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By brightfeather • May 29th, 2007

The fibromyalgia I suffer from means that pounding the pavement is not healing exercise for me. In fact, I had to give up running and high impact aerobics because the result was joint pain and swelling from leaking synovial fluid. That’s why I’m always on the watch for fitness programs that I can modify to [...]

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Short, Sweet & Complete Abs
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You want to make sure you are working your deep abs the entire time. So focus on pulling your navel to your spine.
To keep tension out of your neck when doing crunches, think of holding an [...]

Headaches: just about everyone has had at least one in their lifetime. There’s a lucky few that have never had one. Headaches can be mild, tension caused, or the migraine, the most painful. There are cluster headaches, which is when you have one headache after another. They can occur daily for weeks at a time.

The [...]

Abnormal Pain Memory Helps To Explain Fibromyalgia (November 1, 2000) — The symptoms of fibromyalgia may be the result of a central nervous system that “remembers” pain sensations for an abnormally long time, according to research presented at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Scientific Meeting Oct. 29 — Nov. 2 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [...]

Fibromyalgia Awareness Day May 12
When I was diagnosed, I made a vow to myself that I may have fibromyalgia, but fibromyalgia will never have me. There is really no definitive cause and there’s no cure. Simply put, Fibromyalgia won’t kill you but you will die with it.
What is fibromyalgia?

Fibromyalgia (pronounced fy-bro-my-al-ja) is widespread pain [...]