FM-CP Advocate December 2012

On an upcoming show (date has not been announced) Dr. Oz and a panel of experts will be addressing fibromyalgia.  He wants to hear from you! Submit your Twitter question @DrOz with #OzFibro   

 Submit your questions with hashtags and hope the panel of experts includes at least one major fibromyalgia medical expert.  It will be great if Dr. Oz is able to give a more realistic view of fibromyalgia and illuminate the fact that more research is needed along with better medical education so doctors know how to diagnose and treat this illness.

The *Vulvodynia Association is conducting a brief suvey on pain patients’ willingness/interest in using web-based programs and mobile apps to track their pain symptoms and quality of life measures. Please consider completing their super-short survey . . . read more

Peter Waite of Salt Lake City, Utah never expected to run a 5K race. In fact, he never expected to run again in his life, period. Having battled chronic illness for 17 years and suffering a serious leg injury 10 years ago, running wasn't even on his mental radar. Over the years just walking had been difficult for him. So you can understand how unimaginable it was for Peter to believe that he could ever be fit enough to run 3.11 miles. But he was, and he did . . .  read more

Here is a glimpse of some of the informative, newsworthy articles you will find in the newest edition of the NFMCPA Fibromyalgia and Chronic Pain LIFE magazine. 

Laboratory evaluations in fibromyalgia – some new considerations - by  Patrick Wood, MD  
In this informative article, Dr. Wood discusses lab work that should be considered for people with fibromyalgia to rule out deficiencies that might be helped by supplementation.  This thought provoking article expands current scientific knowledge to encompass a new concept of thinking by tying in cervical spinal cord compression and its influence on lab test outcomes . . .  read more

The NFMCPA exhibited at the 2012 PAINWeek meeting held at the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, September 4-7.  Jan Chambers manned the booth and handed out FM educational materials to attendees who stopped by for information. PAINWeek is the nation’s largest pain conference for frontline clinicians with an interest in pain management. Over 1500 physicians, nursing professionals, physician assistants, dentists, pharmacists, and psychologists attended this year. More than 100 hours of continuing medical education was presented including sessions on: behavioral pain management, complementary and alternative medicine, emergency medicine, health coaching, hypnosis, interventional pain management, medical/legal, neurology, pain and chemical dependency, pain and palliative care, pharmacology, regional pain syndromes, rheumatology, and sex and gender differences in pain management. Over the next few months the NFMCPA will report on some of the important programs that were presented at this year's meeting.  Watch for these informative updates.