New research from the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of North Carolina presented at the American Pain Society 33rd Annual Scientific Meeting found that carrying additional body weight such as overweight, obese and morbidly obese caused those individuals who were injured while being involved in automobile accidents took longer to recover. The study involved […]
FRUSTRATION! There are times in which I wish my concern for my patients was not so overwhelming. As a doctor I have been told my feeling for my patients health conditions needs to be tempered. I’ve never taken my patient’s health or their treatment lightly. I get my emotional highs and satisfaction from seeing my […]
It’s been a very busy past few weeks since I have had the opportunity to write another blog. This one I’m sure will cause a number of responses. One of the reasons why I have such strong emotional feelings for all fibromyalgia patients and wrote my book, is an event that occurred in 2000 here in […]
In twenty four years working clinically with fibromyalgia patients I have yet to meet one that does not have some lumps, bumps and/or water filled swellings also known as lesions just below the skin. What are these and where do they come from? They most often are not painful trigger points. They are areas of […]
In working “with” fibromyalgia patients over the past 25 years I have found the one factor that measured the success or failure of each individual was patience. Since almost all fibromyalgia patients have tried literally every conceivable potion, program or drug for their condition, it seems practical that when a truly viable protocol comes along […]
After taking a week to complete my taxes and catching up on the treatment of the many patients that came into the clinic from the EXPO I find that there is so much more to discuss. The EXPO was not only very well attended but was attended, in my opinion, by very knowledgeable individuals. It […]
Most people have heard the word gluten, but don’t really understand what it is. Gluten is the protein in wheat, barley and rye that makes the dough sticky. Sadly, that chewy protein that makes bagels, breads and pastas taste so good is actually poison to a significant portion of the population — up to an […]
GLUTEN… Is it as bad as you’ve heard? What is it and how might it affect you? What can you do about it? These and many other questions seem to surround this word. Yet gluten has been part of our diet for many years. Why does it seem to affect some people and others not […]
Research involves a number of steps that will either validate or disprove the project someone is working on. Two points that are of utmost importance in proper research include the following: Is the protocol reproducible and how long will someone expect to have a positive response from the protocol. In the first point, reproducibility, our Fibromyalgia […]
Wouldn’t it be easy for you to just take one pill, “the polypill”, and it would be the answer you are looking for to get rid of your fibromyalgia or your rheumatoid arthritis or your multiple sclerosis or any of the thousands of diseases that debilitate so many people. That “polypill” would have in it […]