“If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive at this moment. Each is present in your body.…
Fibromyalgia Pain
A comprehensive look at Fibromyalgia pain, its symptoms, triggers, and effective strategies to manage and alleviate discomfort.
Fibromyalgia and Other Pains: Living with Anxiety and Apprehension
“It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it”, Lena Horne HAPPY THANKSGIVING WEEKEND! We Canadians are always so happy our Thanksgiving falls in mid-October when it’s harvest time; the…
Fibromyalgia: Suffering With The Itch You Can’t Scratch
Fibromyalgia is often described as a silent battle. For millions around the world, it’s more than chronic pain—it’s an invisible weight that infiltrates every part of daily life. But for a surprising number of sufferers,…
Fibromyalgia and Aging: Hope for the new decade
” To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old”, Oliver Wendell Holmes As we age each new year brings hope of change in a positive…
Fibromyalgia: Numbness, Tingling, Pins, and Needles
” The world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it”, Helen Keller A condition called paresthesia results in numbness, tingling, and pins and needles in the limbs, due to disturbances in…
Fibromyalgia and pain management strategies
” These are exciting and challenging times for the manual therapy professions. I believe that the pain science world is handing extremely valuable information to clinicians. We now have a greater understanding of the behavior…
Fibromyalgia and major life transitions: accumulated life crises
“When you’re finished changing, you’re finished”, Benjamin Franklin It really is all about the brain and how new pathways can become established and old ones can be paths less traveled. So many reports their fibromyalgia…
Fibromyalgia and Setting Limits/Boundaries
“Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing, that we see too late the one that is open”, Alexander Graham Bell In so many ways we are fortunate to have access to…
Fibromyalgia: An argument against being mentally ‘ill’
” My friend…care for your psyche…know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves”, Socrates Fibromyalgia does not allow for any kind of scientific tests to aid in making…
Fibromyalgia – Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Siblings-Twins?
“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense”, Gertrude Stein To write that I am frustrated, angry, and discouraged over the recent hoopla this week in the news from…