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What is fibromyalgia?
Fibromyalgia (formerly known as fibrositis) is a chronic condition causing pain,
stiffness, and tenderness of the muscles, tendons, and joints. Fibromyalgia is
also characterized by restless
sleep, awakening feeling tired, fatigue, anxiety,
depression, and disturbances in bowel function.
While fibromyalgia is one of the most common diseases affecting the muscles, its cause is currently unknown. The painful tissues involved are not accompanied by tissue inflammation. Therefore, despite potentially disabling body pain, patients with fibromyalgia do not develop body damage or deformity. Fibromyalgia also does not cause damage to internal body organs. Therefore, fibromyalgia is different from many other rheumatic conditions (such as rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus, and polymyositis). In those diseases, tissue inflammation is the major cause of pain, stiffness and tenderness of the joints, tendons and muscles, and it can lead to joint deformity and damage to the internal organs or muscles.
What causes fibromyalgia?
The cause of fibromyalgia is not known. Patients experience pain in response to
stimuli that are normally not perceived as painful. Researchers have found
elevated levels of a nerve chemical signal, called substance P, and nerve growth
factor in the spinal fluid of fibromyalgia patients. The brain nerve chemical
serotonin is also relatively low in these patients. Also, patients with
fibromyalgia have impaired non-Rapid-Eye-Movement, or non-REM, sleep phase
(which likely explains the common feature of waking up fatigued and unrefreshed
in these patients). The onset of fibromyalgia has been associated with
psychological distress, trauma, and infection.
What are symptoms of fibromyalgia?
The universal symptom of fibromyalgia is pain. As mentioned earlier, the pain in
fibromyalgia is not caused by tissue inflammation. Instead, these patients seem
to have an increased sensitivity to many different sensory stimuli, and an
unusually low pain threshold. Minor sensory stimuli that ordinarily would not
cause pain in individuals can cause disabling pain in patients with
fibromyalgia. The body pain of fibromyalgia can be aggravated by noise, weather
change, and emotional stress.
The pain of fibromyalgia is generally widespread, involving both sides of the body. Pain usually affects the neck, buttocks, shoulders, arms, the upper back, and the chest. "Tender points" are localized tender areas of the body that can bring on widespread pain and muscle spasm when touched. Tender points are commonly found around the elbows, shoulders, knees, hips, back of the head, and the sides of the breast bone.
Fatigue occurs in 90 percent of patients. Fatigue may be related to abnormal sleep patterns commonly observed in these patients. Normally, there are several levels of depth of sleep. Getting enough of the deeper levels of sleep may be more important in refreshing a person than the total number of hours of sleep. Patients with fibromyalgia lack the deep, restorative level of sleep, called "non-rapid-eye- movement" (non-REM) sleep. Consequently, patients with fibromyalgia often awaken in the morning without feeling fully rested. Some patients awaken with muscle aches or a sensation of muscle fatigue as if they had been "working out" all night!
Mental and/or emotional disturbances occur in over half of fibromyalgia patients. These symptoms include poor concentration, forgetfulness, mood changes, irritability, depression, and anxiety. Since a firm diagnosis of fibromyalgia is difficult, and no confirmatory laboratory tests are available, patients with fibromyalgia are often misdiagnosed as having depression as their primary underlying problem.
Other
symptoms of fibromyalgia include migraine and tension headaches, numbness or
tingling of different parts of the body, abdominal pain related to irritable
bowel syndrome ("spastic colon"), and irritable bladder, causing painful and
frequent urination. Like fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome can cause
chronic
abdominal pain and other bowel disturbances without detectable inflammation
of the stomach or the intestines.
Each patient with fibromyalgia is unique.
Any of the above symptoms can occur intermittently and in different
combinations.
Why Pain T.E.M. over Prescriptive
medication?
Alternative medicine has become the choice of an increasing number of people over the past 5 years. These same individuals are also looking for a drug free alternative for pain management. Many individuals find themselves suffering with long term chronic back pain, but due to the prescriptive medication they may be currently taking, additional pain medication may not be advised due to the possiblilty of drup interaction.
Others however may just be looking for an effective may to control pain naturally. In answer to this growing demand Health Tech International has developed a unique and inexpensive disposable membrane that is charged with micro-current. This product was tested for four years and found to relieve pain in a wide variety of conditions, both chronic and acute at an astounding rate of 86%.
How does Pain T.E.M. Work Specifically for Chronic Pain?
The PAIN T.E.M. membrane contains no DRUGS or CHEMICALS. This membrane is statically charged and placed directly over the area of pain. The membrane is held in placed by specially designed surgical tape. Once the membrane makes contact it releases its subsensory current of micro-current impulses over a 48 hour period. Figure 1 & 2 PAIN T.E.M. works similar to a TENS unit in that it blocks the pain sensation, but goes a step further, in that it helps promote healing by neutralizing the positive field produced by injured cells and allowing the normal bio-processes to resume in that area. Pain T.E.M. provides a micro-current electrical stimulation that more closely approximates the naturally occurring bio-electric current in the body. The cuurent therfore is considered subsensory and cannot be felt. It provides "bio-stimulation" that stimulates cellular physiology and growth. It increases the adenosine triphosphate (APT) generation, amino acid transport and protein synthesis. This causes the body to heal itself at a much faster rate.
It has long been known that all life processes involve electricity,
and that biological processes can be affected by electrical treatment.
The cells of the human body are basically tiny electrolytic batteries,
each with a potential current flow of approximately 4 picoamps or 4 trillionths
of an ampere.
| These microcurrents flow through the body in an orderly manner when there is no pathology present. However, since injury disrupts the bio-electrical functions of the cells, the electrical activity of damaged cells is quite different from that of healthy ones. |
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There is more electrical resistance in injured cells, so the normal
energy flow through these cells is lower, impeding the healing processes
and maintaining the presence of pain. If the electrical resistance of such
injured cells can somehow be reduced, allowing the body's own electrical
energy easy access to those cells, the health of the cells will improve.
Inflammation may decrease, the healing process will be enhanced and pain
can be lessened.
Pain T.E.M. administers extremely low electrical current
to the area of injury. This energy can be stored and used by the injured
cells to lower their electrical resistance and provide additional energy
to aid the body's natural healing process and relieve pain.