Yoga helps ease the pain of fibromyalgia.(Life - Health)

Byline: JANE PORTER Special to the Times Union

Eight years ago, when Nancy Mongato found out she had fibromyalgia, a disorder that causes muscle pain and fatigue, she looked at her doctor and burst out laughing.

"You do realize that this is a chronic illness," her doctor said. "There is no cure."

But Mongato was relieved nonetheless.

"You just told me I'm not going to end up in a wheelchair," she said. "You just told me I have my life back."

Days earlier, Mongato's car was rear-ended just around the corner from her Guilderland home.

"I look at that car accident as a blessing," Mongato, 48, said.

The accident sent her to the hospital for an MRI, …