Fibromialgia
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

What is fibromyalgia?
Defined as rheumatism in soft tissues, the most certain thing we know about fibromyalgia is that IT IS PAIN: an intense, severe, widespread pain that, in many cases, even becomes disabling for the person who suffers it.
It is said to be widespread because it is present in each of the following areas of the body: both sides of the body, both above and below the waist, along the cervical spine, in the extremities and even the scalp.
There are 18 “tender points”: areas sensitive to digital palpation. When the patient feels pain in 11 of these points a tentative FM diagnosis can be made. But this first diagnosis must be complemented with several other medical studies to rule out other possible pathologies and confirm we are making an accurate and differential diagnosis.
Up to now, FM was considered a chronic illness of unknown etiology. Researchers are still studying its causes from an organic point of view. The only results reached through research so far are a decrease in the substances that usually protect human beings from pain.
It is also common to find disorders in the cervical spine, such as slipped disks, which may lead us to think that they are the CAUSES of pain rather than the CONSEQUENCES of years of permanent and sustained contraction.
Patients may report sleep disturbances produced, in general, by an intense pain that interrupts their sleeping and makes it difficult to restore to it. Therefore, excessive activity, cephalalgia, irritable colon, etc., produced an unjustified tiredness.

Years of experience in the treatment of psychosomatic illnesses have provided me with the certainty that in many cases DYSFUNCTION AFFECTS ORGANICITY, so we sometimes find affections that, if treated earlier, wouldn’t have produced such body damage.

We are a body and we are a mind. And this unit in constant interaction must be taken into account by all the specialists treating a patient.
Each person perceives and processes the different situations of their life in a particular way. This should be borne in mind in order to modify the symptoms, understood as unconscious responses expressed through body language. In this matter, the constitutional predisposition of each subject is undeniable.