Fibromyalgia: Fitting the Pieces Together
Understanding Fibromyalgia includes the physiology of the condition, role of sleep, medications, and treatment options including allopathic and complimentary & alternative medicine. This presentation, literally, will fit together the pieces of the puzzle called, “fibromyalgia.”
Essential Ingredients of Self Management
Certain key elements have been shown to help decrease the experience of pain and lead to a better overall quality of life for chronic pain patients. This presentation identifies key ingredients essential to an effective self-management strategy and suggests ways to motivate patients to implement these changes in their lives.
Jumpstart Your Fibromyalgia Wellness Plan with Nutrition
To protect and optimize health, you must attend to all lifestyle factors that affect it: diet, physical activity, stress, rest and sleep, emotions, as well as nonphysical (spiritual) influences. This presentation includes the mechanisms of illness modulated by diet; including food choices to emphasize and ones to minimize.
Advocacy to Make A Change
Dr. Ostalecki lives advocacy and carries her mission throughout all aspects of her life. She will share her personal journey and provide useful strategies for strengthening advocacy skills. Also including information on grassroots advocacy, tips on contacting decision makers and guidance for avoiding common advocacy mistakes.
Rebuilding Wellness
Patients need to balance healthy food choices with many of the non healthy foods, in our society. Presentation includes the following sections: food combining, organic vs inorganic, navigating the grocery store, juggling nutritional routines and life, digestive disorders and food sensitivities.
