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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: 88
Latest Activity: May 10
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. =
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.
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Comment by Stephen Jeffrey on May 10, 2013 at 5:42am -
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Comment by Stephen Jeffrey on May 9, 2013 at 11:10am
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"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"
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Comment by Stephen Jeffrey on March 14, 2013 at 9:06am
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http://www.futuremedicine.com/toc/pmt/3/2
Mark I Johnson , Raga A Elzahaf , Osama A Tashani
The prevalence of chronic pain in developing countries
Citation | Full Text | PDF (1661 KB) | PDF Plus(1670 KB) | Reprints & PermissionsLaura E Simons , Christine B Sieberg , Rachael M Coakley Patients with pain are not all the same: considering fear of pain and other individual factors in treatment
Citation | Full Text | PDF (1635 KB) | PDF Plus(1642 KB) | Reprints & Permissions Controlled-release systems in neuropathic pain
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Comment by Stephen Jeffrey on March 14, 2013 at 9:03am
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http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-stressful-events-inflammation...
Dwelling on stressful events can increase inflammation in the body, study finds
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Comment by Stephen Jeffrey on March 9, 2013 at 6:08am
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http://www.painmedicinenews.com/ViewArticle.aspx?d=Clinical%2BPain%...
µ-Opioid Receptors Impaired in Fibromyalgia Patients, Study Shows
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Comment by Stephen Jeffrey on February 28, 2013 at 5:41am
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Comment by Stephen Jeffrey on February 22, 2013 at 1:47pm
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That's interesting, thanks Eduardo :)
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Comment by Eduardo Barrera on February 22, 2013 at 12:17pm -
Hey Stephen, Glad you mentioned Devin's book. I had written a piece for her book as well as Mari Skelly's "Women Living with Fibromyalgia".
Did you see this study where there was a 97% misdiagnosis: http://www.slideshare.net/DiagnoseMyPain/fibromyalgia-abstract
http://www.slideshare.net/DiagnoseMyPain/crps-rsd-overdiagnosed-71-...
Now if you want to see my seasoned and reasoned rant, go to LinkedIn and check out the group Fibromyalgia & Chronic Pain Life Magazine. You may want to chime in there too.
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Comment by Stephen Jeffrey on February 22, 2013 at 9:52am
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http://journalstar.com/news/local/fibromyalgia-researcher-reveals-s...
With no apparent cause to explain the widespread pains of fibromyalgia patients, many doctors dismissed their complaints.
To Dr. Jon Russell, a Union College alum living in Texas who spent his career tilting against a malady many colleagues regarded like windmills, the patient suffering appeared genuine.
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Comment by Stephen Jeffrey on February 22, 2013 at 9:48am
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