally as the British Lymphology Interest Group (BLIG). 

The British Lymphology Society

This community is for individuals interested in learning about lymphoedema.
Themes include what lymphoedema is, how it can be treated, what type of professionals offer treatment, and how people have lived with it out in the community.

Lymphoedema

This community is for people interested in understanding, sharing experiences, and connecting with individuals who have or know somebody with Parkinson's disease.

Parkinson's Disease

This is a community for sharing experiences and expertise about regional anaesthesia. Regional Anaesthesia allows surgery to be done without general anaesthesia. This is possibly by temporarily blocking nerves supplying regions of the body using local anaesthetic injection.

Regional anaesthesia community

This  community is for people with interest in kidney disease, why it happens and how it is treated.

Chronic Kidney Disease

A community dealing with the 'Metabolic Syndrome', the problems you can get with it as well as potential treatments.