This valuable resource cuts through the medical jargon in other books and focuses on the most important things readers need to know to understand and manage fibromyalgia. Readers learn how to assemble a team of healthcare providers, communicate with doctors, identify the triggers that lead to symptoms, set and track sleep and diet regimens, and much more.
The original edition of this classic survival manual offered the first comprehensive patient guide for managing these conditions. Its extensive set of healing tools included targeted bodywork for painful trigger points and strategies to helpccope with chronic pain and sleep problems and the numbing effects of fibrofog.
Fibromyalgia is a misunderstood, misdiagnosed disease whose symptoms include severe muscle pain, fatigue, sleep problems, and depression. The sufferers, mostly middle-aged women, don’t get much respect, and in the past, patients were often told the disease was in their heads.
A nineteenth-century French dermatologist combined the words trich (hair), tillo (to pull), and mania (uncontrollable) to give the name trichotillomania to the compulsive, irresistible urge to pull out hair.
The amount of fat carried around the waist — “abdominal adiposity” — is a better predictor of lung function than weight or body mass index (BMI), according to findings published in the medical journal Chest.
While 62 percent of older women experience dry eye, only 16 percent know it’s linked to menopause, a new survey shows.
People with chest pain that’s not caused by a heart condition or heartburn may find hypnosis provides significant pain relief and improves their sense of general well-being, British investigators report.
Results from the largest study of chronic fatigue syndrome to date suggests that there are specific genes and gene activity patterns that make some people more prone to develop the disorder.
While the Women’s Health Initiative Estrogen plus Progestin Trial findings previously reported an increase in breast cancer among those taking combined hormone therapy, the updated analysis reveals that estrogen-alone hormone therapy does not increase the risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women.
A new study has found that there is indeed a direct link between high cholesterol levels and prostate cancer, and that men with prostate cancer were around 50 percent more likely to have had high cholesterol levels.