All about Fibromyalgia

This year, six million Americans - most of them women - will go to their doctors, complaining of an illness thy have noname for. The majority will be turned away or treated for depression; the few who persist will go to an average of four doctors before they receive the correct diagnosis: fibromyalgia. In Making Sense of Fibromyalgia, noted medical writer Janice Wallace and Dr Daniel Wallace, a leading expert on this disorder, provided a comprehensive guide - for both patients and professionals - to this little known and poorly understood syndrome. Now, in All About Fibromyalgia, the Wallaces provide a thoroughly revised and updated version of that highly successful volume, which was endorsed by the Arthritis Foundation, Southern California Chapter, and has sold almost 23,000 copies since its publication in January 1999. The new volume is completely up-to-date with the current understanding of the disease, and includes information on the latest drug treatments.

Daniel Wallace, M.D., is an attending physician who has served as Clinical Chief of Rheumatology at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California Los Angeles, and has treated hundreds of victims of fibromyalgia. He is the author of The Lupus Book and co-author of All About Osteoarthritis, both by Oxford. Janice Wallace is a freelance medical writer. They live in Los Angeles.

Part I: The Whys and Wherefores of Fibromyalgia
1: How Our Understanding of Fibromyalgia Evolved
2: What is Fibromyalgia?
3: Who Get Fibromyalgia and Why?
Part II: 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?
Part III: 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: Insight into Insides: Chest, Cardiovascular, and Other Concerns
Part IV: The 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
Part V: The Evalution of Fibromyalgia Patients
15: What Happens at a Fibromyalgia Consultation?
16: Are You Sure It's Really Fibromyalgia?
17: I'm Not Crazy!
Part VI: Improving Your Quality of Life
18: Influences of Lifestyle and Environment on Fibromyalgia
19: The Influence of Exercise and Rehabilitation on the Mind and Body
20: How to Overcome Fibromyalgia
Part VII: Medicines and Other Therapies Used for Fibromyalgia
21: Medicines That Work for Fibromyalgia
22: Drugs That Are Useful in Selected Fibromyalgia Patients
23: Behind the Hype: Unproven, Experimental, Herbal and Innovative Remedies
24: Work and Disability
Part VIII: Where Are We Headed?
25: What's the Prognosis
26: The Future Holds a Lot of Hope
Appendix 1: Fibromyalgia Resource Materials
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