HEALTH FEATURE
An affliction called fibromyalgia
The holistic approach to its diagnosis and treatment by Dr Richa Singh of Perfect Bounce BY SMITI JAIN NARAYAN
Dr Richa Singh, a leading exponent of physiotherapy and a well-known authority on non-surgical solutions for many health ailments, throws light in this feature on a relatively lesser known condition called fibromyalgia and the treatment protocol needed for it. Fibromyalgia is a fairly common chronic pain illness, but is little understood by most of the people suffering from it. It starts as a “touch pain”, with hyper sensitivity to touch in a particular part of the body and can slowly spread to other parts and takes over the whole body where a patient would be in constant pain, starting from mild to moderate and going on to become chronic. The common mistake that people make is to put it down to muscle pain but fibromyalgia is more pervasive and can be traced to neurological cum orthopaedic issues. The first step to dealing with it is correct prognosis and diagnosis. “The management of fibromyalgia involves a combination of pain management, BENGALURU
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