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Book Detail
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Making Sense Of Fibromyalgia
Wallace, Daniel J.
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Publisher: Oxford University Press Affiliation: University of California - Los Angeles, School of Medicine Audience: General/ Laypersons Dimensions: 9.5 x 0.9 x 6.4 in
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Synopsis:
The authors offer detailed information in a clear and accessible style , taking readers through the steps of diagnosis, all the established f orms of treatment, and alternative therapies that have yet to be prove n effective. Fibromyalgia, they explain, is a pain amplification, brou ght on by abnormal interactions between hormones, the immune system, n eurotransmitters, and the autonomic nervous system. Sometimes the synd rome occurs spontaneously; in most cases, the authors write, it is ass ociated with trauma, stress, such conditions as lupus and hypothyroidi sm, and over forty microbes, from hepatitis to Epstein Barr to Lyme di sease. They draw on actual cases to illustrate their points and to bre ak through the isolation that patients often feel when doctors misdiag nose or simply ignore their symptoms.
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