physical therapy

Whether you identify yourself as having 'fibromyalgia symptoms' or not, "chronic pain" or not, have YOU ever gone to someone who does 'bodywork', or "manual therapy",  to have them work on "tight muscles", or "painful muscles", and you've come away with a different outcome that you'd hoped? Unfortunately, it happens quite often, and so I wanted to provide information here about how to increase your odds of getting the results you want from such a service provider.  read more »

I found a REALLY GRATE topic at Oprah.com today about the fascia of the muscles moving our body, which not only contributes to ongoing muscle pain for people (some think if it as 'chronic pain', it actually has a deep connection to the mind/body system.  So I wanted to share it with you here.  My FAVORITE part of the whole things, which I highly suggest you look at with all the great pictures they have at their website with it, not the stripped down version I have 'transported for you' below, is this:   read more »

All right. This is a story I have long put off telling, not through reticence but time. I was asked, by Mardy, to tell about what I had discovered about my own fibromyalgia and what has worked for me. Firstly, I was not very accepting of this problem, this "syndrome." I began my dance with chronic pain fairly young. Up until I was about sixteen, in fact, I was doing fairly well. Then I fell off the stage onto the back of my head. About the same time, I was struck in the jaw by a baseball. My sensior year I was in a rollover accident.  read more »