The Cause Of Fibromyalgia

Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS) is a musculoskeletal illness (which causes chronic pain) and a chronic fatigue disorder. It can also change sleep patterns and cause the following: digestive disorders, chronic headaches, painful menstrual periods, temperature sensitivity, morning stiffness, numbness or tingling of extremities, and even cognitive memory problems. The name fibromyalgia comes from "fibro" in Latin meaning tissue, "my" in Greek meaning muscle, and "algia" (also Greek) meaning pain.(source 5)

CMOP-E shows the connection of the person and environment through participation in occupation. (Murnane, 2013). The person comprise of three performance components: cognition; physical and affection with spirituality as the core of the person (Turpin & Iwama, 2011). Dish washing requires sequencing, counting and attention which enable the person to perform the task in a logical manner (Clark, 2014). A cognitive barrier includes people who experience fibromyalgia may have difficulty in everyday attention, sequencing and episodic memory as this could prolonged dishwashing activity (Glass, 2007). A cognitive enabler is Ruby was able to remember how to operate the dishwasher and understand safety procedures as her memory is not affected.

She is oriented x3, alert, cooperative. Good short-term, long-term, and intermediate memory. No aphasia. Normal fund of knowledge. Normal attention and concentration.

There are so many common secondary symptoms that it is not unusual for a patient to be treated by multiple specialists for those symptoms over a period of years before they are diagnosed with FMS. Secondary symptoms need not be present for diagnosis, and will vary from one patient to the next.

     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,

Two psychological factors associated with fibromyalgia syndrome are lowered pain threshold and increased sensitivity to painful stimuli.

Everybody hurts! If you decide to join a local group, you will meet other fibromites who understand the black cloud you’re living under. If you met them on the street, you wouldn’t realize they were kindred spirits. That’s why fibromyalgia has been dubbed the invisible syndrome.

The claimant has a past medical history significant for fibromyalgia, fatigue, arthritis, chronic pain, joint pain, leg pain, frequent urination, and swelling.

Normal childhood infections and injuries are fairly simple to diagnose in childhood. It is simple to take a throat swab to find out if the teenager has strep throat or not. Unfortunately, some children have symptoms that are harder to diagnose. They may report symptoms like problems sleeping, fatigue, pain and achiness. While these could be symptoms of a variety of illnesses, it is possible that these symptoms could be caused by fibromyalgia. Known for causing pain in soft tissues and muscles around the joints, fibromyalgia is harder to diagnose in children than adults.

"Approximately 10 million Americans (2-4%) have Fibromyalgia with a ratio of about 8 to 2, women over men." This is a ratio that has been found by the National Fibromyalgia and Chronic Pain Association. Fibromyalgia is a disease that affects the body in many different ways. It comes with pain in the muscles, ligaments, and tendons. Along with chronic muscle pain, it also comes with fatigue, sleep problems, and painful trigger points. Although many doubt a diagnosis of Fibromyalgia, it is a real disease affecting so many people. This confusing diagnosis leads to daily struggles like fatigue, pain all throughout the body, and even depression from time to time, affecting not only the victim of the disease, but also the people around them.

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The pain and sensitivity experience with Fibromyalgia is due to chemical imbalance within the central nervous system. When a body is injured, a neurochemical called “Substance P,” which transmits pain signals throughout the body, is released into the spinal cord. In persons with fibromyalgia, the neurochemical “Substance P” is produced in large quantities, and so the brain thinks that the body is in a greater pain than it actually is. (Parker,

While some patients opt for surgery in order to relieve the painful symptoms of fibromyalgia, many utilize the alternative methods mentioned above. Fibromyalgia syndrome impairs the quality of life of two to four percent of the population and affects predominantly females with 9:1 female to male ratio (citation needed Whit et al. 2015). Therefore, some researchers suggest that fibromyalgia might be associated with serum testosterone levels. Patients with fibromyalgia syndrome have increased sensitization of the central nervous system and the occurrence of fibromyalgia symptoms can be detected by using functional magnetic resonance imaging to measure pain associated brain activities. White et al. 2015 presented a clinical study designed to determine if testosterone had a protective effect on patients against chronic pain associated with fibromyalgia. They used pre-clinical human brain imaging data to support a causal linkage between androgens and RVM (rostral ventromedial medulla) activity in the female brainstem. When the serum

My client, Catherine, is a 47-year-old single female. She has one daughter who is 11 years old. Catherine has full custody as the child’s father is willfully absent. Currently she is on disability after being diagnosed with Fibromyalgia in 2010. Before this diagnosis she was a loan officer for a credit union. Catherine’s main health concerns are headaches, allergies and digestive issues. In the last 5 years Catherine has had many major traumas in her life. She was diagnosed in 2010 with Lyme disease, Fibromyalgia, hypothyroidism and chronic migraines where subsequently she was unable to work. It was once she contracted Lyme disease did all the other issues show themselves. In the last 2 months my client has been able to participate in an exercise

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.