 | The Arthritis Foundation's Guide to Good Living With Fibromyalgia by Edited by The Arthritis Foundation
Buy used from: $0.01 Directed at the patient &/or relation, anonymously authored book describes in plain terms the diagnosis and management of the fibromyalgia syndrome emphasising the patient's role in her own self-management under appropriate medical supervision. There are lots of treatments but no cures.
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 | Fibromyalgia For Dummies (For Dummies (Health & Fitness)) by Roland Staud
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $7.92 Directed at the patient &/or relative. Despite the title of "Dummies" the lead author is a professor and major researcher in the complicated field of neurochemistry in fibromyalgia. Clearly laid out, uncritical of the multiple forms of "alternative" treatment which bring hope but rarely benefit.
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 | Fibromyalgia: An Essential Guide for Patients and Their Families by Daniel J. Wallace
Buy new: $15.56 / Used from: $1.96 Directed as it says at the patient and family. Written by a lead practitioner and researcher in the field, in an easy to read undramatized manner, describing what was known in 2003, and emphasizing self-management under professional supervision.
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 | Fibromyalgia and Other Central Pain Syndromes
Buy new: $129.00 / Used from: $58.47 Directed at the profession, not for lay readers. In 35 chapters by 43 authors describes exhaustively what was known in 2004. Refrains from discussing the negative criticisms levelled at the diagnosis.
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 | The Fibromyalgia Syndrome: A Clinical Case Definition for Practitioners (Journal of Musculoskeletal Pain, V. 11, No. 4) by Irwin Jon Russell
Buy new: $15.57 / Used from: $11.01 Book directed at the professionals. The 1990 American College of Rheumatology definition of fibromyalgia ignored all symptoms other than pain. At a 2001 conference in Canada the definition was amended.
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 | Sleep and Pain
Buy new: $80.00 / Used from: $126.78 Directed at the professional, and very costly. Conference held by the International Association for the Study of Pain, 21 chapters by leading experts, including segments devoted to the issues of pain and sleeplessness in fibromyalgia
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 | Beyond Pain: Making the Mind-Body Connection by Angela Mailis-Gagnon
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $3.99 Directed at the general public, the author directs the pain clinic in the hospital where Smythe and Moldofsky produced early studies to define fibromyalgia. There are many fascinating case studies. She explains why she does not believe fibromyalgia is a distinct condition.
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 | Under the Medical Gaze: Facts and Fictions of Chronic Pain by Susan Greenhalgh
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $0.01 Directed at the general reader. Autobiographical description by a highly educated professional who was emotionally devastated when diagnosed with fibromyalgia, only to be reassured later the diagnosis was in error. Raises the whole question of whether a diagnosis can be made for a condition characterized by "symptoms without signs."
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 | Fibromyalgia and Chronic Myofascial Pain: A Survival Manual (2nd Edition) by Devin J. Starlanyl
Buy new: $14.93 / Used from: $5.41 Directed at the patient by an author who makes much of the book an autobiography, describing her own sufferings with the condition and using much of the 400 pages to discuss myofascial pain syndrome which is NOT fibromyalgia. She has some unique concepts on fascia and ground substance, not shared by the medical profession.
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