| Could You Have Fibromyalgia? | | | | sore muscles, it achieves some of the effects of |
| People living with musculoskeletal aches | | | | intensive exercise...even for those incapacitated by |
| experience diffuse pain from everyday | | | | pain. |
| activities...driving, lifting, et cetera. Is your physician | | | | The most important thing to know is that |
| having difficulty coming up with an explanation for | | | | fibromyalgia is not a progressive, degenerative |
| your pain? | | | | disease. Correct treatment can allow you to |
| Fybromyalgia is a pain and fatigue disorder that | | | | livelike everyone else, enjoying the sun and the |
| affects 2-4% of the US population...between 4 | | | | fresh air. Enjoying dinner with friends. Being able to |
| and 6 million, by conservative estimates. | | | | take a hike when you want. Living a normal life. |
| Eighty percent of sufferers are women. The good | | | | Congratulations on your dedication to finding a |
| news is that there are treatments that are very | | | | solution to this massive problem. I look at it as a |
| effective in relieving your pain and suffering. | | | | metaphor. Those with fibromyalgia are like |
| Do you have fibromyalgia? | | | | thecanaries in the old coal mines. When the most |
| Fibromyalgia doesn't cause pain or swelling in your | | | | sensitive start getting ill, it's time for us to so |
| joints, but in the soft tissues located around the | | | | something drastic. |
| joints. And in your skin and organs. | | | | The first thing to understand is that patients who |
| Generalized pain with no obvious source is one | | | | know about their condition can take an active role |
| warning sign. Careful musculoskeletal examination | | | | in finding ways to lessen their symptoms |
| by a medical professional, typically | | | | andimprove their quality of life. |
| arheumatologist, can reveal specific localized | | | | Bodywork options for improving life with |
| "tender points" throughout the body, whose | | | | fibromyalgia... |
| presence and pattern, in association with | | | | - exercise programs (stretching and low-level |
| pain,defines fibromyalgia. | | | | aerobics) to increase endurance, minimize muscle |
| Common symptoms | | | | atrophy, oxygenate muscles andconnective tissue, |
| Physiological issues | | | | and decrease pain |
| - recurrent flu-like illness | | | | - relaxation techniques (meditation, yoga, |
| - headaches coupled with confusion ("fibromyalgia | | | | biofeedback, et cetera) and bodywork therapies |
| clouds") | | | | - massage |
| - painful lymph nodes under arms and neck | | | | - soothes and increases blood circulation to sore |
| - muscle/joint aches | | | | muscles |
| - night sweats | | | | - removes built-up toxins like lactic acid |
| - weight change (usually gain) | | | | - re-educates muscles and joints which have |
| Cognitive function | | | | become mechanically misaligned |
| - attention deficit disorder | | | | Chi exercise machines can help withall of these |
| - spatial and/or directional disorientation | | | | treatment modalities. |
| - calculation dificulties | | | | Nutritional therapy for fibromyalgia can be helpful |
| - short-term memory lapses | | | | in counteracting stress, ridding the body of toxins |
| - communication difficulties (problems speaking, | | | | and restoring nutrients which have |
| confusing words) | | | | beenmalabsorbed or robbed from the body. |
| - "fugue"-type states (staring into space before | | | | Vitamin/mineral supplements can combat stress, |
| brain can function) | | | | replace deficiencies and support the immune |
| - inability to recognize familiar surroundings | | | | system. Our Supplement line offers you the best |
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| - depression | | | | today, at reasonable prices. |
| - panic /anxiety attacks | | | | One doctor's thoughts on chi exercise machines... |
| - personality changes, usually for the worse | | | | "I have been a proponent of lymphatic |
| - mood swings | | | | massagefor a decade now. The problem has been |
| Researchers currently agree that fibromyalgia is a | | | | having a way for my patients to access this type |
| condition which is centrally mediated by the brain. | | | | of massage. Now, I just have them get on the |
| Abnormalities in the levels of | | | | Swing Master here at the office, orthey purchase |
| variousneurochemicals in the brain have | | | | one for themselves. I have seen dramatic results, |
| increasingly been found by researchers. | | | | from reduction in cancerous tumors to alleviation |
| The Good News | | | | of back pain to healthier feetand hands in my |
| Because a chi exercise machine ramps up your | | | | diabetic patients. Thank you for making this unit |
| circulation, optimizes oxygen intake andsoothes | | | | available in America. |