Fibromyalgia Information And Alternative Treatments Options

Diagnosis of FMS is often very difficult. There are many different symptoms that seem to be unrelated. Some of the symptoms such as fatigue overlap with many other diseases. A patient will often have to visit many different doctors before being properly diagnosed. Also, there currently is no lab test to rule whether or not a patient actually has FMS. As physicians become more aware of the disorder and its classic symptoms, it will be easier for them to diagnose it. Still, many other diseases and disorders must first be ruled out before the patient is diagnosed as having fibromyalgia. The American College of Rheumatology (ACR) has established some criteria for diagnosis: more than three months of muscular pain and tender points, there must be pain in all four quadrants of the body (top, bottom, left, right), and there must be at least eleven tender points (the ACR has established eighteen of these points). (Source 1)

Fibromyalgia has been described as a full-body migraine. Another common explanation is to compare everyday life with FMS as being similar to the aches and pains associated with a severe

Fibromyalgia – This condition causes individuals to have aching muscles all over often leaving them in quite a lot of pain, and many fatigued by the simplest of movements.

     Many people do not realize what effects your body can get when it does not have the proper physical needs to stay strong and healthy. One of the effects is a rheumatic syndrome called FIBROMYALGIA, also known as Fibrositis and Myofasical pain syndrome. This syndrome is diagnosed with a history of at least three months of widespread pain and tenderness in eleven to eighteen of tender-point sites. These points include: the neck, the shoulders, the chest, the rib cage, the lower back, the thighs, the knees, the arms(mainly the elbows), and the buttocks. The pain in these areas is defined as an overwhelming characteristic of FIBROMYALGIA and is long standing. These points are the trigger points,

of extremities, and even cognitive memory problems. The name fibromyalgia comes from "fibro" in Latin

Among children, the most common symptom of fibromyalgia is sore spots on specific muscles. If these tender spots are touched, they will hurt. A doctor will normally touch 18 spots on the teenager's body that are common locations for fibromyalgia pain. Patients who have experienced pain in at least five of these spots for at least three months are diagnosed with the condition. Teenagers may describe the soreness as tenderness, stiffness, aching, tightness or burning.

To diagnose this disorder, doctors used to check multiple different tender points on a person’s body for pain. Today, all the patient has to complain of is widespread pain across their body for more than 3 months. Generally there is no definitive test for fibromyalgia, all the tests performed are to rule out any other condition or illness. Diagnostic images might be used in this process as well, X-Rays and or an MRI may be used to examine the joints more closely to ensure that there isn’t any soft tissue damage or damage to the boney structures themselves. Only when everything else has been ruled out will the treating physician diagnose the patient with this condition. Blood values may be examined for any signs of inflammatory disease or infection, as well as serious disorders like Cancer. Physicians may also use electrodes to try and pick up the firing of these neurons to see if they can get an actual objective measurement.

Fibromyalgia is a chronic disorder that causes pain, fatigue and tenderness of the muscles. This disorder is found more often in women than in men. The reasons for this are unclear but since emotional distress is said to be a cause of Fibromyalgia, this could be because

Fibromyalgia was initially thought to be a musculoskeletal syndrome since maximum of the pain was felt in the muscles and other soft tissue. However, recent studies and research have shown that fibromyalgia is a central nervous system ailment which causes uncharacteristic pain processing and leads in pain amplification. The three chief symptoms that are common to virtually everybody who struggles with fibromyalgia are pain, tiredness and sleep disorders.

Musculoskeletal pain is a defining feature of Fibromyalgia, and is often accompanied by symptoms such as sleep disturbances, impaired concentration, fatigue, morning stiffness and impaired memory, urination and digestive disorders can also accompany this condition (Lannuccelli et

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List et al., in a case-control study (35) (level of evidence 3) found that 83% of a sample of 46 patients had pain onset

     “With so many people in so much pain, how could fibromyalgia not be a disease?” (Groopman 3) This question regarding the “condition of persistent muscle pain throughout the body, pain that is often accompanied by severe fatigue, insomnia, diarrhea and abdominal bloating, bladder irritation, and headache,” now known as fibromyalgia raises some rather interesting yet complicated issues in today’s health care field such as: What criteria must be met in order for a symptom or a set of symptoms, as is the case here, to be classified as an illness or a disorder? What does the term illness itself mean? What makes up the concept of health? In this paper, I attempt to tackle

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Included in the studies were 219 women participants all with fibromyalgia. Ninety-five of the participants were assigned to resistance training programs. These programs ranged from 16 to 21 weeks. Individual studies were again assessed for validity. Quality of evidence was shown as low in most studies. No large group studies have been reported with most studies containing less than 100 patients. Searches were not limited to English only publications. Primary authors were contacted for clarification, and additional information when indicated. Assessment of individual articles was included, the Cochrane ‘risk of bias’ tool, used to address seven specific domains. Other sources of bias