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TREATING FIBROMYALGIA

Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS) is a diffuse chronic pain syndrome that affects millions of North Americans with pain and suffering. It is underestimated in numbers at 2% of the population. It is more likely that the 6-10% of the adult population have some  degrees of FMS. Despite having a somewhat systematic means of diagnosis of FMS (11/18 trigger points, pain involving spine and limbs, etc), the medical society does not yet have a systematic means of treatment. This is likely due to the general poor understanding of the condition and chronic pain in general by the medical population and society.

I approach FMS as a number of separate musculoskeletoneurological conditions “glued together” into one general pain syndrome. The FMS cases will have slightly different symptoms and areas of major and minor pain typically related to their injury history. The injury history includes car accidents, falls, repetitive activity, sleeping positions, weight, body posture, anxiety, sleep disorder, deficiencies such as B12, iron deconditioning/lack of stretching.

I believe it is important to look at FMS as a multiple musculoskeletoneurological syndrome (MMSKNS) of pain problems glued together. For example, a typical FMS patient will suffer from

• ·        Headaches

• ·        Tennis elbow

• ·        Golfers elbow

• Carpal tunnel/ulnar neuritis

• AC joint compression

• Rotator cuff

• Chronic neck and low back pain

• Plantar fasciitis

• Patellofemoral syndrome/chondromalacia

• Costochondral pain

• Sciatica

• Hip pain/groin pain/radicular pain from low back area into lower limbs

• Sleep disorder

• Fatigue

There are often a host of other complaints, and this list is a basic review of the areas commonly affected. The treatment will have to address the underlying injury factors, contributing factors, but also will often have to address the physical changes that have occurred from the “injuries” over time.

For example, if major factors include and MVA with whiplash, poor sleep position and an underlying anxiety disorder, the treatment will have to address these issues and often more.

One would likely require a relaxation therapy program, proper sleep positioning, medications to aid in sleep/pain, anti-anxiety medication/modalities and physical therapies addressing the spine and limb muscles affecting the muscles and tendons of the above pain complaints. So if we consider the condition as a MMSKNS, then we are more likely to consider all the factors and all what is required to completely treat the condition.

It is for these reasons, I have created the lamb program such as it is with the multiple different video presentations. At a minimum, I recommend for FMS sufferers the following video presentations

• Understanding pain

• Understanding FMS

• Understanding Sleep (sleep positions/aggravating factors in pain)

• New tools for the battle explaining new technologies to treat pain

• Navigating the lamb Program upper and lower body

• ASERT physical muscular relaxation program and ASERTiR relaxation program

• Stretching for FMS and to begin this in stages over 2-3 months

• Lamb program level 2 upper and lower body to integrate after all the above have been mastered

• Lamb program Level  3 upper and lower body

These video programs will soon all be available as a downloadable rental/purchase from www.zipidee.com

Many of the programs are already available, but the process of converting all the Lamb Programs into download format is taking some time. The DVD’s are not available any more as shipping and handling and duplicating for single orders of all the programs became too costly. Large orders of DVD’s/special programming are available on case by case basis only. More information packages will soon be available with workbooks for the various pain conditions in addition to the video programming.

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