“In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race-never quite sane in the night”, Mark Twain My father died at 93 last week. My...
Author: Dr Alex Robber
Linking together the causes of fibromyalgia: “Central Sensitization”
“The amygdala in the emotional center sees and hears everything that occurs to us instantaneously and is the trigger point for the fight or flight response “, Daniel Goleman. Many years ago I had hoped that it wouldn’t take long before most would finally give...
Fibromyalgia and Violence
” Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit” , Martin Luther King, Jr. Violence can be defined in many ways. It is anger at its peak in the forms of shouting, yelling, hitting, sexual and/ or physical and...
Fibromyalgia and the sugar addiction
“If only a small fraction of what is already known about the effects of sugar were to be revealed in relation to any other material used as a food additive, that material would promptly be banned” , John Yudkin This is my 79th post on...
Fibromyalgia and pain management strategies
” These are exciting and challenging times for the manual therapy professions. I believe that the pain science world is handing extremely valuable information to clinicians. We now have a greater understanding of the behaviour of pain states and we are becoming aware of the...
Fibromyalgia: Pseudo-science and Woo Woo
“Science is like an inoculation against charlatans who would have you believe whatever it is they tell you”, Neil de Grasse Tyson There are numerous claims made by those who practice or have beliefs in woo woo (irrational ideas based upon lack of scientific evidence)...
Fibromyalgia and major life transitions: accumulated life crises
“When you’re finished changing, you’re finished”, Benjamin Franklin It really is all about the brain and how new pathways can become established and old ones can be paths less travelled. So many report their fibromyalgia began with an accident, surgery, violence or another episodic event...
Fibromyalgia and Highly Sensitive Persons: “Orchid Children”
“The flourishing orchid spreads out its fragrance”, Confucius In the January 1, 2011 edition of The Globe and Mail A4 an article has resonated with me that is tied in to the issues I wrote about in my book. Based upon the work of Elaine Aron...
The multiple emotions of fibromyalgia
“Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like emotions”, Joseph Roux It’s almost the end of December already and I missed writing a blog in November. Seems I was trying to recover from the many crises (or at least perceived crises) in my life. The physiotherapist (Nick)...