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<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><tbody style="box-sizing:border-box"><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td style="box-sizing:border-box"><div id="gmail-story" style="box-sizing:border-box;width:618.667px;font-size:16px;height:auto;float:left"><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:16pt">Veteran long distance walker to use 2m on his latest walk</h1><p style="box-sizing:border-box">Fifty-nine year old<span> </span><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Paul Truswell, M3WHO</strong>, of Macclesfield, Cheshire, will shortly be starting a 900-mile walk south to north across Great Britain. </p><p style="box-sizing:border-box">Paul is no stranger to long-distance walking having walked east to west across England 560 miles from Lowestoft to Land's End in 2016 and many more in previous years.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box"><img src="https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/28468017_1785566041466907_8761772686371513651_n.jpg?oh=f44c3e878a0da966c9d1c48dd0b9b82a&oe=5B3DFF77" width="100%" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; height: auto;"></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box">This year, Paul is taking on the challenge of walking solo from the English Channel at Dover to Cape Wrath, the far north-west corner of the island of Great Britain, supporting national charity<span> </span><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Fibromyalgia Action UK</strong>. </p><p style="box-sizing:border-box">The route is his hardest to date, and will take him some 50 days to complete including a few rest days, averaging 18½ miles per day walked. Paul will be camping where other accommodation is not available; he will commence the walk on Sunday 1st April.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Richard Newstead, G3CWI</strong>, will be providing logistic support to Paul from his motor home using the 2 metre FM band during the last, most remote stages of the walk, between Oykel Bridge and Cape Wrath, across the north-west highlands of Scotland.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box">More information about Paul’s walk can be found at <a href="http://www.truswell.org/trussytrek2018" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word">www.truswell.org/trussytrek2018</a> where links to his JustGiving donations page and social media links can be found.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box">***************************************************************************************</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box">
</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 30px;font-weight:300;color:rgb(88,89,91);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:16px;line-height:22px">A fibromialgia é uma síndrome crónica caracterizada por queixas dolorosas neuromusculares difusas e pela presença de pontos dolorosos em regiões anatomicamente determinadas. E apesar de haver descrições da doença desde meados do século XIX, só no final da década de 70 foi reconhecida pela Organização Mundial da Saúde.</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 30px;font-weight:300;color:rgb(88,89,91);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:16px;line-height:22px">Em todo o mundo, estima-se que 2 a 8% da população adulta sofra de fibromialgia e a maioria dos casos – 80 a 90% – são mulheres com idade entre os 30 e os 50 anos.</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 30px;font-weight:300;color:rgb(88,89,91);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:16px;line-height:22px">“Sem ter uma casuística estabelecida, posso referir que estamos, neste momento, a tratar cerca de quatro dezenas de doentes com Fibromialgia, e que surgem à volta de seis a 10 novos casos por ano”, afirma <a href="https://www.lusiadas.pt/pt/unidades/HospitalLisboa/medicos/Paginas/346-josmcaseiro.aspx" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(10,181,255);text-decoration:none;font-weight:600">José Caseiro, coordenador da Unidade de Tratamento da Dor do Hospital Lusíadas Lisboa</a>.</p>
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