• Coping and Communicating Your Fibromyalgia
- How to talk with family members about your illness
- Getting your point across: strategies that work
- The physician-assistance connection
- Using education, honesty, and humor
- Tips to empower your family
• Identifying Sleep Disorders
- A patient’s guide to a quality sleep study
- Understanding apnea, hypopnea, and sleep efficiency
- Patients and doctors underestimate sleep difficulties, even obvious limb movements
- Sleep disordered breathing: obstructive sleep apnea (OSA); upper airway resistance syndrome (UARS)
- Eswar Krishnan, M.D., and Stanford Feinberg, M.D., explain why your sleep disorder might be overlooked and offer advice on selecting a sleep doctor
• Q & A with Pain Specialist & Rheumatologist
- Overcoming constipation and nausea while using opioids
- Treating burning pain
- Determining if your hip pain is caused by your joints or your muscles
- Is swelling around wrists and ankles due to your FMS/CFS?
• Deficient Vitamin D Levels Associated with FMS
- The importance of vitamin D for muscles, bones, mood, memory, neuroprotection, and immune system function
- Risk factors: are you getting enough vitamin D?
- Deficiency linked to musculoskeletal pain, reduced muscle strength and impaired memory
- How much sun, diet, and supplements are enough?
- How your body processes vitamin D and the role of calcium
- Suggested food sources and methods for supplementing
•Painful Trigger Points in the Chest, Abominal, and Pelvic Regions ... distinguishing them from diseases in the underlying tissues
- Myofascial trigger point (MTrP) pain can mimic heart attack, breast cancer, or digestive disorders
- Understanding the muscle layers, identifying trigger points, and referred pain
- David Simons, M.D., explains the difference between trigger point pain in the chest muscles and pain caused by the heart
- Stretching therapies for your chest muscles
- Distinguishing trigger point pain from internal organ or gastrointestinal pain – the Abdominal Tension Test
- Stretching and strengthening your abdominal muscles
- How effective is trigger point injection therapy for the abdominal muscles?
• Protecting Your Aging Brain
- Patrick Wood, M.D., and Catherine Bushnell, Ph.D., use magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to measure brain volume
- Experts look at loss of gray matter and causes, particularly in the hippocampus
- The dopamine link and the use of dopamine-like agents, such as Mirapex and Requip
- Approaches for reversing the loss of gray matter
• Therapies that Work ... three patients offer their input
- Music Transforms Pain
- CPAP Machine Improves Sleep & Life
- Massage and Gentle Stretching Unwinds Muscles

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