This is a thoroughly revised and updated version of "Making Sense of Fibromyalgia", endorsed by the Arthritis Foundation. This new volume continues to provide a comprehensive guide - for both patients and professionals - to this little-known and poorly understood syndrome.

In All About Fibromyalgia, the authors provide a thoroughly revised and updated version of the highly successful Making Sense of Fibromyalgia, which was endorsed by the Arthritis Foundation, Southern California Chapter. This new volume continues to provide a comprehensive guide - for both patients and professionals - to this little known and poorly understood syndrome. It has now also been completely updated with the current understanding of the disease, and includes information on the latest drug treatments.

PART I: THE WHYS AND WHEREFORES OF FIBROMYALGIA
1. How Our Understanding of Fibromyalgia Evolved
2. What is Fibromyalgia?
3. Who Get Fibromyalgia and Why?
PART II: BASIC SCIENCE AND FIBROMYALGIA
4. Why and How Do We Hurt?
5. What's Wrong with My Muscles?
6. How Do Stress, Sleep, Hormones, and the Immune System Interact and Relate to Fibromyalgia?
7. What Is the Autonomic Nervous System?
PART III: HOW AND WHERE THE BODY CAN BE AFFECTED BY FIBROMYALGIA
8. Generalized Complaints
9. "I'm Stiff and Achy" - Musculoskeletal Complaints
10. Tingles, Shocks, Wires, and Neurologic Complaints
11. Insight into Insides: Chest, Cardiovascular, and Other Concerns
PART IV: THE CLINICAL SPECTRUM OF FIBROMYALGIA
12. What Are the Regional and Localized Forms of Fibromyalgia
13. What Conditions Are Associated with Fibromyalgia
14. Controversial Syndromes and Their Relationship to Fibromyalgia
PART V: THE EVALUTION OF FIBROMYALGIA PATIENTS
15. What Happens at a Fibromyalgia Consultation?
16. Are You Sure It's Really Fibromyalgia?
17. I'm Not Crazy!
PART VI: IMPROVING YOUR QUALITY OF LIFE
18. Influences of Lifestyle and Environment on Fibromyalgia
19. The Influence of Exercise and Rehabilitation on the Mind and Body
20. How to Overcome Fibromyalgia
PART VII: MEDICINES AND OTHER THERAPIES USED FOR FIBROMYALGIA
21. Medicines That Work for Fibromyalgia
22. Drugs That Are Useful in Selected Fibromyalgia Patients
23. Behind the Hype: Unproven, Experimental, Herbal and Innovative Remedies
24. Work and Disability
PART VIII: WHERE ARE WE HEADED?
25. What's the Prognosis
26. The Future Holds a Lot of Hope
APPENDIX 1: FIBROMYALGIA RESOURCE MATERIALS
GLOSSARY