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 [...]
