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Fibromyalgia

This group is dedicated to formulating a good knowledge base from which MT's can obtain a high level of understanding of  the condition and how best to treat the fibromyalgia client seeking their help.   

Location: World wide.
Members: 89
Latest Activity: Jun 11

The video above was created by a sufferer to convey just how complex and depressing the condition can be.

When a fibromyalgia client first visits you for treatment, it is vital to show empathy and understanding. This is due to the likelyhood she will have had an extreamly long and difficult journey in obtaining a diagnosis,http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21765861  The double wammy, aggresive invisable pain, and not being believed by familly or medical profession because on the outside these clients look to be in ok health. In these cases support group information will be of help. =

 http://www.fmaware.org/

http://www.ncfsfa.org/

 

The video below does not refere to massage therapy but does present Stanford University's pain management department's medical thinking on the mechanism's of fibromyalgia and the developement of future treatment strategies. 

 

 

 

The above video goes into detail of the posibility of severe disruption to the descending noxious inhibitory controll mechanisms that lead to the client experiencing diffuse pain throughout the body.  The research paper below speculates upon the posibility that multiple triggerpoints could be the cause of this.

http://www.cmjournal.org/content/6/1/13

 

An article by Eric Dalton http://erikdalton.com/media/published-articles/fibromyalgia-pain-fact-or-fiction/

September/October's http://www.massageprofessionals.com/group/massageandbodywork  by Cara McGuinnis http://massagebodywork.idigitaledition.com/issues/20/

Thanks to Kelly Sanders for the facebook link http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/groups/108380879231706/

Linked in Fibromyalgia research info.

http://www.linkedin.com/news?viewArticle=&articleID=691524427&gid=1800874&type=member&item=65480818&articleURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fmcpaware.org%2F9-aug-2011-press-release&urlhash=s-Yn&trk=group_most_popular-0-b-shrttl

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” What type of massage therapy doctors should choose to refer their patience for treatments????

Hello members .On the February 2nd 2012 we witnessed a press release related massage therapy of extreme healing power.Massaging muscles may reduce inflammation, spur mitochondria formation. USA Today…Continue

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Is massage therapy recognized as an therapeutic /medical procedure???

Is  massage therapy recognized as an therapeutic /medical procedure???This link is to my article on this subject, where I am not only answering this question but also proposing practical steps.…Continue

Started by Boris Prilutsky Dec 11, 2011.

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Comment by Stephen Jeffrey on June 11, 2013 at 6:44am
Comment by Boris Prilutsky on May 22, 2013 at 11:23am
Hi Stephen .
It is great article to learn on attempts of different companies to extract money from people who are suffering  from fibromyalgia . The point is, that even US Academy of rheumatology claiming that this syndrome is idiopathic. Means they do not know what is causing all this devastating symptoms. At the time rheumatologists  claiming expertise to treat it. Also Academy claiming that this is not inflammatory conditions, but practically everyone prescribing antiinflammatory drugs. The big confusion is that histological studies techniques to determine acute inflammatory condition, and low-grade inflammatory condition is very different. Of course if patients with fibromyalgia, who will be exposed to some degree of physical activities,and  most likely it will lead to flare up, and will escalate to acute inflammation, in such a case within the same person study test will come out in support that fibromyalgia is an inflammatory condition. As we stating in this article http://medicalmassage-edu.com/articles/31-article15 Fibromyalgia is a Fibromyositis.

For many years , by providing specifically designed approach /massage therapy ,I am successfully treating patients who suffer from fibromyalgia, achieve sustained results and help to manage it so people can come back to normal life activities.
Few years ago I started developing silicone jars method. Due to clinical outcome, it became clear that silicone jars massage makes a huge difference in management of fibromyalgia symptoms. When the silicone jars is incorporated in medical massage protocol for fibromyalgia the results are coming faster and are easily sustainable.BTW. lower cytokine concentrations, is found within people when insufficient lymphatic drainage . Of course pH will drop, but not everyone will develop  pain all over the body.in this case , and due to accumulation of metabolic   toxic  waste product , people just will have weak immune response , and easily can get  sick , cold , flu  etc..Because of myofascial  dysfunctions within fibromyalgia patients  , it will be insufficiency of lymphatic drainage. lower cytokine concentrations, in my views has nothing to do with pain. Additional info in my article

http://medicalmassage-edu.com/articles/47-article31

there is one typo within this article. Instead of inspiration, you should read inhalation.

Best wishes.

Boris

PS. Recently I had a patient, men 49 years old. Who did suffered from pain all over the body, was diagnosed with major depressive disorder, whatever its means. Interesting case I am planning to discuss this case in one of my blogs.

Comment by Stephen Jeffrey on May 22, 2013 at 6:46am
Comment by Stephen Jeffrey on May 10, 2013 at 5:42am

Comment by Stephen Jeffrey on May 9, 2013 at 11:10am

"On May 18 and 19 2013 Boris Prilutsky is doing a seminar for massage therapists who treat fibromyalgia sufferers incorperating the use of cupping with silicone jars. http://medicalmassage-edu.com/Silicone_jars_seminar.htm"

Comment by Stephen Jeffrey on March 14, 2013 at 9:06am

http://www.futuremedicine.com/toc/pmt/3/2

  The prevalence of chronic pain in developing countries
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Pain Management, March 2013, Vol. 3, No. 2, Pages 83-86.
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  Patients with pain are not all the same: considering fear of pain and other individual factors in treatment
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Pain Management, March 2013, Vol. 3, No. 2, Pages 87-89.
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  Controlled-release systems in neuropathic pain
Comment by Stephen Jeffrey on March 14, 2013 at 9:03am

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-stressful-events-inflammation...

Dwelling on stressful events can increase inflammation in the body, study finds

Comment by Stephen Jeffrey on March 9, 2013 at 6:08am

http://www.painmedicinenews.com/ViewArticle.aspx?d=Clinical%2BPain%...

µ-Opioid Receptors Impaired in Fibromyalgia Patients, Study Shows

Comment by Stephen Jeffrey on February 28, 2013 at 5:41am
Comment by Stephen Jeffrey on February 22, 2013 at 1:47pm
That's interesting, thanks Eduardo :)
 

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