Fibromyalgia Syndrome
- A Practitioner's Guide to Treatment
(2nd edition + CD-ROM)
(Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier)
Paperback, 368 Pages , 140 Illustrations
Churchill Livingstone (2003)
ISBN - 0443072191
This is a practitioner's guide to fibromyalgia syndrome and its treatment.
FMS was only officially recognised as a syndrome in 1990, and since then much research has been undertaken and the pool of knowledge is growing rapidly.
This is the only text that distills information and relates it specifically to the problems of assessment, diagnosis and management as confronted by the practitioners.
It provides a multidisciplinary perspective on this multifaceted and frequently encountered syndrome.
Provides a guide to the diagnosis and management of fibromyalgia thus providing the practitioner with a quick and clear
reference guide on how to deal with a group of difficult to manage patients which are commonly encountered
Written by a well-known osteopath with contributions from experts from other professions so provides the practitioner with a multidisciplinary view of the problem and the different approaches to it's management
- Includes the latest research findings
- Addresses all aspects of FMS which is a multifaceted syndrome which can present in many different ways. This help's the practitioner to make a clear diagnosis and select the most appropriate technique for management
- Includes complementary approaches to treatment - will give the practitioners the answers to the questions many patients ask
- Includes a CD-Rom with video clips and narrative showing how to assess and diagnose the syndrome as well as techniques for treatment.
Content:
- Foreword by Sue Morrison MD
- The history and definition of fibromyalgia.
- Fibromyalgia's symptom patterns: Causes or effects?
- Conditions associated with fibromyalgia.
- The causes of fibromyalgia: various hypotheses explored.
- Chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia compared.
- Acupuncture treatment of fibromyalgia and myofascial pain.(by Peter Baldry MB)
- Interdisciplinary pain management in fibromyalgia. (by Paul Watson MCSP)
- The metabolic rehabilitation of fibromyalgia patients. (by John Lowe DC)
- Differential diagnosis : myofascial pain syndrome (by Jan Dommerholt PT)
- Microcurrent therapy and FMS (by Caroline McMakin DC)
- Integration: what seems to be helping?
- Fibromyalgia: treating associated conditions.
- Bodywork approaches to fibromyalgia.
- A fibromyalgia protocol.
- Strain/counterstrain self-treatment for some FMS tender points.
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