Description
- Sharing Strategies on Managing Sleep
- Nearly 5,000 fibromyalgia patients surveyed talk about how they cope with sleep issues, wind down before bed, and get back to sleep after waking up in the wee hours of the morning
- Myofascial Trigger Points
- Imaging technology allows doctors to see those painful knots in your muscles
- Research is seeking to differentiate between trigger points and tender points
- What makes people more vulnerable to trigger points, and what causes them?
- Facial Pain, Headaches and Pelvic Discomfort
- The overlap between head, jaw and pelvic region pain / vulvar vestibulitis syndrome (VVS) and temporomandibular disorder (TMD)
- Male version of VVS: orchialgia or chronic testicular pain
- Diagnosing VVS and TMD, implications of genetic studies, current treatments and self-care approaches for pain relief
- Ken's Corner: Easing Back Pain
- Physical Therapist Ken Lamm, P.T., of Tucson, AZ, offers self-help exercises to relieve tension and pain in the back
- Tips on making your own hot and cold packs
- The Brain That Never Fully Sleeps
- Sleep researcher James Kreuger, Ph.D., explains how partial sleep in your brain's cortical columns may be the cause of your light-level sleep, daytime exhaustion, memory difficulties, etc.
- The balancing act between sleep-promoting and sleep-inhibiting substances influences whether you are awake or asleep
- Whole brain versus local sleep at the cellular level
- The negative effects of sleep deprivation on optimism and sociability
- Consequences of poor sleep: hypertension, weight gain, elevated cholesterol, metabolic syndrome, immune activation, diabetes, cardiovascular disease
- Improving the quality and quantity of your sleep to reduce health risks
- Treatment News
- The concept of whole body vibration exercise (WVE) and positive research findings with fibromyalgia patients
- Three new sleep medications are in the works to help you go back to sleep in the middle of the night without leaving you groggy in the morning
- A small pilot study using a low dose of an inexpensive medication shows promise for patients experiencing jaw pain (it may work for fibromyalgia too)
- Therapies that Work
- Relief with Acupuncture
- Wearing a Bra Shouldn't Hurt
- Combating the Brain Fog
