About half of a small group of patients with fibromyalgia - a common syndrome that causes chronic pain and other symptoms - was found to have damage to nerve fibers in their skin and other evidence of a disease called small-fiber polyneuropathy (SFPN). Unlike fibromyalgia, which has had no known...
Researchers have developed a reliable way to use a finger-stick blood sample to detect fibromyalgia syndrome, a complicated pain disorder that often is difficult to diagnose. If it were someday made available to primary care physicians, the test could knock up to five years off of the wait for a...
Physicians from the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) and the University of Calgary have published a review article in the CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) to help family doctors diagnose and treat fibromyalgia. The article represents the first time researchers have published...
For many people who have fibromyalgia, even the thought of exercising is painful. Yet a new study from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center shows that exercise does not worsen the pain associated with the disorder and may even lessen it over time. The findings are published in the current online...
Fibromyalgia is a complex illness to diagnose and to treat. There is not yet a diagnostic test to establish that someone has it, there is no cure and many fibromyalgia symptoms - pain, fatigue, problems sleeping and memory and mood issues - can overlap with or get mistaken for other conditions...
I'm 23 and I have fibromyalgia. I've had it for almost a year and a half. I recently have been interested in joining a support group, to find community with others who also share my struggles, but a lot of places I look I only find people my parents age. I don't mind advice from those older than...
A small study completed in the US suggests that yoga may help alleviate the symptoms of fibromyalgia, a disorder that causes widespread pain; the participants also showed improvements in coping and other functions. The researchers urged that further studies now be done to evaluate yoga as a...