Functional Approach to Fibromyalgia
Fibromyalgia is a condition that causes pain in muscles and soft tissues all over the body. It’s a disorder characterized by widespread musculoskeletal pain accompanied by fatigue, sleep, memory and mood issues.
It can come on in the middle of the workday, or keep you from even getting out of bed. It can cause such intense pain, body stiffness, and muscular tenderness that you find it hard to move your joints. It can resolve and return at will – and nobody knows exactly why. Researchers believe that fibromyalgia amplifies painful sensations by affecting the way your brain and spinal cord process painful and nonpainful signals, and is an ongoing condition.
Symptoms often begin after an event, such as physical trauma, surgery, infection or significant psychological stress. In other cases, symptoms gradually accumulate over time with no single triggering event.
Our goal and approach to treating fibromyalgia is to reduce the inflammation which is a key to recovery. With any of our treatments, we treat the entire patient not just the point of pain. Many health issues aren’t caused or treated in confinement which is why we focus on treating the entire body and not a single pain point on the body.
Once the underlying causes are treated it’s amazing how quickly fibromyalgia can be resolved.
Our functional medicine practice is dedicated to a holistic approach for chronic illness treatment, and we specialize in fibromyalgia care for patients living with the widespread, severe pain this condition causes.