Denver Fibromyalgia Health Center

What causes fibromyalgia?

Despite how widespread fibromyalgia is in our society, the cause is still unknown and is likely due to more than one thing. Fibromyalgia is a condition that involves multiple areas of diffuse pain in your body. Things like the amount of sleep you get every night to the repetitive movements at work that you perform everyday can contribute to the development of fibromyalgia. Of all fibromyalgia sufferers, 80-90% of them are women. However, there are things that you can do to prevent from getting fibromyalgia and decreasing the effect it has on your life.

What kind of conservative procedures will improve my fibromyalgia?

Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain condition that has very good results through conservative treatments and changes in lifestyle. Try implementing these choices into your daily life to reverse the effects of fibromyalgia:

Get enough quality sleep

• Develop a routine before bed that signals your body that it is time for sleep. This can include brushing your teeth, locking the front door, reading a book, spending time with your family, or drinking a cup of caffeine free tea.
• Avoid watching television in your bedroom. It makes it very difficult for your brain to calm down after so much stimulation.
• Sleep for 7-9 hours. Any more or any less can be more detrimental than good.

Exercise

• Despite the pain that you experience, one of the most effective treatments for fibromyalgia is movement and exercise.
• Try walking during your lunch break or at least 30 minutes a day, 4 times a week.
• Exercise and movement keeps your muscles active and replenished with nutrients so your body is better able to get what it needs in and what it does not, out.
• Keep your muscles stretched out so there is less chance of muscle spasm and stiffness.

Eat more fresh fruits and vegetables and fewer processed foods

• Shop on the outside perimeter of the grocery store where all the fresh products are such as vegetables, fruits, and fresh meats.
• Processed foods and refined sugar increase pain responses and inflammatory processes that can lead to chronic pain.

Get checked by your chiropractor!

• Your chiropractor maximizes your potential in health by checking to make sure that your nervous system is free from interference so that your brain can effectively communicate with the rest of your body.
• Interference in your nervous system can cause your muscles to become spastic, your pain response to be more sensitive, and your function to become altered.

If you are suffering from fibromyalgia, make healthy choices and talk to your chiropractor more about what you can do to turn the process around so that you do not have to suffer anymore!

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