Lifting the Bull: Overcoming Chronic Back Pain Fibromyalgia and Environmental Illness

Fibromyalgia, a chronically painful and disabling muscular syndrome, affects some five percent of our population.In one of Aesop's fables, a farmer gives his son a calf and instructs him to lift the small animal every day. As the calf grows in size so does the boy's strength until he is a young man able to lift the bull over his head. Diane Dawber builds her book on fibromyalgia -- a chronically painful and disabling muscular syndrome -- around this fable, telling how she was able to defeat her pain and regain her strength through a regimen of orthomolecular nutrition or nutrient supplements, bodywork exercise, and cleansing of her environment. The title also alludes to lifting the other kind of "bull" -- the various medical myths, wrong diagnoses, and ineffective pharmaceutical and surgical treatments involved with chronic pain syndromes like fibromyalgia -- that must also be lifted or dispelled if the five percent of our population who suffer from some degree of fibromyalgia are to recover.Diane Dawber is the author of 'Lifting the Bull: Overcoming Chronic Back Pain Fibromyalgia and Environmental Illness' with ISBN 9781550821994 and ISBN 1550821997.