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Your Membership will begin with the January 2010 issue of the Fibromyalgia Network Journal. Below is a detailed description of its contents.
Don't Feel Alone with Your Illness
- 3,200 Members share their best suggestions on overcoming feelings of isolation
- Experts Don Uslan, M.A., M.B.A., L.M.H.C., and Connie O'Reilly, Ph.D., offer strategies to boost your self-esteem and establish social support in the process of building a new you
- Steps to accept and like yourself again, or how to be your own best company
- How to build a social life
- When professional advice may benefit you
- Are Myofascial Trigger Points Driving Your Pain?
- Breakthrough research by Hong-You Ge, M.D., Ph.D., can blow the lid off the value of those painful tender points and ultimately influence the diagnostic criteria for fibromyalgia
- Understanding myofascial trigger points, characteristics, active vs latent, and recent advances
- New nondrug way to approach fibro treatment
- Novel technique to ease trigger point pain
- Ken's Corner: Techniques to 'Untie' Your Muscular Knots
- Illustrated self-help methods to loosen the muscular knots in your neck and shoulders; positional release, oscillation, and neuromuscular massage
- Resources to ensure success and helpful suggestions
- Neurologic Symptoms ... What do they mean?
- Study correlates common fibromyalgia symptoms (i.e. balance, weakness, tingling, dizziness, noise and light issues, etc.) with neurologic signs
- Fibro patients demonstrate unusual sensory abnormalities
- Is Painful, Itchy Skin Part of Your Fibro Complex?
- What's going on in the nerves, inflammatory, and immune system that causes that super-sensitive, itching, burning skin?
- Why doctors are studying the itch and where it is leading them
- Brain imaging studies look at chronic itch
- Advice on treatments that can calm sensitive skin
- A 'Short Circuit' in Your Nervous System
- Research by Serge Marchand, Ph.D., offers proof that the brain and spinal cord in fibromyalgia patients are not communicating normally
- Why positive expectations cannot override fibromyalgia pain
- How your faulty DNIC (diffuse noxious inhibitory control) system alters your pain threshold, making everything feel worse
- The role of dopamine in the DNIC system of fibro patients, the genetic interaction, and possible therapies
- How Sex Hormones, Aging & Sleep Influence Fibro
- An in-depth look at the influences of estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, age, and sleep on the pain inhibitory system, such as your DNIC
- Studies on how hormonal replacements improve sleep and which hormone combinations may reduce pain
- Therapies that Work
- Everything's Better on a Bike
- Hypnosis in Managing Pain
- Update on XMRV and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- Update on XMRV with link to web address by expert Lucinda Bateman, M.D.
- Patient Resources
- Resources on myofascial pain for patients and healthcare providers, finding a hypnotherapist, an online coping tool, and three free article reprints
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