Because osteopathy treats the whole person, it is well-suited to dealing with complicated health presentations such as in fibromyalgia.

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Fibromyalgia  is a disorder characterized by widespread muscle pain, joint stiffness, and fatigue. The condition is chronic, but pain comes and goes and moves about the body due to turmoil within the central nervous system.

 

Symptoms commonly involve multi-system breakdown resulting in fatigue, brain fog, poor sleep, shortness of breath, digestive problems, immune dysfunction, and pain.
 The disorder is often misdiagnosed or unrecognised. Both fibromyalgia & chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) are characterized by extreme fatigue, so it is possible that fibromyalgia is simply a different presentation of the same disorder causing CFS. The line between fibromyalgia fatigue and chronic fatigue syndrome is a very thin one. The Arthritis Foundation estimates that 50 to 70 percent of people with fibromyalgia also fit the criteria of chronic fatigue syndrome.

 

Since all of the body's systems are regulated through the nervous system, confused signals within the nervous system may impact any or all of these systems.
Stress, illness, trauma and exposure to environmental toxins may play a part in the cause.

Osteopathic treatment is able to help by 'dampening down', and removing abnormal activity within the nervous system. Dysfunction & restriction throughout the whole body is addressed, and blood flow is improved, allowing the body's systems to get back on track & self-repair.

Improvements will often start within a couple of treatments with good changes often evident within a month or two.