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Your Membership will begin with the October 2009 issue of the Fibromyalgia Network Journal. Below is a detailed description of its contents.

• Understanding & Fighting Your Fatigue
  
  • Charles Lapp, M.D., and other experts, offer advice, simple self-care therapy, and pharmacological options including the newly released Nuvigil (armodafinil)
    
  • Factors that aggravate fatigue
    
• Setting the Clock Straight on Melatonin
  
  • New research by Dieter Kuntz, M.D., unveils how melatonin actually works to improve the quality of sleep, how it gets produced, problems associated with the pineal gland that interfere with melatonin secretion, and why the hormone tends to wane with age
    
  • Resetting your master clock—the proper way to use melatonin and light
    
  • Other roles of melatonin, including the relationship between migraines and headache
    
• Ken's Corner: Strengthen Your Legs with Isometrics
  
  • Research shows that fibromyalgia patients have less strength in their thigh muscles than healthy people the same age
    
  • Ken Lamm, P.T., offers isometric exercises to increase leg strength without draining your energy or gobbling up your time
    
• What Are We Learning About Savella?
  
  • How the drug works to target symptoms
    
  • 503 fibromyalgia patients respond to a survey spurring discussion on Savella (milnacipran), the latest FDA-approved drug to treat fibromyalgia.
    
  • Clinical trial results on which symptoms are likely to improve and the most common side effects that may occur
    
  • 8 physicians and researchers offer advice on overcoming common side effects, drug interactions, and signs of trouble
    
• Disoriented or Lost in Space?
  
  • Research confirms that fibromyalgia patients become more easily disoriented than healthy control subjects the same age due to abnormalities in spatial memory
    
  • Linking spatial memory deficits to loss of function in the hippocampus area of the brain
    
  • Tips to improve your orientation in large shopping malls, parking lots, etc.
    
• Closing Down Your Pain One Trickle at a Time
  
  • Research by Roland Staud, M.D., shows that treating the most painful area will tone down overall pain for fibromyalgia patients
    
  • Strategies for using Staud’s findings to clamp down on your fibromyalgia symptoms
    
  • Lidoderm patches vs. trigger point injection—which works best for treating myofascial trigger points?
    
• Repetitive Motion, What's it got to do with fibro?
  
  • Looking at the physiological changes in early-onset muscle overuse conditions in order to search for markers of musculoskeletal disease
    
  • Researchers Ann Barr, DPT, Ph.D., and Mary Barbe, Ph.D., put repetitive motions to work in an animal model that may shed light on the early stages of fibromyalgia
    
  • Reduced dexterity in fibromyalgia affects hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills
    
• Therapies that Work
  
  • Knowledge is Power
    
  • Whatever Makes You Happy

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