| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 258 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-228) and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Whys and wherefores of fibromyalgia -- 1. How our understanding of fibromyalgia evolved -- 2. What is fibromyalgia -- 3. Who gets fibromyalgia and why -- pt. 2. Basic science and fibromyalgia -- 4. Why and how do we hurt -- 5. What's wrong with my muscles -- 6. How do stress, sleep, hormones, and the immune system interact and relate to fibromyalgia -- 7. What is the autonomic nervous system -- pt. 3. How and where the body can be affected by fibromyalgia -- 8. Generalized complaints -- 9. "I'm stiff and achy" : musculoskeletal complaints -- 10. Tingles, shocks, wires, and neurologic complaints -- 11. Insights into insides : chest, cardiovascular, and other concerns -- pt. 4. Clinical spectrum of fibromyalgia -- 12. What are the regional and localized forms of fibromyalgia -- 13. What conditions are associated with fibromyalgia -- 14. Controversial syndromes and their relationship to fibromyalgia -- pt. 5. Evaluation of fibromayalgia patients -- 15. What happens at a fibromyalgia consultation -- 16. Are you sure it's really fibromyalgia -- 17. I'm not crazy -- pt. 6. Improving your quality of life -- 18. Influences of lifestyle and environment on fibromyalgia -- 19. Influence of exercise and rehabilitation on the mind and body -- 20. How to overcome fibromyalgia -- pt. 7. Medicines and other therapies used for fibromyalgia -- 21. Medicines that work for fibromyalgia -- 22. Drugs that are useful inselected fibromyalgia patients -- 23. Behind the hype : unproven, experimental, herbal, and innovative remedies -- 24. Work and disability -- pt. 8. Where are we headed -- 25. What's the prognosis -- 26. Future holds a lot of hope. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Fibromyalgia -- Popular works.
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Fibromyalgia. |
| Genre/Form |
Popular works.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Wallace, Janice Brock.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wallace, Daniel J. (Daniel Jeffrey), 1949- All about fibromyalgia. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002 0195147537 (DLC) 2001055498 (OCoLC)48383577 |
| ISBN |
1423746457 (electronic book) |
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9781423746454 (electronic book) |
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9780198033660 |
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0198033664 |
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9780195147537 (alkaline paper) |
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0195147537 (alkaline paper) |
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0195184807 (electronic book) |
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9780195184808 (electronic book) |
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