Condition

Fibromyalgia Treatment Newport Beach

How we adapt

  • Lighter and shorter than standard treatment
  • Graded activity and pacing
  • Treating the specific problems, not the condition
  • Working alongside your medical team
Dr. Billy DeMoss assessing a patient at DeMoss Chiropractic, Newport Beach

Fibromyalgia is a chronic condition involving widespread pain, fatigue, disturbed sleep and difficulty concentrating. It is understood as a problem of how pain is processed rather than damage in the tissues themselves, which is why it does not show up on scans.

What Fibromyalgia Treatment Newport Beach can offer

Supportive care as one part of a broader plan. Fibromyalgia Treatment Newport Beach patients here get gentle manual therapy for the specific areas that are stiff or restricted, help with graded activity, and practical work on sleep and pacing — all of which have reasonable support in the wider evidence.

How treatment is adapted

Lighter and shorter than for most conditions. People with fibromyalgia frequently have heightened pain sensitivity, and treatment that would be routine for someone else can provoke a flare lasting days. We start conservatively and increase only if it is tolerated.

Pacing, which matters more than anything we do

The common pattern is doing a great deal on a good day and paying for it across the next three. Steady, moderate activity beats that cycle, and it is the single most useful change most people make. It is also the hardest, and it is worth working at properly.

What we are not claiming

That we treat or resolve fibromyalgia. Nobody does, and a practitioner who says otherwise is worth being wary of. What manual therapy can do is address specific musculoskeletal problems sitting alongside it, which people with fibromyalgia get like everybody else and which are frequently dismissed as just the fibromyalgia.

Working with your medical team

Your physician or rheumatologist leads. We are one supportive element, and we are glad to work alongside them. If care here is not producing anything useful after a fair trial, we will say so rather than continuing indefinitely.

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