Taking Charge of Fibromyalgia: A Self-Management Program for Your Fibromyalgia Syndrome, Fourth Edition

Kelly, Julie; Devonshire, Rosalie; Romano, Thomas

ISBN 10: 096657740X / ISBN 13: 9780966577402

Published by Fibromyalgia Educational Systems (edition 4), 1998

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Taking Charge of Fibromyalgia: A Self-Management Program for Your Fibromyalgia Syndrome, Fourth Edition
• Publisher: Fibromyalgia Educational Systems (edition 4)
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 096657740X
• ISBN 13: 9780966577402
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition: 4.
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

The 2005 edition of Taking Charge of Fibromyalgia is completely revised and updated with the most effective treatments currently available for the condition. It is written by two health professionals who live successfully with fibromyalgia and have helped thousands feel better! This book is useful for patients, their families, and health care professionals and provides concise information on the diagnosis and symptoms, research, sleep disturbances, medications, pain management, practical coping tips, exercise, work issues, stress management, psychological aspects, flare-ups, diet and nutrition, alternative and pioneering treatments, and national resources. Treatment protocals are also included by four prominent physicians.

About the Author

Rosalie Devonshire, MSW, LCSW is an FMS counselor at the Fibromyalgia Treatment Centers of America in Chicago, IL, providing stress management, biofeedback and psychotherapy treatment to FMS patients. They have both lectured extensively on fibromyalgia and bring a persnal understanding to their audiences, because they, too, live with this condition.

Romano is a compassionate and dedicated rheumatologist.

Flechas is a family practitioner in North Carolina who works with many patients who have fibromyalgia and patients with chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome.

Fransen is Director of the Arthritis Care Program and Fibromyalgia Treatment Program, Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis, MN.

Jacob Teitelbaum, M.D., is the medical director of the Center for Effective CFS/Fibromyalgia Therapies in Annapolis, Maryland.