Ordinary Touches Multiply Into Severe Pain For Fibromyalgia Patients
...SVILLE---The millions of Americans who suffer from fibromyalgia livewith a two-edged sword: excruciating pain, acc... LeMay, one of Staud's patients, has been battling fibromyalgia since1993. The 30-year-old Lake City resident said the pain starts in one areaand usually spreads, s...Non-drug techniques help reduce symptoms of fibromyalgia
Patients with fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) who exercise and practice relaxationand other non-drug techniques report fewer symptoms such as pain, fatigue, andmorning stiffness than do patients who receive medication alone, according toscientists at the University of Missouri-Col...University Of Wisconsin to launch center to study how emotions affect health
...ysiology inwomen with two debilitating conditions, fibromyalgia and rheumatoid arthritis,with the goal of determining the benefits of maintaining a positive emotionaloutlook. In a second phase of the study, half the women in each group will be taught aspecial type of meditation. Differences will be compared betw...Husbands of fibromylagia sufferers in slightly poorer health, more depressed than other men
...rs whose wives or long-term partners suffered from fibromyalgia syndrome. For purposes of comparison, the investig...motional health. The men whose wives suffered from fibromyalgia also indicated how much the illness had affected their lives. A review of each mans medical records ...Fibromyalgia pain isn't all in patients' heads, new brain study finds
... new brain-scan study confirms scientifically what fibromyalgia patients have been telling a skeptical medical com...ly in pain. In fact, the study finds, people with fibromyalgia say they feel severe pain, and have measurable pain signals in their brains, from a gentle finger sq...Exercise therapy improves fibromyalgia
...le, cheap, and effective treatment for people with fibromyalgia (medically unexplained chronic muscular pain and j...ek's BMJ. Researchers identified 132 patients with fibromyalgia who were attending a hospital rheumatology clinic between January 1997 and June 1998. Patients were ...Exercise, talk therapy may help relieve some symptoms of Gulf War veterans' illnesses
...rans' illness have many symptoms that overlap with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome. Both of those disorders, which are more generally accepted as a distinct illness by physicians than the collection of illnesses formerly known as Gulf War syndrome, have been shown to respond to exercise and supportive i...Brain study of back pain sufferers yields intriguing results
...is similar to an altered pain perception effect in fibromyalgia patients recently reported by the same research te...ant to people without lower back pain. People with fibromyalgia felt about the same pain from a squeeze of the same intensity. But the squeeze's force must be incre...Women's health research registry aims to improve women's health for future generations
...registry geared for women. "My mother suffers from fibromyalgia (a form of rheumatism) and there's so little known about it. I hope my participation in the Cedars-Sinai Research Registry TM will in some way help her and maybe myself later along the way." Another Registry participant's interest was piqued afte...Study finds fibromyalgia prohibits sufferers from breast-feeding
New mothers with fibromyalgia (FM) face multiple barriers to breast-feeding their babies, according to a study published recently in the American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing. For the study, "Breast-feeding in Chronic Illness--The Voices of Women with Fibromyalgia," Karen M...Significant pain relief following gastric bypass surgery
...toms (neck, shoulder, spine, hip, knee, foot pain, fibromyalgia syndrome, etc.) before and after weight loss studi... musculoskeletal complaints and a 92% reduction in fibromyalgia syndrome pain (widespread pain and tenderness in muscles and soft tissue) between 6-12 months after ...Gender and sex hormones affect the brain's pain response and more, according to new studies
...ome conditions--persistent pain syndromes, such as fibromyalgia and TMJ (temporomandibular joint syndrome), for ex...in diseases characterized by chronic pain, such as fibromyalgia and TMJ, occur more often in women than in men. Zubieta's research has focused on a particular neur...Sleep disorders often indicate multiple health conditions
...uffer from multiple underlying conditions, such as fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue, that are reflected during sleep and disrupt the sleep process." Dr. Risk and colleagues from the Marlborough Center for Sleep Disorders administered polysomnograms (PSGs) to 50 patients who presented to a sleep center for nonr...Activity not out of the question for people with chronic pain
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Many people with fibromyalgia and other chronic pain conditions fear that activi...f the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md., found that fibromyalgia patients have similar average activity levels as people without those conditions. But it also found ......a Bateman, an internist who specializes in CFS and fibromyalgia and serves on the board of the American Association for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, has worked with about 500 CFS patients over the past 15 years. "In my clinical experience, I have found that CFS is among the most difficult conditions to improve at al...