Fibromyalgia or fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) is a complex condition that causes widespread pain, severe fatigue, brain fog, sleep disturbances, mental health challenges and other symptoms. While the exact cause remains unknown, conventional medicine often focuses on managing symptoms rather than addressing the root cause.
At SERENITY Holistic Medical Clinic, we believe in a comprehensive personalised holistic approach combining Modern Science with Ancient Wisdom to regain your health and vitality.
As well as widespread pain, other symptoms of fibromyalgia include:
- increased sensitivity to pain.
- muscle stiffness.
- difficulty getting to sleep or staying asleep, which can make you feel very tired (fatigue).
- problems with mental processes (known as “fibro-fog”), such as difficulty concentrating or remembering things.
- headaches.
- irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), a digestive condition that causes stomach pain and bloating.
- feelings of frustration, worry or depressed mood.
The symptoms of fibromyalgia are changeable – for example, they can sometimes suddenly improve or get worse.
Do you suffer from fibromyalgia and struggle to recover from your severe tiredness, difficulty concentrating, and widespread muscle pain?
Exercise, food sensitivity, and vitamin information might be confusing online and many patients can sometimes feel their treatment plans don’t fully address their unique needs and underlying causes.
Dr. Shehan’s background in Western medicine, Chinese medicine, Ayurvedic medicine, and personal training allows him to offer a one-of-a-kind approach that goes beyond typical therapy in the pursuit of remarkable results. With true care, compassion, and love to help you return to a functioning life, his holistic approach thinks outside the box and combines Modern Science with Ancient Wisdom to help explain the science of what is happening in this complex illness, how everything connects and what may be going on between your brain and body so you can start taking charge of your own health and prioritising what are the most important next steps.
Dr. Shehan uses acupuncture, marma and physical therapy (which blends Ayurvedic methods with scientific advances in the understanding of fascia), and works with you as a partner to help you create exercise and stretching regimens despite your chronic pain and exhaustion and helps to provide step by step help to better understand the important parts about your diet and supplements to determine what works best for you. This is to help heal your gut, get more deep restorative sleep, help treat your pain, tiredness and restore brain clarity.
Dr. Shehan provides powerful mind-body therapies that combine traditional, tried-and-true techniques with scientifically validated approaches to treat any anxiety or depression that frequently accompany fibromyalgia, emotional trauma that may predispose people to fibromyalgia, or the sadness, fear, anger, and guilt that may be more common in fibromyalgia due to changes in their bodies that increase pain sensitivity.