Understanding Specialized Fibromyalgia Care in a Complex Condition Fibromyalgia is a chronic condition that requires more than a single approach to care. Because it involves widespread pain, fatigue, sleep disturbance, and cognitive dysfunction, it does…
Fibromyalgia Conditions
Explore the conditions associated with Fibromyalgia, their symptoms, and how to manage them for improved well-being.
Fibromyalgia is a condition that is Not Worldly Known or Understood
Obviously, I cannot answer for all of the people of the countries in the world, however, those people that I interviewed for the most part either never heard of fibromyalgia or had very little knowledge…
About Fibromyalgia Everything You’ve Always Wanted to Know
Fibromyalgia, meaning muscle and connective tissue pain (also referred to as FM or FMS), is a disorder classified by the presence of chronic widespread pain and a heightened and painful response to gentle touch (tactile…
Some Fibromyalgia Patients Are Going to P.O.T.S. (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome)
Understanding the Overlap Between Fibromyalgia and POTS In recent years, there has been growing attention to the overlap between fibromyalgia and a condition known as Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome, commonly abbreviated as POTS. While they…
Manual Therapists to “Help” Fibromyalgia
Fibromyalgia is often described as a condition that lives in the space between pain and fatigue, between physical symptoms and nervous system sensitivity, and between what is felt internally and what can be measured externally.…
Fibromyalgia: Living on high alert
“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are”, Anaïs Nin One of the common sayings in Mindfulness Meditation is that thoughts are not facts. In chronic pain clinics, we are…
Trigger warnings for the fibromyalgia mind
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear” , Mark Twain Neuroscientists can now tell us amazing things about the brain, they are the experts on the nervous system. The argument that…
Fibromyalgia: “What’s That Smell?”
Introduction Fibromyalgia is most commonly associated with widespread pain, fatigue, and cognitive difficulties, but one of its less widely discussed features involves changes in sensory perception. Many people living with fibromyalgia describe an increased sensitivity…
The 7 Psychological Effects of Fibromyalgia
Fibromyalgia is often discussed in terms of pain, fatigue, and sleep problems, but one of its most profound impacts is psychological. Not because fibromyalgia is “all in the mind,” but because the mind and nervous…
Fibromyalgia: Living with Chronic Pain
Living with fibromyalgia means living with a type of chronic pain that does not behave in predictable or straightforward ways. It is not limited to a single injury or a specific joint, and it is…