Your Fibromyalgia Workbook

A Handbook for People with Fibromyalgia and Muscle Pain ― Understand Fibromyalgia and Create a Treatment Plan with the Strategies in this Book

Research shows that people with a better understanding of their fibromyalgia-related pain, and the biology behind it, are able to move better, exercise longer, experience less pain and regain hope.  Your Fibromyalgia Workbook  is a handbook for people suffering from persistent pain. It will teach you the current neuroscience understanding of pain in a personalized way to help turn down your extra-sensitive nervous system.

Your Fibromyalgia Workbook - A Neuroscience Approach to the Understanding and Treatment of Fibromyalgia

The interactive patient book  Your Fibromyalgia Workbook  incorporates the latest neuroscience understanding of the pain and disability associated with fibromyalgia. Current research shows that patients with a better understanding of their pain, especially the biology behind their pain, are able to move better, exercise longer, experience less pain and have hope. Designed for patients and healthcare providers, this workbook includes sections requiring reflection, discussion and application of the information to their struggles with fibromyalgia, thus personalizing the message to their situation.

In this Fibromyalgia workbook you’ll learn:

• what fibromyalgia is
• the neuroscience behind fibromyalgia
• the areas of the brain involved with pain
• how fibromyalgia can contribute to mood swings, appetite changes, weight gain, sleep disturbance, fatigue, depression and more
• how the nervous system works
• how to design a treatment plan
• specific treatment strategies to help you manage fibromyalgia

Your Fibromyalgia Workbook combines the best research available with a compassionate heart for your struggle with pain. It also provides practical, clinically proven materials to help you learn to manage pain and move on with your life.

About the Author

Adriaan Louw, _{PT, PhD: Renowned Author and Pain Researcher}

Adriaan has taught throughout the US and internationally for 20 years at numerous national and international manual therapy, pain science and medical conferences. He is a Certified Spinal Manual Therapist, Therapeutic Pain Specialist and has authored and co-authored over 50 peer-reviewed articles, books and book chapters related to spinal disorders and pain science. He is the Director of the Therapeutic Neuroscience Research Group – an independent collaborative initiative studying pain neuroscience and is the Program Director of the Therapeutic Pain Specialist and Pain Science Fellowship post-graduate program for Evidence in Motion.

The Why You Hurt Series

Adriaan Louw has created a series of tools that work together seamlessly, whether you’re a clinician who wants to understand pain education and how to teach your patients, or someone with chronic pain who is looking for help.

From the Back Cover

This workbook incorporates the latest neuroscience research and is designed to provide patients and healthcare providers with a proven, systematic and easy way to understand the complexities of fibromyalgia.

It is estimated that between six and eight million people in the US suffer persistent, debilitating pain and disability associated with fibromyalgia. Current research shows that the more understanding patients have of their pain, especially the biology behind their pain, they are able to move better, exercise longer, experience less pain and have hope.

This workbook is designed in eight sessions—giving healthcare providers and patients a chance to work through the complexities of persistent pain in a meaningful and time-effective way.

The workbook includes sections requiring reflection, discussion and application of the information to their lives, thus personalizing the pain message to their situation. The sessions include the current state of affairs for fibromyalgia patients, understanding pain in fibromyalgia, bodily systems defending in response to pain, the extra-sensitive nervous system, fatigue, treatment-plan goals and pacing activity.

This workbook includes more than 30 new artist images centered on explaining the patient’s pain and enhancing the learning experience. This workbook is designed for both healthcare provider and patient and should be used as a guide to educate fibromyalgia patients about pain in conjunction with a movement-based program pacing patients back to function.