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Most Common Causes of Fatigue Discovered – Beating Tiredness and Fatigue

Chronic fatigue, and its more severe counterpart, chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), are not new diseases. These conditions have been known under a multitude of other names for many centuries.

In an effort to determine the causes of these conditions, many causal-candidates have been discussed by doctors and the public alike. In the late 1800′s the name “neurasthenia” surfaced as the primary descriptive term.

The first World War marked a time where chronic fatigue was a major complaint for millions of American and European citizens. It was such a major problem that the medical community tried to find out why so many people were tired all the time.

The Late 1800′s Name of Neurasthenia Encompassed Many Diverse Symptoms

That gradually gave way to attempts to define the condition more narrowly and provide specific names:

* fibromyalgia

* Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

* Multiple Chemical Sensitivity

* Post-Viral Infectious Fatigue

The Medical Establishment doesn’t understand the underlying causes of fatigue.

Without a knowledge of the causes, no effective therapies are provided to help people alleviate their suffering.

All conditions of fatigue, however, consist of a similar symptom picture that’s remarkable in its pattern:

* fatigue

* muscle weakness

* inability to cope with stress

* gastrointestinal disturbances

* gastrointestinal disturbances

* balance difficulties

* balance difficulties

* inflammation

* balance difficulties

* and many other debilitating symptoms

The complexity of the symptom picture and the failure of medical tests, such as blood work-ups and MRIs, to detect anything wrong has led to a wasteland of continued suffering.

The Specific Causes of All Forms of Fatigue Remain a Mystery to Modern Medicine

The best that anyone can say about this whole syndrome of chronic fatigue is that it arises because of multiple agents acting at the same time. Naturally, this befuddles medicine who is used to the idea of “one cause/one disease.”

With medicine frozen in its tracks, many people turn to alternative ideas and alternative treatments. This road is also fraught with danger because the alternative arena is filled with quick-buck artists and marketers.

That being said, the only hope for fighting chronic fatigue is in the arena of alternative medicine. This includes the use of multiple plans of attack:

* appropriate exercise

* the judicious use of diet

* the most appropriate diet is low-carbohydrate

* yet this diet is maligned by the medical community

* the use of selected vitamins, minerals, and herbs

* unfortunately, the public is not trained in choosing these

* of course, medicine knows nothing of this due to its reliance on drugs

Many people will tell you that they were able to beat chronic fatigue because of alternative treatments. Medicine offers up nothing much more than some ineffective advice and it realizes that it has no effective therapies, a point made in all medical journal articles.

But because of medicine’s need to squash any competing methods to health care, it ridicules any alternatives to what it offers. The only hope, therefore, to the public is to find effective alternatives. They are out there but one needs to be careful in discovering what works and what does not work.

Dr. Gregory Ellis has studied the causes of chronic fatigue for more than two decades. Visit his website and learn to fight fatigue. For a limited time, sign up for his FREE Tired-Rescue ECourse describing what you can do NOW to win the battle against tiredness.

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Trigger Points Differentiate fibromyalgia

fibromyalgia syndrome is differentiated from other musculoskeletal disorders as the former involves multiple pressure and that are characterized as discrete, focal, and hyperirritable spots in a tight band of skeletal muscle. These areas are painful when compressed.  They can produce localized pain, referred tenderness, referred pain, motor dysfunction and autonomic phenomena.

The causative factor of this syndrome is thought to be stress developed on muscle fibers secondary to acute trauma or repetitive microtrauma. Muscles usually involved are those used to uphold body posture, such as neck muscles, shoulder muscles, and pelvic muscles. When these muscles are affected, patients experience persistent pain and may suffer from decreased range of movement.

In contrast to pressure or tender pointshave an important characteristic that is referred pain. The pain on palpation is described as radiating at a site that is remote from the origin. The pain that spreads from other sites has pattern that is similar to the patient’s chief complaint. Another difference is its production of local twitch response and jump sign upon application of firm pressure in a snapping fashion perpendicular to the muscle.

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can be classified as active or latent. In the former, pain is actively referred either locally or to another area along the nerve pathways while in the latter, localized pain but not referred pain exists. However, referred pain in the latent type can be elicited by applying strain or pressure to the spot in a taut band of myoskeletal structure.

Another classification is either key or satellite. The former classification promotes a “pain referral pattern” along a certain nerve pathway that activates a dormant type on the pathway while the latter is set into motion by the key type. Therefore, successful treatment of the key type will resolve the satellite type.

