The Groover Clinic Holistic Fibromyalgia Treatment Program
The Purpose of Our Holistic Fibromyalgia Treatment Program
Groover Clinic provides a holistic wellness program designed to quickly and thoroughly diagnose and treat the causes of your Fibromyalgia. Our scientific approach locates and eliminates the fundamental stressors causing the breakdowns in your body function. Treating your Fibromyalgia at its source allows us to achieve immediate, lasting improvements in your pain and fatigue. During our treatment program, your body regains its function, your wellness improves, and your Fibromyalgia disappears.
Our clinical objective is to help our patients achieve their wellness goals and live a happy, pain-free life. Patients participating in our Holistic Fibromyalgia Treatment Program are usually free from Fibromyalgia in six weeks or less, and report: complete relief from pain and fatigue, increased productivity at work, growth in earnings, improved sex life, and more fulfilling family life. Many of our recovered Fibromyalgia patients choose to enjoy vigorous exercise and a new, adventurous, active lifestyle.
Your seven step Holistic Fibromyalgia Treatment Program is individualized according to your personal needs. However, we have seven universal steps that keep you on the path to wellness and measure your progress. The seven steps of the Groover Clinic Holistic Fibromyalgia Treatment Program are: Introduction and patient Education, Diagnosis, Intensive Care, Intensive Care Progress Evaluation, Functional Care, Wellness Care, and Yearly Progress Evaluation
Our core treatment program usually consists of a four to six day initial evaluation, four to six weeks of intensive treatment followed by a progress evaluation, four to six months of monitored corrective treatment, and quarterly wellness visits including yearly reevaluations. The Treatment Program is designed for detailed evaluation of our patient's condition, identification and treatment causes of the condition, and progress evaluation to measure treatment success. Patients gain intellectual understanding of the healing process during every step of the Holistic Fibromyalgia Treatment Program. Each patient completes the treatment program with the tools necessary to maintain happiness and health. Your education begins with reading this website and will continue after you call or e-mail our office.
Step One: Introduction and Education
Your Step One: Introduction and Education begins when you read this website, and concludes with your seven part Introductory Fibromyalgia Consultation, summarized as follows:
When you arrive at Groover Clinic, your are greeted by our friendly staff, your Introductory Fibromyalgia Consultation paperwork is collected, and you receive an office tour. The doctor will review your symptoms, history, and the questionnaires that were included with your paperwork. He will begin to identify the primary stressors causing your Fibromyalgia.
Next you will receive a manual Fibromyalgia pressure point sensitivity examination, and supine leg length and Anatometer instrument upper cervical spinal examinations and a biomechanical examination of your pelvis. The doctor will present to you his consultation and examination findings and his recommended program of Fibromyalgia care.
Pending your acceptance as a patient, you will receive your laboratory test requisitions, additional questionnaires and paperwork, and further education or professional resources may be recommended.
For a complete description of Step One: Introduction and Patient Education, Click Here.
Step Two: Diagnosis
Your diagnostics include: a detailed Fibromyalgia symptoms review and history, complete physical examination (head, eye, ear, nose, throat, thorax, abdomen, orthopedic, neurological, manual total and comparative muscle strength, and visual inspection of spinal range of motion. You will receive spinal examinations of your upper cervical, lower cervical, thorax, and lumbar spine, pelvis, rib cage, and extremities. Diet, Nutrition, Hydration, Exercise, and Lifestyle assessments are completed, and computerized. Fibromyalgia pressure point sensitivity, total and comparative muscle strength, and spinal range of motion examinations are performed. You will receive an X-ray examination, analysis, and X-ray report for your upper cervical, lower cervical, thoracic, lumbar spine, and extremity joints (as needed). The doctor will present to you his current report of findings and care plan recommendations. A treatment trial is performed involving corrective care for the pelvis, upper cervical spine, and craniosacral system. Following this first upper cervical spinal corrective procedure, an upper cervical X-ray examination is and analysis are performed. Your response to your treatment trial is evaluated for diagnostic purposes. Instructions given for maintaining the corrective work your receive at Groover Clinic.
For a complete description of Step Two: Diagnosis, Click Here.
