Can you imagine arthritis of the muscle? That�s how one patient described her fibromyalgia symptoms. Calcium depositing outside of the bone causes or worsens arthritis. Unknown toxins deposited within the muscle fibers cause fibromyalgia. According to the traditional medical community, the cause of...
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This causes the patient to be more sensitive to pain.8 Diagnosing fibromyalgiaFibromyalgia can be diagnosed if a person experiences widespread pain for more than three months without an underlying condition that would cause pain. Blood tests can also be carried it to check for other diseases....
Medications, physical therapy, or counseling may be employed to reduce disability and to help the patient cope with the chronic illness. Although symptoms sometimes improve, full recovery over a short time frame appears to be the exception.
More information can be found on the following website:http://www.naturaljoint.com. More on Fibromyalgia Treatment According to the National Fibromyalgia Association, one of the most important factors in treating the symptoms of Fibromyalgia is for the patient to recognize the need for making life...
The use of different assessment techniques may affect the treatment outcome and verbal instrumentation may not be the most appropriate in this patient group. Difficulties perceiving information through verbal/cognitive modalities as well as alexithymia are factors that are discussed....
Such therapy should be initiated only after careful patient information and delineation of therapeutic goals are provided. Any drug therapy should be administered in combination with physical treatment and cognitive behavioural therapy. Because of the appearing contours of pathogenic mechanisms, hopefully a...
FIBROMYALGIA IMPACT QUESTIONNAIRE (FIQ) General Description Purpose. This questionnaire was designed to assess the current health status of patients (predominantly women) with fibromyalgia (FM) (1). Content. The FIQ was developed based on information gathered from patient reports, functional status instr...
Wolfe and H user (18) put excellently into perspective the evolvement of the concept fi bromyalgia from fi brositis, the confl ict this chronic pain syndrome has generated and still generates within the medical community, as well as how various criteria to classify or diagnose a patient with...