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Botox and Fibromyalgia: A Cure For All? Some patients who experience fibromyalgia find that it can have a devastating effect on their lives. It is a condition whereby patients feel their muscles and limbs are exhausted, they can feel pain in certain parts of their bodies and they may also experience poor sleeping patterns,...

Sodium Oxybate: A Universal Cure For Fibromyalgia? Patients who experience the condition fibromyalgia are often frustrated at the lack of a cure or even a single treatment that can ease their symptoms. Many different treatments may be used, but relief may simply remain elusive and patients can experience ongoing pain, debility and general fatigue/lethargy...

Fibromyalgia: How Can Family and Friends Help Fibromyalgia is not a well known condition in the same way as arthritis or even a slipped disc. But it is a condition that can be quite debilitating and often makes the sufferer tired, even exhausted, tender and in pain. Which means that it can be difficult...

Frequently Asked Questions About Botox For Fibromyalgia Given the use of Botox (Botulinum toxin type A) is a relatively new treatment for fibromyalgia, patients often have a number of questions about the procedure and the effect that it will have. Here are the most frequently asked questions, so that patients can feel at ease...

Why Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Requires A Multidisciplinary Approach Complex Regional Pain Syndrome is by its very nature ‘complex’. Patients who are suffering with this condition are often misunderstood (initially) because they are experiencing disproportionate pain levels to what may have been a rather simple injury, or they continue to experience pain, long after...

Treatment Options For Frozen Shoulder (Other Than Physiotherapy) The medical condition, ‘adhesive capsulitis’ is not a life threatening condition, but is a painful condition that can make life difficult for people who are experiencing it. In layman’s terms, the condition is known as ‘frozen shoulder’ and whilst it is not indeed a life threatening...

Identifying A Frozen Shoulder The condition that is described as ‘frozen shoulder’ is an inconvenient and rather painful condition that is not life threatening and can be easily treated. If you suspect that you have a ‘frozen shoulder’ it is imperative that you seek medical treatment, because if you do not and you carry...

Specialist Help For Peripheral Neuropathic Pain Although it is not known exactly how many people have peripheral neuropathic pain, it is estimated that around 1% of the population suffer with constant or chronic neuropathic pain. Given that around 10 people in every 1,000 per head of population will experience chronic peripheral neuropathic pain, it...

Commonly Asked Questions About Pulsed Radiofrequency Treatment For Meralgia Paraesthetica The condition meralgia paraesthetic is sometimes known as ‘lateral femoral cutaneous nerve syndrome’ and it is a condition that arises from the nerve that directly supplies sensations and feelings to the thigh becoming pinched or trapped, which results in very painful sensations being felt...

Helping Yourself To Manage Meralgia Paraesthetica Meralgia paraesthetica is a painful condition, that is caused by the nerve that supplies the feeling to the upper part of the leg, namely the thigh, being trapped. This results in patients feeling the sensations of numbness or tingling, even a burning sensation in the outer thigh. It...