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Dr. Lowe How to Prepare Patient-to-Patient Fibromyalgia Research Foundation
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Helpful American Preventive Medical Association (APMA) The motto of the APMA is "Making Health Care Freedom a Reality." APMA is a political voice for health care practitioners who use complementary therapies. APMA stands for freedom of choice in health care for U.S. citizens. This means they actively fight the FDA, conventional medical associations, and insurance companies. APMA actively opposes such enemies of freedom and obstacles to medical advancement. It does so through activities on Capitol Hill, state legislatures, the courts, and the media. We urge readers to support the APMA. Fibromyalgia & Myofascial Pain Syndromes This site, by Devin Starlanyl, M.D., describes two medical conditions that often occur together. The disorders are among the most misdiagnosed of ailments. Dr. Starlanyl's site, like her books, provide information patients can use to get accurate diagnoses and better treatment. HealthyPlace
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Acquiring and using knowledge is essential to taking control of our health and improving it. The sites listed and described below provide a tremendous amount of information that readers can use to better their health. We encourage you to look over the list of sites drlowe.com links to, and to visit, read, and use the information on the sites. DIRECT
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Nutritional & Metabolic TeleMedicine Dr. Dommisse opens the homepage of his website with this quote: "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." (Robert Frost: "The Road Not Taken") The quote accurately represents the professional course of this courageous nutritional and metabolic physician. To follow that righteous course, he has had to stand up to and defeat what in my opinion are diabolical forces, including a "quackbuster" physician, the Arizona medical board, the kangaroo courts of Arizona, and "Quackbuster" and "Casewatch" websites. Those forces would, if only they could, deprive Arizona patients of any medical care other than what my old friend Robert S. Mendelsohn, MD, called "cut-burn-and-poison medicine." At great cost and by admirable perseverance, Dr. Dommisse still provides gentler, more scientifically-based, and more health-sustaining medicine to the patients who seek his care. Thyroid
Problem Advice Thyroid Problem Advice is an excellent informational website for thyroid patients. Samantha Long is the site's host. She knows what it's like to suffer from an underactive thyroid gland. And so, as you might expect, the information on her site is highly relevant to the needs of thyroid patients. Thyroid Talk provides help; advice; selected thyroid news; discussions for people with thyroid problems; and listings of thyroid practitioners, associations and meetings. As the site grows, we believe it will become one of the most valuable on the Internet to thyroid patients. We strongly recommend it. See our Myofascial Pain section
to read about the School and its Director,
Richard Finn,
CMTPM.
At the School, health care practitioners undergo training that leads to
certification as myofascial trigger point therapists. Treatment is available
for pain of myofascial origin. Referral
Service for National Association of
Myofascial Trigger Point Therapists
Thyroid UK is a non-profit organization in the United Kingdom. The organization campaigns for those with thyroid disease and provides information and support. The information and support can be of help to patients in any country. Patients in the United Kingdom, however, are in special need of the information and support. In that country, the conventional endocrinology, in league with the regulatory agency called the "General Medical Council," have a strangle hold on hypothyroid patients. By political tyranny exerted through the General Medical Council, conventional endocrinology forces doctors to submit to practice guidelines that keep hypothyroid and thyroid hormone resistance patients ill and susceptible to premature death. The guidelines are derived from false beliefs of conventional endocrinology that are based on bad science and financial incentives from corporations that profit from the sales of thyroxine and TSH assays. The information and support Thyroid UK provides may enable a patient to maneuver out of the strangle hold of conventional endocrinology and recover his or her health. We fully endorse the humanitarian efforts of Thyroid UK. Albert Ellis Institute The Albert Ellis Institute was
previously named the Institute for Rational-Emotive Therapy. The Institute is a
not-for-profit educational organization that was founded in 1968. According to the
Institute, "Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy is a humanistic, action-oriented
approach to emotional growth, first articulated by Dr. Albert Ellis in 1955, which
emphasizes individuals' capacity for creating their emotions; the ability to change and
overcome the past by focusing on the present; and the power to choose and implement
satisfying alternatives to current patterns."
Comment
on Dr. Albert Ellis "During the first
two-thirds of my life, I spent half my time in debilitating suicidal depression.
Eventually, I figured out that certain parts of my brain were under-regulated by thyroid
hormone. Supraphysiologic dosages of T3 (but not T4 or desiccated thyroid) gave me normal
brain function and completely relieved my suicidal depression. During my dark years of
intermittent hopelessness and despair, it was the writings and lectures of psychologist
Dr. Albert Ellis that saved me from death by my own hand. I carried his and Dr. Robert
Harper's A New Guide to Rational Living with me more often than I carried a wallet.
Since the time I acquired normal brain metabolism and freedom from debilitating
depression, I've continued to use Dr. Ellis' teachings. Practicing his philosophy of
rational thinking has helped me make the most of these far-better years. I provide this
link because I know Dr. Ellis' work can help others with impaired metabolism
(including those with fibromyalgia/chronic
fatigue syndrome, hypothyroidism, and thyroid hormone resistance) get through the roughest of times." Dr. Ellis' and other authors' books on rational living are available through the Web site of the Albert Ellis Institute. PubMed PubMed is a "search tool" of the National Library of Medicine. It is a retrieval system for published biomedical studies. The system was developed in conjunction with publishers of biomedical literature as a search tool for accessing literature citations and for linking to their full-text versions at the publishers' websites. The system searches some eight million citations in Medline (the world's largest data bank of published medical studies). It is supplemented by pre-Medline citations. Patients who use this system properly stand a good chance of finding answers to their medical questions. Instructions for using the system are available at the site. "The more we learn about our particular health problem, the more intelligently we can make our health care decisions. We encourage everyone to read, learn, and take control of their own health." —drlowe.com Dr. Richard
Podell Dr. Richard Podell is an exemplary integrative medical physician. He provides treatment for fibromyalgia/chronic fatigue syndrome patients as well as those with other medical problems. He emphasizes an integrative approach combining the judicious use of standard medical therapies with holistic support of the body's natural healing systems including nutrition, herbs, hormones, and mind-body approaches. His website contains an enormous amount of information on various disorders and their treatment with modern integrative methods.
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Craig Liebenson, a Los Angeles chiropractic physician, is one of the world's
foremost authorities on rehabilitation of the musculoskeletal system. At gymball.com,
he reviews four study reports that provide useful information on exercise and
musculoskeletal health. The reports are highly relevant to pain, especially of
the low back. As always, what Dr. Liebenson writes is clear, to the point, and
of practical use to both patients and clinicians.
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