Should your arsenal for fighting chronic pain include ultrasound and interferential TENs treatment?

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Drugs and Pain

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Confronting Isolation Head On

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Which Came First, the Cart or the Horse? FM and immunity.

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Does depression make fibromyalgia and chronic immune dysfunction symptoms worse?

Dealing with inadequate pain control, medication trials, exhaustion, fatigue, health care providers, family, friends, coworkers, self-esteem, stress, and medical and legal red tape, can lead to depression or anxiety.

We know that central nervous system chemical messengers are hijacked somewhere along the body’s information highway. Because neurotransmitter regulation is imperative to homeostasis (well-being) in the body, feelings of despair can have an effect.

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Every day you should spend all your available energy pennies, but not one more. One extra penny of effort today will cost the FM, CFID, CMP person a dollar tomorrow. Not smart! Make daily deposits in your well-being bank.

If you are not consistent at assessing your abilities, you can easily bankrupt your account…you need to do a balancing act with your unconscious process of self-accommodation and deceit, the permission we give ourselves to loaf, stall, or non-perform. This tendency to give up prematurely, surrender to dread, to drop our own ball at the first sign of difficulty is universal. That’s right, universal. Everyone knows the decision to let the Frisbee pass without diving to try to catch it…..

All blogs, posts and answers are based on the work in Integrative Therapies for Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and Myofascial Pain: The Mind-Body Connection by Celeste Cooper, RN, and Jeff Miller, PhD. 2010, Vermont: Healing Arts press and are not meant to replace medical advice. www.thesethree.com

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What and Why: The role of complimentary therapies for improving fibromyalgia symptoms

Fibromyalgia is a centralization disorder, which means it begins in the central nervous system which has become easily over stimulated. We also know from many studies that what we think does affect the way our brain processes information. There are many good techniques that teach you how to calm our mind, and thereby lower blood pressure, heart rate, and the release of cortisol. Also important is addressing myofascial pain syndrome (AKA chronic myofascial pain) which is now known to be a common comorbid condition.

Addressing centralization, changing the way the brain thinks.

Anyone who has practiced biofeedback understands how our thoughts have the ability to change the way our body reacts. Because cortisol is already altered in FM, stressful emotional, mental, spiritual, or even physical events put us at higher risk for an upset in cellular metabolism putting micro-healing in jeopardy.

Mindfulness, creative visualization, guided meditation, biofeedback, Qi Gong, Yoga, and T’ai Chi (discussed in length in Chapter 5 of our book “The Power of Mind, Body, and Spirit”) are all good ways of learning how to turn down the volume on your stress meter. Identify known stressors and try to particularly avoid them when you are having a flare in symptoms.

The role of the myofascial and what can be done about it

If you have MPS/CMP, and most FM patients do, you have knotted up pieces of muscle fiber that shorten the muscle, radiate pain and cause dysfunction of the muscle. The only thing that will treat a myofascial trigger point (MTP) is direct stimulation. Bodywork in the form of MTP injections, specific MTP pressure therapy, active release therapy, and myofascial release are indicated. Some find TEN’s units effective in blocking the pain impulse from these significant peripheral pain stimulators.

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All blogs, posts and answers are based on the work in Integrative Therapies for Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and Myofascial Pain: The Mind-Body Connection by Celeste Cooper, RN, and Jeff Miller, PhD. 2010, Vermont: Healing Arts press and are not meant to replace medical advice. http://www.thesethree.com

Author of Chapter Five, Living with and Coping Effectively Through Fibromyalgia: Detecting Barriers, Understanding the Clues, in Fibromyalgia Insider Secrets: 10 Top Experts, 2nd Ed. Ebook complied by Deirdre Rawlings, ND, PhD