Dr. Robert Boydston D.C., fibromyalgia doctor in Fresno, shares stories of success and hope for fibromyalgia patients in episode #2 of Fibromyalgia Success.
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Dr. Robert Boydston D.C., fibromyalgia doctor in Fresno, shares stories of success and hope for fibromyalgia patients.
Dr. Robert Boydston D.C., discusses the neurological, brain-based, aspect of fibromyalgia…
So what makes our fibromyalgia treatment approach unique at the Boydston Institute? What do we do, or look at, that every other doctor just brushes over?
Well the newest research, and there’s a whole lot of it, shows that the cause of fibromyalgia symptoms, in a lot of cases, is an electrical imbalance in the brain; not a chemical one, but an electrical one. Now in scientific terms, this is called a “functional disconnection syndrome.”
It’s like this: The wiring is there, it’s not cut, it’s just that the juice is not running at 100 percent. It’s an electrical imbalance. Now, although this is really well documented in literature, very few doctors or practitioners have any idea what this thing is or how to accurately diagnose it…or even how to treat it.
In Fibromyalgia , this Functional Disconnection Syndrome can affect different brain areas: [...]
Our fibromyalgia treatment philosophy at the Boydston Institute is really simple: treat the person, not their diagnosis.
Now why would I say that? Well, because a diagnosis is just a starting point, and on top of that, thousands of people are wrongly diagnosed every day from everything from migraine headaches to allergies.
So we don’t want to get caught up in what you could call a “traditional” diagnosis because it’s pretty generic actually. It doesn’t really give you any information on what you’re going to do to treat it.
So if a doctor says, “Okay you have fibromyalgia”…now what? There’s about 500 reasons why you can have those symptoms. It’s not the same for every person. It’s not like a cold that you catch and you take an antibiotic for it and everything goes away. It’s different than that.
So what we want to do is we want be very specific…because saying you have “fibromyalgia” is generic. It doesn’t give us information about what we’re going to do to change it. To make it better. To get rid of it.
So in our office what we look at [...]
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