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Fibromyalgia
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Fibromyalgia is a debilitating syndrome that leaves its sufferers feeling overwhelmed and hopeless. They often find themselves unable to keep up with their normal daily lives because of pain and fatigue. What they don't realize is that with fibromyalgia, being less active actually leads to more pain and fatigue. So the more they hurt, the less they do; and the less they do, the more they hurt. We at HPT are striving to help each patient with fibromyalgia end this frustrating cycle.
If you've been diagnosed with fibromyalgia, there is hope! We can give you one-on-one guidance through a personalized program that will help decrease your pain and fatigue and, most importantly, restore you to a normal, active lifestyle. We focus on your specific problem areas, strengths, and goals to make an individualized treatment plan just for you. And when you complete your time with us, you will have the know-how to continue managing your fibromyalgia symptoms for the rest of your life.
Your program will be customized to best target your particular problems and goals. Typically, patients in the fibromyalgia program come to therapy three times a week (twice in the clinic, once in the pool) for about four weeks. We use a combination of education, stretching, strengthening, aerobic exercise, nutritional counseling, aquatic therapy, and modalities for pain relief to get you on the road to recovery. Before you graduate from therapy, we will ensure that you are doing well with the home exercise program that we have designed for you.
We want to teach you how to develop lifetime habits to best manage your symptoms so that you can live a normal, healthy life. You can control your fibromyalgia, instead of letting it control you.
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