Your Guide to Treating Fibromyalgia by Terry Springer - HTML preview

Chapter 7: The Future: "FibroTrack"

Effective systems are the key to an effective management process. Systems are useful because they foster habits and provide channels for taking effective action. As we discussed in Chapter 6, there are a variety of systems that can be used to manage your fibromyalgia from a data collection and analysis standpoint. “Old world” systems, such as the use of journals and notebooks have deep inherent flaws. These “systems” do not facilitate putting your data to use. They compartmentalize and fragment data, and make it difficult to evaluate in its entirety and in context. Paper-based systems are rudimentary and inefficient, and therefore not ideal for tackling the Elusive Fiend. It is important to recognize that data collection is 90% pointless (the remaining 10% is empowerment) unless you implement a focused system that can allow you to effectively evaluate and convert your data into defined action plans.

FibroTrack: Internet Enhanced Self-Management

FibroTrack is an intuitive, graphical user interface “cloud based” system that has been specifically designed from the ground up to facilitate all aspects of managing your fibromyalgia.

FibroTrack provides users with a wealth of tools – all available at the simple click of a mouse – all designed to be integrated into an overall fibromyalgia specific system:

• Educational resources including hundreds of articles, blogs, Webinars and videos - all accessible online via computer or mobile device.
• Simple, intuitive symptom tracking in incredible detail including user defined symptoms and treatment options research tools integrated into the symptoms help functions.
• Treatment Program tools including detailed interfaces to research and create new treatment programs consisting of pharmaceuticals, dietary supplements, diet changes, pain medications, therapy options and exercise.
• Tracking tools associated with all aspects of your treatment program including life events which impact or are impacted by your fibromyalgia.
• Natural Products Comprehensive Database alternative treatment data integration - the Internet’s largest research based repository of treatment information.
• Comprehensive reporting and evaluation tools including user defined reports. Reports include graphs, charts and animations!
• Online contact management and communications tools.
• Data sharing capabilities with healthcare providers including communications tools and shared online reporting
• Online support groups - with built in "smart-matching" capabilities that link users to others with similar symptoms and profile data
• Social networking functions to enable support groups and easy tracking of general ongoing treatment efforts.
• Complete user control over all personal medical data with tools to ensure privacy. Users control what data is shared and what is kept totally private.
• Discussion forums
• Webinars - ongoing expert interviews and online training seminars on a huge variety of fibromyalgia treatment related topics.
• Secure server with state of the art data protection capabilities for security.
• Much, much more!

Capabilities like FibroTrack were not possible as recently as several years ago. However, technology has fortunately moved in directions that enable treatment approaches previously thought to be ridiculously impossible. Now, we are able to achieve easy data collection from anywhere, receive targeted research, achieve intelligent analysis – all of which is facilitated by sophisticated technology and accessible through intuitive graphical interfaces. In other words, analysis capabilities that doctors have never dreamed of are now possible, and in fact accessible in the palm of your hand!

While we certainly feel the FibroTrack is by far the best means of building and implementing an effective self-management system, please remember that it is not required. The purpose of this ebook is to educate you relative to how an effective self-management program should be structured and operated.

We invite you to visit our website, www.fibromyalgia-treatment.com, where you will find a wealth of useful information. In addition to our fibromyalgia self-management tool (FibroTrack), you will find researched-based articles on a wide variety of fibromyalgia-related topics, including common symptoms, treatments, associated conditions, diagnostic methods, and more. In addition, you can check out our blog, meet other members through online support groups and link-outs to popular social networking sites, and find a variety of other resources to assist you.

Remember, knowledge can lead to success but not without action. Take action by sharing our website with others who may have a need for it. Share it with your team members, family, and friends. Use our FibroTrack tool to help manage your fibromyalgia; it offers a comprehensive system of symptom and treatment tracking, and does all of the work for you. You have enough on your plate while trying to chase down the Elusive Fiend; let us help you by making your self-management as simple and as streamlined as possible.

In addition, we would greatly appreciate your feedback on this ebook, and as with our website, we ask that you share it with others so that they too can benefit from the information contained herein. Finally, if you feel that FibroTrack is the best system for you to achieve successful self-management of your fibromyalgia, but you are unable to afford it, please contact us. We do not wish for anyone who really has a need to be excluded due to costs.

Also note - 10% of all net proceeds from FibroTrack go toward funding fibromyalgia awareness and research efforts!

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