The American College of Rheumatology (ACR) published a new set of diagnostic criteria they are proposing for fibromyalgia in the May issue of the ACR journal Arthritis Care & Research. The new criteria includes common symptoms such as fatigue, sleep disturbances, and cognitive problems, as well as pain.
The original diagnostic criteria, established by the ACR in 1990, required the patient to have:
1) A history of widespread pain in all four quadrants of the body for a minimum duration...
Last week I spoke with Melinda Beck, health columnist for the Wall Street Journal for an hour. She was interviewing me for an article she... Read more »
A July 2010 survey, commissioned by HealthyWomen, revealed a concerning communications breakdown between people with chronic pain and their... Read more »
Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of Michigan have discovered a new clue in the mystery of what causes... Read more »
The first randomized clinical trial of nabilone for the treatment of fibromyalgia pain was recently conducted at the University of Manitoba... Read more »
A new study, presented at the 29th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Pain Society in Baltimore earlier this month, gave doctors one... Read more »
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Fibromyalgia, a disease that is still not completely understood, is the subject of much research. Besides the fatigue associated with fibromyalgia,... Read more »
I don't want the title to mislead you. There's no foolproof way to prevent all pain when you have fibromyalgia. But understanding how the FM pain... Read more »
If you are a chronic pain patient, you have most likely been asked to “rate your pain on a scale of 0 to 10, with 0 being no pain and 10 being the... Read more »
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About 10 years ago, the Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia (TSK) was developed and validated. It is a scale used to measure fear of movement or reinjury... Read more »
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Determining pain levels in patients is not an easy task since pain is such a subjective sensation. In verbal patients, they can be asked to rate... Read more »
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