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Can Chiropractic Care Help Relieve Symptoms of Fibromyalgia?

Updated: Jan 12

Can Chiropractic Care Help Relieve Symptoms of Fibromyalgia?

Fibromyalgia and chiropractic treatment
Fibromyalgia and chiropractic treatment


Many have suspected that spinal manipulation may alter the sensorimotor integration in the central nervous system and thus could treat central sensitisation syndrome


central sensitisation syndrome can cover many disorders like Fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome, chronic headache, temporomandibular disorder, and pelvic pain syndromes

- although the mechanism of cause is widely up for debate, central sensitisation is seen as an increase in the responsiveness of nociceptors in the central nervous system to normal stimuli, meaning what wouldn't hurt for others, would hurt for fibromyalgia patients



Fibromyalgia is a chronic condition causing pain, stiffness, and tenderness in your muscles, tendons, and joints

Patients often experience restless sleep, tiredness, fatigue, anxiety, depression, and disturbances in bowel movements

What differentiates fibromyalgia is that there is NO tissue inflammation, which is a key diagnostic factor



Results of the study that involved females between 18 and 55 that were already receiving pharmacological treatment


Patients received the chiropractic session twice a week for 3 weeks


After a 3 month check-up, the spinal adjustment group had a significantly lower pain score


The study concluded that patients with fibromyalgia could get effective treatment for pain, disease severity, and improvement in functionality




We have been helping our community for over 10+ years with their muscle and spinal problems. Please call Health Wise Chiropractic at 03 9467 7889 or book online to see if one of our Chiropractors in Sunbury or Melton/Strathtulloh could do the same for you!


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Chiropractic has moved online. We offer our online programs -STAND CORRECTED- To help you through the day.


They contain health advice for your conditions, nutritional advice, and exercises for you to do at home or at the workplace to help you achieve your health goals.


We understand that coming to the Chiropractic clinic may be costly and time-consuming.


This way if you can't make it into the chiropractic office, you can do any of our 20+ online health programs at your leisure.

Enjoy and we hope they spark a little bit of joy and help you achieve your health goals.


Each program contains

- Information about the conditions

- things to do and things to avoid

- nutrition advice

- all the stretches that are needed to help


The following conditions are now available for online sessions

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reference

2023 Jan 25. doi: 10.1002/pmrj.12953. Online ahead of print.

Effectiveness of spinal manipulation in addition to pharmacological treatment in fibromyalgia: A blinded randomized trial

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