Step 3: Intensive Care
Your intensive care may involve 12-24 treatment visits over 4-12 weeks. Progress Evaluations are performed after every 12 treatment visits to monitor your progress and determine the care plan for the next phase of your care. Intensive care usually involves the following procedures: dietary, hydration, exercise, and lifestyle consultations to support your corrective care, pelvis, upper cervical, lower cervical, thorax, lumbar, rib cage, evaluations and manual corrective procedures performed to improve joint biomechanics, neuromuscular acupuncture and low level laser light therapy used for muscle spasm, altered nerve function, inflammation and pain, extremity joint (shoulder, elbow, wrist, knee, ankle, foot) physical examination, X-ray examination, corrective procedures, rehabilitation and corrective exercise, and core muscle assessment, corrective exercise instruction, and home exercise prescription.
For a complete description of Step Three: Intensive Care, Click Here.
Step Four: Intensive Care Progress Evaluation
Your Intensive Care Progress Evaluation is performed after each period of 12 intensive care treatment visits. The purpose of this evaluation is to assess improvements in your body function, pain, and fatigue, and to determine the structure and timing of the next phase of your Fibromyalgia care. The Intensive Care Progress Evaluation includes:
You complete another set of your original intake forms and questionnaires for comparison, and your current Fibromyalgia symptoms and history are reviewed. Previously abnormal examination findings are reevaluated, and the doctor presents to you his report concerning the progress achieved from your first period of intensive Fibromyalgia care. The doctor will help you plan for the next phase of your Fibromyalgia care, which may include continuation of intensive care, functional care, or wellness care.
For a complete description of Step Four: Intensive Care Progress Evaluation, Click Here.
Step Five: Functional Care
Your functional phase of care begins when your pain is relieved and your energy is restored. Without the imitations of Fibromyalgia pain and fatigue, your diet, nutrition, exercise, and lifestyle protocols are used to achieve higher stages of physical function. Through achieving higher function, you will become healthier and greatly decrease your chances for Fibromyalgia relapse.
Through your functional care you should expect to: further improve your spinal and joint biomechanics for better movement, advance your dietary practices for improved body chemistry, energy, and wellness, fine tune your functional nutrition program for greatest improvement in your body function, continue increasing your strength, flexibility, energy, physical, mental and emotional functioning, and continue making better lifestyle choices for greater wellness and function.
For a complete description of Step Five: Functional Care, Click Here.
Step Six and Seven: Wellness Care and Yearly Progress Evaluations
Your state of wellness is the stable condition of health obtained from the establishment and maintenance of your body’s highest function. As a new Fibromyalgia patient, your over all state of function should begin somewhere between 20 and 30%. When you first experience relief from pain and fatigue, your function should be around 45%. When your function is optimal and stable, you are well. The state of function for our Fibromyalgia patients when they have achieved wellness ranges between 65% and 90%.
Achieving wellness entails completion and maintenance of your Functional Care and regular monitoring of your function through quarterly Wellness Lifestyle Visits, including Yearly Progress Evaluations, with brief periods of intensive care as needed, Wellness Lifestyle Coaching and Health and Wellness Support.
For a complete description of Steps Six and Seven: Wellness Care and Yearly Progress Evaluations, Click Here.
Possible Complicating Factors to Your Recovery
Possible complicating factors to your recovery include care plan modifications, gastrointestinal parasitic infections, arthritic and surgical conditions, dropping out of care, confusion about the goal of healthcare, cultural conditioning, and making up for lost time.
For a complete description of Possible Complicating Factors to Your Recovery, Click Here.
Health Defined
The World Health Assembly Health Definition
The following definition of health was ratified during the first World Health Assembly and has not been modified since 1948:
“Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”
Your achievement of complete physical, mental, and social well-being is attained and maintained by development and maintenance of the highest functioning of your body, mind, and spirit. Groover Clinic is privileged to help you achieve and maintain your health.
Now that you are well informed about the Groover Clinic Holistic Fibromyalgia Treatment Program and the results you should expect to gain from our care, click on this link to learn about some of the patients we have helped and how we have helped them by reading Cases and Testimonials.
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