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Fibromyalgia Syndrome: Selecting a CAM Practitioner
Introduction Selecting a health care practitioner–of conventional1 or complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)A group of diverse medical and health care systems, practices, and products that...
CORvalenTM (D-Ribose) Improves Pain And Quality Of Life In Fibromyalgia And CFS Patients
Can a simple sugar provide relief for the millions of patients afflicted with the diagnosis of fibromyalgia and/or chronic fatigue? That’s what Jacob Teitelbaum, MD, and Valen Labs wanted to det...
Fibromyalgia - Natural Treatment Tips To Avoid Living In Chronic Pain
Listed below are some tips and techniques to recover from chronic fibromyalgia pain. 1. To prevent extra tension in your hands, try a variety of labor-saving devices to help let the muscles in y...
Why Disability Testing For Fibromyalgia (FMS) Is Often Misleading
Many people with severe fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) or chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) still wish that they could continue to work. However, patients may lack the physical and mental stamina to do so o...
Supporting a Loved One With a Chronic Illness
If you have a friend or family member with a chronic illness, you know how helpless watching a loved one’s suffering can make a person feel. But don’t let that stop you from reaching out. ...
FDA Approves Cymbalta For Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS)
Cymbalta is the First Antidepressant Approved to Treat Fibromyalgia The FDA has approved the drug Cymbalta to treat fibromyalgia. That makes Cymbalta the first antidepressant approved to treat fibromy...
Treatment Option For Fibromyalgia, Chronic Back Pain, and Migraines
Research is showing that meditation can significantly reduce the pain of certain chronic conditions. Meditation can help with chronic pain and the anxiety and depression that often accompanies it....
Fibromyalgia Syndrome: Tips For Living With Chronic Pain
1. Learn deep breathing or meditation to help with chronic pain relief. These are techniques that help your body relax, which eases pain. Tension and tightness seep from muscles as they receive a quie...
Fibromyalgia Pain Management Option: Hydrotherapy
Summary Hydrotherapy can refer to any treatment that uses water. Several types of hydrotherapy are used in pain management. Hydrotherapy performed in pools or tanks allows patients to exercise with ...
Fibromyalgia Syndrome & Connection To Myofascial Pain Syndrome (MPS)
Myofascial Pain Syndrome (MPS) is a painful musculoskeletal condition, a common cause of musculoskeletal pain. MPS is characterized by the development of Myofascial trigger points (TrPs) that are loca...
Fibromyalgia Syndrome: General Anesthesia Can Increase Post-Op Pain
“The choice of anesthetic appears to be an important determinant of post-operative pain.” – Gerard Ahern, PhD, Georgetown University Dept. of Pharmacology Washington, D.C. - The general anes...
Fibromyalgia Disability Application Issues
Without hard lab test data to measure how sick you are, you can still provide objective evidence of how it affects your life. FM & ME/CFS specialist Richard Podell, MD* - a clinical professor at ...
Fibromyalgia Syndrome: Tips For Combatting Tiredness!
22 ways to tackle life’s biggest energy zappers. Every day, 2.2 million Americans complain of being tired. Most of us chalk it up to having too much to do and not enough time to do it in, especi...
Fibromyalgia Syndrome: Free or Low-Cost Treatment For Depression
Perhaps the only thing worse than depression is having depression and not being able to afford treatment. I frequently get letters from those of you who are in just this predicament. I’ve collec...
Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS) And The Art Of Resilience
You need to know what resilience is so that you can remember that you have it. Resilience is an emotional muscle that can grow with use and practice — or atrophy if ignored. Everyone can grow th...
Wishing You Freedom
It may be our Independence Day here in the U.S., but all of us at FibroFighters want to wish every man, woman, and child throughout the world peace, independence, and the freedom to fight for…an...
U.S. National Institute of Health Recruiting For FMS Clinical Study
Lifestyle Physical Activity to Reduce Pain and Fatigue in Adults With Fibromyalgia This study is currently recruiting participants. Verified by National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and ...
Fibromyalgia And Other Conditions Linked To Magnesium Deficiency: PART 2
Aorta Strength In an experiment on lab rats, the animals had their thoracic aortas injured with balloons. They were then fed diets with low, normal or high magnesium concentrations. The rat aor...
Fibromyalgia And Other Conditions Linked To Magnesium Deficiency: PART 1
Magnesium (Mg) is a trace mineral that is known to be required for several hundred different functions in the body. A significant portion of the symptoms of many chronic disorders are identical to s...
Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS) Treatment: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Cognitive-behavioral therapy does not exist as a distinct therapeutic technique. The term “cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)” is a very general term for a classification of therapies with...
Fibromyalgia Syndrome: The Rise of “Brain Fitness”
Although the following article does not reference FMS directly, its ramifications for those around the world with Fibromyalgia who suffer severe Fibro Fog and other cognitive difficulties are profound...
Insurance Companies To Cut Off Fibromyalgia Coverage
For all of the strides Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS) patients have made in getting their condition recognized as a true disease, even to the point of having a diagnostic (CPT-4) code for the condition: ...