Reply to Quintner and Cohen.

Fibromyalgia falls foul of a fallacy.

Low Sensitivity of Anti-α-Fodrin Antibodies in Patients with Primary Sjögren’s Syndrome

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Maldynia as a moral judgment?

Lippe rejected out of hand the idea advanced by Morris [5] that pain was a pluralistic concept. Rather, he asserted “the biomedical basis of maldynia.” In Lippe’s medicocentric view of pain, “maldynia” was neither a symptom nor a syndrome but an “illness with endogenous and exogenous components.” Thus defined, “eudynia” becomes a teleologically beneficial mechanism, whereas “maldynia” is “usele...

Response to letter to the editor by Dr. Cohen and Dr. Quintner.

Dear Editor, I appreciate the opportunity to respond to the letter to the editor of Drs. Cohen and Quintner (the authors), prompted by the reviewof theMuscle and Myofascial Pain section of the 2005 IASP Core Curriculum (IASP CC) [1]. The authors are acknowledged for their persistence in challenging inconsistencies in the constructs of the myofascial syndrome (and fibromyalgia). Indeed, and unfo...

Re: Are peripheral pain generators important in fibromyalgia and chronic widespread pain?

Based on the characteristic and distribution of pain, and it was totally relieved with the resolution of right upper lobe infiltrates, it is undoubted that the right brachial plexus root was irritated by the inflammation of the right lung. There have been three cases of Pancoast’s syndrome caused by infectious disease without Homer’s syndrome, and all of them have pain in the arm or shoulder [3...