OPEN DAY APRIL 2008.

The “Fibromyalgia Open Day” began at 10-30am with group members attending with enquirers and the general public welcome to join us. Osteopath, Graham Broughton gave an excellent presentation in the morning followed by the  Chesterfield Law Centre in the afternoon. The group members were asked if they would like two or three speakers for the Open day with the members asking for two speakers and time to spend talking with each other.

Graham Broughton, Osteopath, has an interest in our condition and is highly knowledgable about fibromyalgia, Graham was one of our speakers at the 2005 Awareness Conference where MP’s and medical professionals were present. Graham spoke about the confusion surrounding fibromyalgia and asked the audience who is confused about our condition and why are they/we confused, the medical professionals, the patients themselves, everyone?

Fibromyalgia is a diagnosis of exclusion, the medical profession exclude all conditions that could cause the same symptoms as fibromyalgia, if none are present you are diagnosed with fms, many researchers are still looking for one cause whilst it is recognized and accepted that fibromyalgia is a “multisystem dysfunction”. Graham has been working for some time with a system known as Bioelectrical Impedance Measurement (BIM) Bioelectrical Impedance Measurement measures the electrical conductivity between specific points on the body by creating a “circuit” and then measuring the flow of electricity between those points. BIM devices have been consistently used in medicine to non invasively obtain important health information.

Graham gave an excellent talk and demonstration, via the flip chart, to demonstrate how the body works and how easy it is to disrupt its natural flow and the means by which to help rectify the problem, the lecture side of the hall was full and the talk was engrossing with members requesting that Graham be invited back to lecture on the subject.

To find out more about BIM log onto www.biomeridian.com

The Chesterfield Law center was represented by Teresa Waldron.

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Funded by the Equality and Human Rights Commission the Chesterfield Law Centre covers the entire East Midlands region and is able to offer free discrimination rights legal service. The Chesterfield Law Centre provides free legal advice and case work; their Disability Rights project delivers a service throughout the East Midlands, the area of law is for most disabled people (or people living with long term health conditions) who may be or have been discriminated against when accessing goods or services.

The service covers discrimination law and is there to help people who have been discriminated due to their gender, race, disability, faith and sexual orientation.  

The Chesterfield Law Centre may be contacted on 01246 550 674 or e-mail clc@chesterfieldlawcentre.org.uk .

Christine.  

Christine, Chair of the group and Awareness Co-ordinator.