In All About Fibromyalgia, the authors provide a thoroughly revised and updated version of the highly successful Making Sense of Fibromyalgia, which was endorsed by the Arthritis Foundation, Southern California Chapter. This new volume continues to provide a comprehensive guide - for both patients and professionals - to this little known and poorly understood syndrome. It has now also been completely updated with the current understanding of the disease, andincludes information on the latest drug treatments.
Part I: The Whys and Wherefores of Fibromyalgia; How Our Understanding of Fibromyalgia Evolved; What is Fibromyalgia?; Who Get Fibromyalgia and Why?; Part II: Basic Science and Fibromyalgia; Why and How Do We Hurt?; Whats Wrong with My Muscles?; How Do Stress, Sleep, Hormones, and the Immune System Interact and Relate to Fibromyalgia?; What Is the Autonomic Nervous System?; Part III: How and Where the Body Can Be Affected by Fibromyalgia; Generalized Complaints; Im Stiff and Achy - Musculoskeletal Complaints; Tingles, Shocks, Wires, and Neurologic Complaints; Insight into Insides: Chest, Cardiovascular, and Other Concerns; Part IV: The Clinical Spectrum of Fibromyalgia; What Are the Regional and Localized Forms of Fibromyalgia; What Conditions Are Associated with Fibromyalgia; Controversial Syndromes and Their Relationship to Fibromyalgia; Part V: The Evalution of Fibromyalgia Patients; What Happens at a Fibromyalgia Consultation?; Are You Sure Its Really Fibromyalgia?; Im Not Crazy!; Part VI: Improving Your Quality of Life; Influences of Lifestyle and Environment on Fibromyalgia; The Influence of Exercise and Rehabilitation on the Mind and Body; How to Overcome Fibromyalgia; Part VII: Medicines and Other Therapies Used for Fibromyalgia; Medicines That Work for Fibromyalgia; Drugs That Are Useful in Selected Fibromyalgia Patients; Behind the Hype: Unproven, Experimental, Herbal and Innovative Remedies; Work and Disability; Part VIII: Where Are We Headed?; Whats the Prognosis; The Future Holds a Lot of Hope; Appendix 1: Fibromyalgia Resource Materials; Glossary;
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