When pain is severe, it interferes with sleep, which worsens pain, mood, cognitive ability, and so on. Treatments aim to break this cycle and reverse its direction. In other words, when reducing pain, allows sleep to become easier, which further reduces pain and fatigue, and so on. The treatments for fibromyalgia sound easy in that they all read like basic practices for good health and well being. Physical therapy may be helpful and could include such techniques as heat, ice, massage, whirlpool, and electrical stimulation to help control pain.
Some patients benefit from medication for pain relief.
However, whatever is wrong with the fibromyalgia body makes things like exercise and sleep a challenge. Nonetheless, with much patience and a good understanding of one's body's reactions, people with this condition can improve how they feel. Exercise may sound to others like an easy antidote. However, when you are in pain, exercise is not easy. Furthermore, people with fibromyalgia do not respond to exercise like other people and need to approach it gradually.