Another classification is either primary or secondary. The former biochemically activates the latter in another structure. However, treatment of the former does not necessarily resolve the latter.

Diagnosis is through examination of signs, symptoms, pain patterns and manual palpation. The site is usually a taut band in muscles in which a hard nodule can be felt. Another important feature is the presence of twitch response that activates the “all or nothing” response in a muscle resulting to contraction.

There are pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic modalities for the treatment and management of this disorder. These include analgesics, antidepressants, non-steroidal anti inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), acupuncture and acupressure, massage therapy, ultrasonography, heat or ice application, diathermy, electrical nerve stimulation of skin, spray and stretch technique, dry needling, and local anesthetic, saline, or steroid injections.

Injections offer a faster relief and can be second line choice when patient did not respond to other methods. However, decision to use this treatment depends strongly on the training and skill of the physician. It is important to note that just like any other modalities, injections  may have possible complications such as vasovagal syncope, skin infection, pneumothorax, needle breakage, and hematoma formation.

The treatment is considered successful if pain on the area is eliminated and deactivated, elongating the structures affected and allowing the natural range of movement of the affected body part.

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fibromyalgia Tender Points And fibromyalgia Study

fibromyalgia tender points or trigger points Can be best identified by the acute pain felt in different areas of the body where by feeling around you would be able to feel a sharp pain or tender point that may feel similar to a bruise.

Feeling pain in about 10 to 20 particular spots on the body is explained as just one of the two major symptoms of fibromyalgia syndrome.

What Could Be the Causes for Fibromyalgia Tender Points or Trigger Points?

The opinions of the experts are divided on this topic. Some say that this happens because of weakening of the muscles at certain spots but are not able to say what could be the cause of such uneven weakening of these muscles.

Why does pain not affect all muscles in all spots instead of certain areas of the body?

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Some say that these painful Fibromyalgia trigger points or tender Points happen due to either too much oxidation plus the fact that there is too little oxygen available. Based on this theory anti-oxidants have been added to the diet recommended for Fibromyalgia with excellent results.  The excellent results point to the fact that this theory might be correct.

What Is Recommended For Curing the Pain of Fibromyalgia Tender Points or Trigger Points

Unfortunately, there is no cure for this ailment. However, proper symptomatic treatment is very efficient in controlling the pain. The best and most popular treatment is adding anti-oxidants to your diet.  There are different anti-oxidants in different foods and you would require your nutritionist to work out a diet which includes a massive dose of these if you want to get rid of the pain.

Fibromyalgia Symptoms can be greatly reduced by bringing exercise into your routine to bring oxygen to your muscles.By using Fibromyalgia and exercise formulas 20 to 30 minutes a day can curtail the pain felt in  the affected areas and fight the most severe fibromyalgia symptoms.The exercise should be moderate.

If you serious about feeling better than nothing can help more than sticking to your diet  and exercise plan.Some people stop their plan and regiment mostly because they are feeling better and feel that they no longer need it,so definitely keep it going.Your muscles will eventually develop a deficiency and you’ll more than likely have to start over from square one again.

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The Root Cause of fibromyalgia Pain – How To Correct The Two Levels of fibromyalgia Pain

fibromyalgia is a condition that is categorized by a myriad of symptoms, but rarely do you see any rational explanation for what causes fibromyalgia pain.

There are many causes for pain, and too voluminous to list, but if we did make a list, I am sure many causes would be omitted. The core of my theories for the pain in Fibromyalgia relates to the causes of the first level of pain. Our findings are that in Fibromyalgia, there are generally two levels of pain. The first level of pain is caused by internal and external forces that affect our body’s overall energy fields. Pain at the first level is called Latent Pain.

Latent pain can be caused by multiple environmental and physical factors that can lower the body’s energy fields. There are many, many, many causes. My consistent findings are that poor foot biomechanics cause a majority of latent pain in the body.

Latent pain is that pain that is present but not recognized until the physical area is palpated or pressed. At that time, the pain will not be perceived until trigger points are pressed (light, moderate, severe on a scale of 1-10). Latent pain found in multiple common trigger points in the body should always be a part of a general physical exam. Why is that?

