Fibromyalgia Syndrome: A Practitioners Guide to Treatment

by Chaitow, Leon; Baldry, Peter (CON); Blake, Eric (CON); Dommerholt, Jan (CON); Good, Rebecca (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780443069369
• ISBN10: 0443069360
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-11-20
• Publisher: Elsevier Science Health Science

Summary

In Fibromyalgia Syndrome - a practitioner's guide to treatment Leon Chaitow and his contributors provide a comprehensive overview of this epidemiologically significant condition and describe the most effective multidisciplinary approaches to treatment. Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS) was recognised as a syndrome by the WHO in 1990. Sufferers from this complex syndrome may experience a wide variety of symptoms, ranging from headaches and fatigue to widespread muscular pain or irritable bowel syndrome. FMS is the second commonest condition encountered in clinics for the treatment of chronic pain. Because of its many presenting symptoms, different clinicians and therapists become involved in the treatment and management of FMS patients. Fibromyalgia Syndrome - a practitioner's guide to treatment aims to help clinicians and therapists involved in the treatment and management of FMS to better understand the syndrome, and to plan appropriate treatment and management.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. vii
Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
The history and definition of fibromyalgia	p. 1
Fibromyalgia's symptom patterns: causes or effects	p. 25
Conditions associated with fibromyalgia	p. 47
The causes of fibromyalgia: various hypotheses explored	p. 113
Chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia compared	p. 135
Acupuncture treatment of fibromyalgia and myofascial pain	p. 145
Interdisciplinary pain management in fibromyalgia	p. 161
Differential diagnosis of fibromyalgia	p. 179
Microcurrent therapy in the treatment of fibromyalgia	p. 215
The metabolic rehabilitation of fibromyalgia patients	p. 247
Fibromyalgia and the endocannabinoid system	p. 263
Therapeutic Touch in the treatment of fibromyalgia	p. 279
Naturopathic hydrotherapy in the treatment of fibromyalgia	p. 289
Integration: what seems to be helping?	p. 303
Fibromyalgia: treating associated conditions	p. 329
Physical modalities and fibromyalgia	p. 363
Respiratory function assessment and responses	p. 401
Strain/counterstrain self-treatment for some FMS tender points	p. 407
Appendix: Keeping a record	p. 411
Index	p. 415
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