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For the first time in Texas, a conference will offer an integrative look at successful ways to deal with chronic pain and fibromyalgia. The North Texas Fibromyalgia and Chronic Pain Conference, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, June 7, offers a no-stress opportunity to hear well-known speakers talk about integrative and alternative methods they use with their patients to manage chronic pain from a range of conditions, including car wrecks, old sports injuries, traumatic accidents and fibromyalgia. Attendees will have opportunities to ask questions. Those suffering with chronic pain, along with healthcare professionals, therapists, ministers and others who help those in chronic pain, will find the sessions useful.

Experts who will be speaking include physicians, a chiropractor, pharmacists and therapists, as well as others, who successfully help their patients manage pain. This daylong event will provide a window to "what else is out there" in dealing with chronic pain. Keynote speaker is Dr. Wm. Marcus Spurlock of Renewed Vitality in Dallas. Other speakers include Dr. Jerry Tennant, Bob Scarbrough and Lark Scarbrough, both registered pharmacists with Abrams Royal Compounding Pharmacy; chiropractor Darcy Brunk; Thomas Woods, an LMT and acupuncture instructure; Julie Euseppi, a therapist and yoga teacher; and Amie Rogers, a wellness coach.

Registration is $50 and includes lunch at the Doubletree by Hilton in Richardson. Go to the conference page  for information about the speakers and to register. Join the conversation at the conference Facebook page. 

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The ingaugural North Texas Fibromyalgia Conference, focusing on alternative ideas for dealing with fibromyalgia, will be held Saturday, June 7 in Richardson. Speakers include Dr. Wm. Marcus Spurlock of Dallas and Dr. Jerry Tennant of Irving, both of whom have experience treating fibro patients and their myriad symptoms.

Very few events address the illnes and none have beenheld in the Dallas-Fort Worth area specifically for those with fibromyalgia. The event website www.northtexasfibro.com and the event Facebook page is www.facebook.com/northtexasfibro have more information about registering for the event.

"Even though fibro is a prevalent condition -- most experts believe about 5 million people in the U.S. suffer with the disease -- there are few, if any, treatmens that always work for all patients," says Tammy Lahutsky, a vice president at Avazzia, which organized the conference. "The result is patients spend incredible amounts of time and money seeking ideas of what may offer relief from their symptoms. They go from one doctor to another, one practitioner to another.

"And as many as 60 different symptoms, ranging from pain to irritable bowel syndrome to fibro fog, are connected to the illness," she says.

Other speakers at the one-day event includ Darcy Brunk, a chiropractor; Bob Scarbrough and Lark Scarbrough, both registered pharmacists with Abrams Royal Compounding Pharmacy in Dallas and Plano; Laurie Taylor, a grief therapist; Julie Euseppi, LCSW and yoga instructor; Thomas Woods, LMT/Dipl.Ac.; and Amie Rogers, a wellness coach.