Chronic musculoskeletal pain is an increasingly frequent feature in young people. Many exhibit a range of additional physical and psychological features fulfil criteria for fibromyalgia. Hypermobility, irritable bowel syndrome migraine are comorbid conditions. These all part mediated by dysfunction the autonomic nervous system commonly include fatigue, poor sleep brain fog. Anxiety, social with...

disturbances in fibromyalgia syndrome: relationship to pain and depression. Sleep disturbance is a widely reported and debilitating concomitant of fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) and plays a pivotal role in exacerbating patients reporting of symptoms. Bigatti and colleagues report a longitudinal study that examined self-reported sleep, pain, depression and physical functioning at baseline in FMS pa...

OBJECTIVE To describe the development and test the efficacy of a cognitive-behavioral intervention (CBT) for juvenile fibromyalgia. METHOD Sixty-seven children with fibromyalgia and their parents were recruited to participate in an 8-week intervention that included modules of pain management, psychoeducation, sleep hygiene, and activities of daily living. Children were taught techniques of co...

Fibromyalgia is characterized by chronic widespread pain and several additional symptoms such as fatigue, cognitive dysfunction, depressive episodes, and anxiety. The underlying pathophysiology of fibromyalgia is still poorly understood, and treatment is often unsatisfactory. Current research provides evidence for altered pain processing in chronic pain patients, and specifically in fibromyalgi...

Discomfort provoked by normally innocuous visual stimuli has been reported people with chronic pain. Visual discomfort may be higher in pain conditions which central sensitization is implicated, such as Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) and fibromyalgia. In an online study, we validated the Leiden Sensitivity Scale (L-VISS) (VDS) CRPS ( n = 57), fibromyalgia 75), general 53); investigated w...

Twenty years have passed since the publication of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) 1990 criteria for the classification of fibromyalgia (1). In this issue of Arthritis Care & Research, new ACR preliminary diagnostic criteria for fibromyalgia are presented (2). The new criteria accomplish the following: remove tender points from the criteria and as the central element in the fibromyalg...

OBJECTIVE Fibromyalgia is a troubling disease characterized by chronic pain. This study explored whether pain and other fibromyalgia symptoms are worse among women who had undergone a hysterectomy with or without an oophorectomy versus those who had not. METHODS Consecutive women who were seen at the Fibromyalgia Treatment Program at a tertiary medical center between 2001 and 2004 and who com...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the relation between measures of pain threshold and symptoms of distress to determine if fibromyalgia is a discrete construct/ disorder in the clinic. METHODS 627 patients seen at an outpatient rheumatology centre from 1993 to 1996 underwent tender point and dolorimetry examinations. All completed the assessment scales for fatigue, sleep disturbance, anxiety, depressi...

Fibromyalgia is a functional pain syndrome manifested by psychological symptoms such as dissociative symptoms, which are closely related to childhood trauma. The purpose of this research was compare female fibromyalgia patients and healthy females investigate the prevalence trauma symptoms. study included 51 followed up with diagnosis in Physical Medicine Rehabilitation Outpatient Clinic Bezmia...