Guide to understanding fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome

The objective of this guide is to inform and assist families and sufferers of these diseases so that they can achieve a better quality of life as patients and as people. It contains all information of interest on fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome as well as their definitions, symptoms, causes, treatments and recommendations to make day-to-day life easier and improve the quality of life of these people.

The ten golden rules of the Spanish Rheumatology Society (SER) are included with guidelines and useful advice for those affected by fibromyalgia.

Nursing Care Guide: Caring for the Carer in Primary Care

This guide is useful in preventing families from giving in and/or tiring of the role of carer.

It proposes an effective intervention programme through the Problem Solving Technique with the aim of decreasing the symptoms of anxiety, depression and increasing the well-being perceived in the carer at the beginning, during and at the end of the care process.

A Teacher’s Guide to Neuromuscular Disease

This guide aims to help teachers of students with neuromuscular disease better understand the challenges faced by children and adolescents affected by degenerative muscle disease.

It suggests strategies to improve the educational experience of the student at an academic and social level starting from a foundation of help, support and motivation to become involved in activities.

Headaches in Children

This guide aims to facilitate the detection of cephalalgia (tension, organic and migraine) in children. To this end, it provides useful information such as risk factors, characteristics and warning symptoms.

It offers guidelines to parents to aid in the prevention of headaches and to doctors to help in their detection, diagnosis and treatment.

Chronic Abdominal Pain and Recurring Abdominal Pain

This guide provides the definitions and classification of abdominal pain as well as its characteristic physiopathology.

It contains the general and specific methodology in the diagnostic approximation of this functional disorder and its treatment from a biopsychosocial perspective by means of cognitive behavioural therapy.

Aplicaciones móviles y salud

El 15 de febrero el periódico La Vanguardia publicó la siguiente noticia: “Tu salud en el móvil. El teléfono móvil se ha convertido en los últimos tiempos en una herramienta potentísima para, si no mejorar, al menos sí velar por nuestra salud.” En el artículo se explican algunos de los indicadores del gran crecimiento de las aplicaciones móviles para salud dirigidas al público general y a los profesionales.

Uno de los indicadores es el número de aplicaciones sobre salud y forma física para público en general en la AppStore de iPhone, que según el sitio web mobihealthnews en Abril de 2012 contaba con 13.600 apps. En este post queremos analizar algunos de los puntos más interesantes que se encuentran en el artículo de “La vanguardia”.

Good Practice in Postoperative and Procedural Pain Management

This guide contains different aspects that affect the management of psychological care compared to paediatric disease processes accompanied by pain. It offers a series of psychological strategies (guided imagination, distraction and hypnosis) to alleviate pain, reduce anxiety and contribute to better preparation for the invasive care interventions performed at these ages.

It also highlights the need to use information provided by the child him or herself as a reference record.

Treating pain in children and adolescents

This guide includes a list of clinical recommendations for the treatment of chronic pain.

Furthermore, the instructions included in the guide can help in deciding which policies and changes are required to determine future priority lines of research in this field.