Fibromyalgia

A widely misunderstood and sometimes misdiagnosed chronic condition commonly characterized by widespread muscle pain, fatigue, concentration issues and sleep problems is known as Fibromyalgia. For the longest time muscle pains have been known as rheumatism and then as muscular rheumatism. Rheumatism is any disease marked by inflammation and pain in the joints. People who have been diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis and lupus are at increased risk of also developing fibromyalgia. Fibra (Latin) means fibrous tissue and has to do with painful tendons and ligaments, Myos (Greek) means muscles, Algos (Greek) means pain. The term fibrositis was founded by Gowers in 1904 and was not changed to fibromyalgia until 1976. Smythe laid the founder of…

Care and Fibromyalgia Fibromyalgia is not a specific disease. It is a disorder featuring musculoskeletal pain with fatigue, problems sleeping, memory issues, and mood swings. There does not appear to be any reason for these pains and complications, but researchers think that fibromyalgia might actually be a change in the way the brain receives and processes pain signals. There is currently no cure for fibromyalgia. Fibromyalgia pain is considered chronic and widespread. Chronic pain lasts at…

“Myalgia” is the medical term for muscle pain. It is often a symptom of another disease present in the body. It isn't a disease itself. So patients who report having this condition to their doctor have to undergo further testing to determine what the other underlying factors are. The severity and location of the pain both help in the diagnosis too. Once the doctor has all the information that he or she needs, they can make a determination of the specific type of muscle pain that someone has, so…

Fibromyalgia has often been referred to as the invisible disease. Millions of women and men every year are diagnosed with “chronic widespread pain” but they are sometimes dismissed because there is no outward evidence that this condition even exists. This paper will discuss the definition of fibromyalgia and who is at risk of developing this condition. This paper will discuss the different symptoms and difficult diagnosis of Fibromyalgia. Even though there is no cure for this condition there are…

Fibromyalgia is a disorder causes widespread musculoskeletal pain and is usually accompanied by memory, fatigue, mood and sleep issues. It is believed that fibromyalgia intensifies painful sensations that affect the way your brain receives pain signals. It is believed by some researchers that repeated nerve stimulation causes people's brains to change that have fibromyalgia. These changes involve abnormal levels of chemicals inside of the brain that signal pain to increase. It is also believed…

This pain can be a mild aching to a sharp consistent pain. The pain that's felt in the muscles, tendons, and ligaments that are around the joints. Fibromyalgia can also effect the bowels and urinary organs. It also effects the brain (headaches, fatigue,…

Fibromyalgia is immense pain throughout a person’s body with incapacitating fatigue, melancholy, and tension. A person will have a reduced pain threshold or tender spots. Over 12 million people have been diagnosed with fibromyalgia, most are women between the ages of 25 and 60. Men are less likely to get this ailment than women. It can lie dormant in a man or woman 's body until a traumatic event triggers it. Fibromyalgia syndrome is a common and chronic ailment characterized by sizable muscle…

validate the diagnosis of fibromyalgia? In diagnosing fibromyalgia, the patient should report a widespread (pain on both sides of the body) chronic pain for 3 or more months. During assessment, the patient should report moderate pain on palpation in no less than 11 of the 18 tender points, including the cervical, thoracic, or lumbar spine. These tender points include the sub-occipital muscle; the anterior lower cervical inter-transverse spaces at C5–7; the second rib costochondral junctions;…

Diseases of the muscular system grow more rapidly each day, especially since we use our muscles on a daily, hourly, minute, and second basis. One of the most common diseases, affecting an estimated 2 to 7 percent of the general population, is fibromyalgia. This is a chronic (long lasting) condition in which widespread body pain occurs for more than three months. Symptoms that accommodate this condition includes, but not limited to: fatigue, sleeping disorders, depression, irritable bowel…

Fibromyalgia syndrome (FM) is a condition typically characterized with wide spread pain (Arranz et al., 2010). Along with the pain several other symptoms are also very common such as fatigue, sleep disorders, depression, anxiety, cognitive difficulties, headache, low back pain, and illnesses like irritable bowel syndrome, chronic fatigue syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus and osteoarthritis. It has been estimated that between 2% and 8% of the world population has FM…