05/08/2026
Fibromyalgia… perhaps THIS IS asking a better question.
This fortuitously turned up on my feed
For years, people living with fibromyalgia have heard comments like:
“Your scans are normal.”
“Your blood tests are fine.”
“Maybe it’s just stress.”
Now, the largest genetic study ever conducted on fibromyalgia points towards something many researchers have suspected for years…
The nervous system appears to play a central role.
As someone who has spent my career studying neuroscience and working with people living with fibromyalgia, I find this incredibly encouraging.
Not because it means we’ve found the answer.
But because it means we’re asking better questions.
When someone walks into my clinic, I don’t just look at where they hurt.
I ask:
• How well is your nervous system controlling your movement?
• Can your muscles switch on when they should?
• Are your joints moving efficiently?
• Is your breathing free and relaxed?
• Are your balance, eyes and posture working together?
• What’s your immune system doing
• and that digestive system is it integrating correctly
Your brain doesn’t exist in isolation.
Every second it receives information from your muscles, joints, fascia, skin, organs and every movement you make.
If enough of those signals become inefficient, your nervous system has a much harder job making sense of the world around you.
That doesn’t mean fibromyalgia is “all in the brain.”
It means the brain and nervous system are trying to make decisions using information that may no longer be as accurate or as coordinated as it could be.
My goal has never been to treat a diagnosis.
My goal is to gently test what your body is no longer doing well, help restore those relationships, and then teach your nervous system to recognise better movement, better coordination and better function.
Science continues to evolve.
I’m excited to see research moving towards the nervous system, because every new piece of evidence helps us understand this complex condition a little better.
To everyone living with fibromyalgia…
There is hope.
Keep asking questions.
Keep testing.
Keep learning.
Because your nervous system can learn too.
But…are you actually being tested, a test is not just data, a test is looking for a pass or a fail!
I certainly test for what’s failing…
https://www.technologynetworks.com/genomics/news/largest-ever-genetic-study-of-fibromyalgia-points-to-a-neurological-origin-415085
https://www.technologynetworks.com/genomics/news/largest-ever-genetic-study-of-fibromyalgia-points-to-a-neurological-origin-415085
The largest-ever genetic study of fibromyalgia has identified new risk factors, a neurological origin, and potential new treatments for the condition.