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Latent pain is a symptom only. It lets you know that there is a general energy decrease or blockage to multiple body systems. When there are energy field blockages in the body, all body systems can be affected. Hence, energy field blockages to body systems can be the cause of multiple body symptoms. If these energy field blockages are not recognized, we can only treat symptoms. That is Western medicine’s approach, in general. If this direction in medicine continues, we can only surmise that our best doctors will never, ever be more than half right. If you can only treat symptoms and not recognize the cause, you can never use the term CURE!

My findings are all new to medical literature. They are consistent with the laws of nature. Poor or faulty foot biomechanics cause weakened neurotransmitter signals to be sent to the Central Nervous System. This causes bodily energy field weaknesses or blockages to all systems in general down to the cellular levels. Our treatment protocol is directed to realign and strengthen foot biomechanical weaknesses. Our treatment clears blocked energy fields and pain many times within minutes.

If the patient or doctor doesn’t recognize this new principle in medicine, nothing can change. The patient will stay where they are. The doctor will continue to be only half right. Western medicine will prevail, which ultimately leaves pain as the final winner.

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Controversial Aspects of fibromyalgia Pain

fibromyalgia pain and fatigue are the most common and intense symptoms that occur to people who suffer from the condition. Statistics indicate that an overwhelming number of 3.7 million Americans are confronted with fibromyalgia pain and other specific symptoms. Fibromyalgia is a neurological chronic condition that causes recidivating, intense pain in the muscles and interconnected soft tissues such as tendons and ligaments. Many people disregard fibromyalgia pain and fatigue, considering that they are self-induced symptoms, the product of people’s imagination. These conceptions, however, are far from the actual truth. Medical research results reveal that although there are psychological aspects involved in the development of fibromyalgia, the condition occurs due to neurological dysfunctions, and undoubtedly, fibromyalgia pain is real!

Fibromyalgia pain is described by patients in a multitude of ways: aching, burning, sour, radiating, stabbing or pressure. Although people with the disorder perceive fibromyalgia pain in a different way, they claim to always feel a certain degree of pain and discomfort in the muscles. Fibromyalgia pain is accompanied by a sensation of fatigue, discomfort, numbness or tingling.

The cause for recidivating fibromyalgia pain is considered to be abnormal brain activity. Medical scientists sustain that the presence of certain brain dysfunctions determine a pronounced increase of nervous excitability in the entire body. Unlike healthy people, patients with fibromyalgia perceive external stimuli in a very intense way. For instance, many people who suffer from fibromyalgia develop a sensibility to light and temperature as a consequence of nervous dysfunctions. Scientific experiments have revealed the fact that in the case of people with the disorder, fibromyalgia pain is emphasized by abnormal brain activity. When exposed to a stimulus of the same intensity, people with fibromyalgia might perceive a sensation of intense pain, while the majority of healthy people have no reactions to that particular stimulus.

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An interesting aspect of fibromyalgia is that all people with the disorder feel pain in the same body regions. Fibromyalgia pain is mainly located in specific spots on the body, called trigger points. There are nine pairs of trigger points on the body, and they are located in the following regions: the lower region of the skull, the back of the neck, the upper back, the mid-back, the lower back, the shoulders, the region of the buttocks, the elbows and knees and the region of the hips. The areas that surround the points where the fibromyalgia pain is perceived at maximum intensity are called tender points.

These trigger points and tender points have a major role in revealing the presence of fibromyalgia. Due to the fact that most physical examinations and routine laboratory analysis aren’t able to trace any signs of the disorder, by checking if the patient feels intense pain in these specific fibromyalgia pain regions, an appropriate diagnose can be established.

Although people with fibromyalgia mostly complain about muscular pain and a generalized state of exhaustion through the entire body, the fact is that the disorder can generate a lot more symptoms, some considered to be very serious. For instance, people that have been suffering from fibromyalgia for long periods of time may suffer from short-term memory loss, decreased ability of sustaining physical and mental effort, poor concentration, migraines, high blood pressure and accelerated heart activity.

Fibromyalgia is a serious condition and speed is vital in detecting its presence. Although at the time being there is no specific cure for fibromyalgia, most symptoms can be overcome and the patients’ general health condition can be substantially improved by following certain therapies and treatments. Fibromyalgia pain, fatigue, cognitive dysfunctions and poor mental abilities can be corrected through the means of an appropriate treatment, a good therapeutic program, healthy lifestyle and diet.

So, if you want more information about fibromyalgia pain and especially for fibromyalgia alternative therapy, please follow this link http://www.fibromyalgia-info-center.com.

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