Description
- How to Feel Good (or Better) About Yourself
- As a fibro patient and psychologist, Patricia McCloskey Panfile, M.S., offers a unique perspective on making the most out of your life and outlook
- 7 steps to building a better you
- Considering a New Medication?
- With a little wit, truth, and sarcasm Alan Spanos, M.D., of Chapel Hill, NC, offers candid instruction on what to expect from a new medication.
- What the FDA considers "effective" meds, and the truth about drug trials
- A better way to approach your drug treatment options
- Could Fibro Symptoms be Related to Low Iron Storage?
- How iron can be related to your painful fibro symptoms
- Current research tests the effectiveness of supplementing with iron therapy
- Meds Survey: What Works, What Doesn’t
- More than 3,500 Members rank their most effective medications and identify what their doctors are prescribing most often
- Popular pain meds, sleeping aids, and alerting agents
- How meds stack up for patients in different age groups
- What works for patients with milder fibro symptoms
- How the three FDA-approved drugs faired—comparing patient rankings with doctor prescribing practices
- How and Why Your Pain Migrates
- New studies from Hong You-Ge, M.D., Ph.D., and John Z. Srbely, D.C., Ph.D., look at the relationship between myofascial pain and the central nervous system
- Research is showing how those rock hard, knotted muscles in your shoulders or low back are causing pain further down your arms or legs
- Relations to jaw and chest pain, difficulty breathing, irritable bowel and bladder, pain in hands and feet
- Trigger points alter muscle function and may be source of many fibro symptoms
- An aggravated trigger point can refer pain and research shows soothing a trigger point can relieve pain elsewhere
- Advice on how to use ultrasound, acupuncture, heat, dry needling, and other therapies
- Ken’s Corner: Warm Up for Springtime Activities
- 5 to 7 minutes of simple stretching can improve strength and balance
- Fully illustrated techniques simply the program
- You will move easier and breathe better
- Reversing Fibro, Could it be Possible?
- Research evidence by Andrew Holman, M.D., and Patrick Wood, M.D., shows it might be possible to reset the clock on your fibro symptoms
- How dopamine may be associated with important system malfunctions in fibro
- A single prescription medication may help restore the body’s system to a pre-fibro state for some, but there are risks involved
- Therapies That Work
- Bladder Control Device Stops Going Problem
- Dry Needling Complements Care of Myofascial Pain
- Patient Resources - Free article reprints on understanding fibromyalgia and more on taking new medications; suggested reading on myofascial pain treatments, and the truth about medications and drug companies; finding a dry needling practitioner, physical therapy and alternative medicine; link to Abstracts on the Web; educational supplements on Diet and Exercise, and Healthy Relationships, Member benefits, free and discounted items
