QUOTE(Goibniu @ Oct 18 2012, 05:29 PM)
What I'm going to suggest isn't magic based, but it happens that I've been a therapist for a lot of years and I treat people with fibromyalgia fairly often and get fairly good results.
In my experience fibromyalgia isn't caused by just one thing. It is caused by a combination of injuries. I have heard that it may be caused by chronic fatigue syndrome so there could be some viral component in some cases, but normally it is through injuries. When I went to school it was suggested that many of the people with FM have been in car accidents, but they didn't know for sure what caused it. I agree that most people with FM have been in car accidents, sometimes multiple car accidents. But not all have been in car accidents. What I have found, however, is that all people with FM have a lot of disk damage. They might have one herniated disk or more than one, but they have noticeable and significant disk damage. The disk problems might be only part of the problem, but we can treat disk damage and herniation with the McKenzie Technique. Normally I can get good results treating chronic disk damage and get long term results 85% of the time. When I use the same techniques to treat the lower back disks on a client with FM the rate of success is lower, but I would guess around 60% of the time I get good results. But while with the normal chronic low back pain cases we can get rid of almost all of the client's pain in the case of clients with FM we can only get rid of about half of the pain. If we can get rid of half of the pain and symptoms we consider it to be a good acceptable result. It isn't perfect, but we are getting better more consistent results with FM clients than anyone else I've heard of.
Draw, you live in the UK I think. The McKenzie Technique is standard treatment there for disk herniation from what I know. Get a referral from a doctor for your girlfriend to be treated for disk herniation. You don't have to mention that it is also useful with the FM as this hasn't been proven yet in any large scale studies. This is based on what I've been doing the past 15 years though and a few hundred clients. I have no doubt that she does have a disk herniation. There are also some self help methods based on the McKenzie Technique that you can learn from You Tube. Sorry for interrupting a thread about magical powers with my mundane babblings, but I do know a bit about.
Something like this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBOp-ugJbTQ...51F97D6BF8127E8
I think your spot on goibniu about there being a variety of causes for fybro Several family members of mine have had it since the 80's (no I'm not kidding) ,back when they were calling it M.E. I also think it may in some cases it might be viral. My relatives have tried every remedy and treatment on the market. One of them even went on a controversial treatment of vitamin c a few years after she got week and she literally went orange for a while till we begged her to stop. I think much like the large umbrella of cancer ,there's a variety of causes for this illness and each case has to be thoroughly investigated before heaping it in the already full chronic fatigue basket.Oh by the way I too am sorry for this health issue posting in the magickal thread.