Learning about these lifestyle categories can help you get to the bottom of your problem and get your life back.
Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability (LOHAS) is about people who are focused on health, the environment, social justice, personal development and sustainable living. They are typically open to an integrated or holistic model of health care that encourages a shared decision making model. For anyone with complex, chronic pain LOHAS makes sense. Visit piedmontpmr.com if a LOHAS approach makes sense to you.
Learning about these lifestyle categories can help you get to the bottom of your problem and get your life back.
Dr. Schwartz is the Medical Director of the St. Francis Bon Secours Hospital Fibromyalgia Restorative Care Program. He is also the Medical Director of the South Carolina Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy and Fibromyalgia Support Group, which he founded in 1990.
Dr. Schwartz has numerous publications and lectured extensively on both Fibromyalgia and RSD/CRPS. His practice has special emphasis on patients with complex, chronic pain that have weather sensitive aspect to their symptoms.
He has a unique approach that reduces Total Load, the total number of things that do not allow someone to be well, and addresses autonomic dysfunction (eye, bowel, bladder, heart, skin, and movement disorders) associated with these conditions.
Learning about these lifestyle categories can help you get to the bottom of your problem and get your life back.
Generalized pain, weather sensitivity, irritable bowel, interstitial cystitis, non-cardiac chest pain, fatigue, brain fog, and depression are only a few of the common symptoms seen in patients with Fibromyalgia. These complaints are real and the condition is real.
Frequently however Fibromyalgia patients do not get any help. Their doctors may not listen, or just don’t know what to do. Narcotics are not the solution and medications alone are not enough. A holistic approach is needed to address the whole person. While recognizing that there will be no singular treatment that will lead to a cure helps with acceptance knowing that a clear strategy that addresses the root causes is needed.
