For the last three years at the Boydston Institute we have been pioneering non-invasive brain based rehabilitation for fibromyalgia sufferer's in the Fresno / Clovis region, ultimately serving the entire Central San Joaquin Valley serving patients from Sacramento to Los Angeles. Non-invasive brain based rehabilitation is a chiropractic sub-speciality we use that has produced wonderful outcomes for our fibromyalgia patients.
In my opinion the reason that those with fibromyalgia go from doctor to doctor, and continue to suffer is that we have created an inadequate system of "specialists" in our healthcare model. The reason I say that is because our body doesn't work that way. We don't have a series of systems that work independently of each other.
Most doctors learn the body in chapters. Chapter one-the heart, chapter two-the lungs, chapter 3-the stomach and intestines…you get the picture. That's why there are 'specialists' for each of those book chapters. The problem is that millions of you see specialist after specialist after specialist and you still don't get any better.
You may have asked yourself what causes fibromyalgia? Some refer to it as a mystery or "invisible" illness. Honestly, for most doctors it is a diagnosis given when they feel they have run out of options. So really it is a syndrome, or a name that describes a group of symptoms. Now before I go any further I don't mean to imply the pain, fatigue, insomnia, or other symptoms are not real, not at all.
My position on this has always been… "there is something definitely wrong, and if we look hard enough, at the right things, we can create a phenomenal outcome for fibromyalgia patients."
All of the current fibromyalgia research that is being published seems to have one unified theme: fibromyalgia is a neurological problem (at least it has a huge neurological component.) The breakthrough comes when you start to realize that the brain is like a big muscle.
A good way to look at the brain is to think of it as a muscle…as lot's of different muscles. Sometimes the muscles are really strong and other times they are really weak. When the muscles…or different areas in the brain, become weak…it will
Linda, a lifelong chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia sufferer, shares the success and changes that have occurred as a result of the functional endocrinology and functional neurology treatments she received at the Boydston Institute.
Linda, a resident of Woodlake, CA, drives 70 miles one way to visit our Institute.
