Mytime Active launches MSK health hubs

Charitable leisure trust, Mytime Active, has launched its Musculoskeletal (MSK) Health Hubs to support people living with chronic joint pain.

The MSK health hubs will provide exercise, rehabilitation and wellbeing support to help people maintain mobility and reduce pain, as well as improve the health of patients before and after surgery.

The hubs will operate in Bromley at the Spa at Beckenham and Walnuts Leisure Centre in Orpington and at Hatchford Brook Golf Centre and Gym in the Midlands.

The launch forms part of ukactive’s two-year research project, led by a health and fitness consortium including Good Boost, ESCAPE-pain, Orthopaedic Research UK and Arthritis Action, which aims to identify how to transform leisure facilities into MSK hubs that can be accessed in every community.

Local residents can join the six-week health programme through self-referral or via a health or social prescriber. The programme consists of a digital health assessment followed by targeted exercise sessions both in the gym and in the pool.

Diane Friday, Active Lifestyles Programme Manager at Mytime Active, said: “We take great pride in contributing to this project and see a significant potential for leisure facilities to enhance healthcare access, thereby alleviating the strain on the NHS. Mytime Active has seen hundreds of local residents complete the programme with positive outcomes, so it made sense for us join the ukactive MSK hub pilot programme.”