Fibromyalgia
What is Fibromyalgia?
Fibromyalgia is a musculoskeletal pain disorder often triggered by a physically or psychologically stressful event or trauma. As a long-term condition that causes pain all over the body, fibromyalgia symptoms tend to linger, even though the individual may have healed properly from the prior stressor or event. In other cases, the disorder may arise without a known cause or trigger.
Symptoms of Fibromyalgia
- Long-term pain, normally over three months
- Fatigue
- Cognitive impairments
- Muscle stiffness
- Difficulty sleeping
- sensory processing challenges (tactile, auditory, visual)
- Headaches
- Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
- Problems with mental processing
Treatments
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Fibromyalgia
- Hyperalgesia
- Joint Pain
- Allodynia
- Neuropathic Pain
- Headaches
- Abdominal and Pelvic Pain
- Widespread muscle pain
- Abnormal pain messages due to changes in the central nervous system
- Low levels of certain hormones such as serotonin, dopamine, or norepinephrine
- Sleep problems
- Genetics
- Infection
- Injury
- Labor
How we can help?
Biofeedback helps you learn to decrease the pain caused by Fibromyalgia and to reduce the hyperarousal of the body’s nervous system. Neurofeedback reduces the emotional charge associated with fibromyalgia. Functional Medicine and Nutrition Counselling to help eliminate any nutritional deficiencies as the cause. Psychotherapy (Clinical Hypnosis and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) helps with any psychological issues that might be feeding your fibromyalgia.
Biofeedback
Learn how biofeedback therapy allows you to control and regulate your body’s physiological functions more effectively.
Neurofeedback
Discover how neurofeedback training can improve your cognitive function and optimize your brain.
Functional Medicine
Discover how functional medicine can restore your health through a holistic (whole mind/body) approach.
Psychotherapy / Counselling
Learn how to improve your life with the help of trained psychotherapists through approaches including EMDR, Clinical Hypnosis, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and more.
Nutrition Counselling
nutritionists use sophisticated data from your lab results combined with details of your mental, emotional and physical health to create a practical, simple and personalized program for you.
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