Михаил Грищенко

7 simple tips for treating fibromyalgia. Medicine still cannot give a single clear answer to the question of what causes muscle pain or, to put it more precisely, fibromyalgia (a condition in which a person feels pain despite the absence of obvious signs of inflammation or of direct injury). Even so, the symptoms of this disorder can be eased and removed with medical and complementary forms of therapy.

There are quite a few ways of classifying headaches. First and foremost, they can be divided into primary and secondary headaches.

Multicoloured strips scattered in patterns across shoulders, knees, backs or even faces are something you may have seen not only on athletes — volleyball players, track-and-field athletes, tennis players — but on perfectly ordinary people too. This is kinesiology tape, a therapeutic tape used to improve mobility, to give support to joints and ligaments and to reduce pain and swelling. Lately, tapes have found a use in cosmetology as well.

I can no longer remember when I first came across this method. It was many years ago, and over the years it has grown the small tricks and refinements I added while working both with patients and on my own blocks. In any case, my huge thanks to all the authors of publications on the subject, whose material I used when shaping this method for my own work, which is based on C. G. Jung's method of free association.