Fibromyalgia is characterised by fatigue, muscle aches, wandering chronic pains, depression, and anxiety. It often develops slowly, usually over several years. This book will help you to understand the symptoms of fibromyalgia and provides tools you can use to feel better.
Find out why it hurts!
Synthesizing knowledge from fibromyalgia research, biochemistry, current pain research, neuroscience, and pain psychology, the author presents a toolbox of practical treatments that you can use at home to change pain, all without using drugs.
This knowledge creates a fuller picture of fibromyalgia for you, and it demonstrates how recovery is possible.
Caroline’s clinical experience, using acupuncture to treat fibromyalgia, led her to develop the new vagal toning acupressure system (VTA), which she will teach you.
Fibromyalgia pain is not all in your head!
If you have have spent days, weeks, or years of your life wondering what is going on in your body, this book provides essential information to understand your condition and discover what you can do now to recover naturally.
Illuminating and informative, Taking Control of Fibromyalgia reveals an empowering path to restore your natural health and relieve pain.
Learn how the nervous system can create pain in fibromyalgia.
Find out what the latest research on fibromyalgia says about brain inflammation and what you can do about it.
Discover how the new thinking in pain science can be applied to fibromyalgia using self help treatments at home.
Use the full VTA Acupressure system for fibromyalgia.
This book has been super helpful in not only the breakdown of the science into an easy to follow format. That helped me understand a lot more. Will definitely be buying a physical version of this book also.
I found this book very informative. There was a lot of technical information but it was explained in an easy way. I'm definitely going to use the self help tips.
This author is a health professional specialising in fibromyalgia. Goodreads has muddled up all the Caroline Williams's. (This one has only written 2 books, not 87!)