You may remember me being excited to have met Dr. Andrew Holman at the beginning of last year. His main area of research has been into how cervical spinal cord compression appears in and effects fibromyalgia. In the most recent issue of Fibromyalgia & Chronic Pain LIFE magazine from the NFMCPA there is an article [...]

Earlier this year, the US Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee held the first ever senate hearing on pain. Sadly, most committee members were not present. Four doctors and one executive director of a nonprofit organization gave excellent expert testimonies, both verbal and written. Shortly before the hearing began, Jan Chambers from the [...]

2012 is the 20th anniversary of nationally celebrating a day for fibromyalgia awareness! Over the years I’d often wondered when National Fibromyalgia Awareness Day got started and last year I decided that I would share my findings with all of you during this year’s celebrations. Tom Hennessy, the founder of RESCIND, INC. (Repeal Existing Stereotypes [...]

Can you believe that Fibromyalgia Awareness Day (May 12th) is only two months away?! I’m cooking up a little something special to share with you, but in the mean time i wanted to share this great event. The National Fibromyalgia and Chronic Pain Association is once again having Walk to CURE FM, which started in [...]