Chronic pain can have detrimental effects on quality of life and a profound impact on one’s identity. The Pictorial Representation of Illness- and Self-Measure (PRISM), is a visual tool designed to measure the self-illness...
A lack of personalized approaches in non-medication pain management has prevented these alternative forms of treatment from achieving the desired efficacy. One hundred and ten female patients with fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) and...
To date, there is considerable evidence of the effectiveness of acupuncture in fibromyalgia syndrome (FM). However, it is not known in which body areas acupuncture is more effective. The objective of this study was to assess the...
The present research investigates the neural correlates of attentional bias in fibromyalgia (FM) with a dot-probe task performed during an electroencephalogram (EEG) recording.For this purpose, 30 female participants were...
: To evaluate the relationship between self-reported and performance-based measures of functioning in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), knee osteoarthritis (OA), and fibromyalgia (FM), and the influence of pain and fatigue.:...
Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and fibromyalgia (FM) are both complex conditions that are challenging to treat. This may be related to an incomplete understanding of their pathophysiology, itself obfuscated by their...
Chronic pain is a highly debilitating and difficult to treat condition, which affects the structure of the brain. While the development of chronic pain is moderately heritable, how disease-related alterations at the microscopic...
Although fibromyalgia is a common cause of chronic musculoskeletal pain, its aetiology and pathophysiology are uncertain. It has recently been suggested that fibromyalgia symptomatology represents a T lymphocyte-mediated immune...
Medical cannabis (MC) is becoming increasingly popular for the treatment of chronic pain conditions. In this study, we evaluated the effect of MC treatment on pain level and quality of sleep of patients with different medical...
Coccygodynia is a painful condition of the tailbone which occurs more commonly in females. The association of coccyx pain with pelvic floor symptoms and the prevalence of coccyx pain in women with pelvic pain has not previously...
To identify factors associated with FM development and recovery in patients with axial SpA (axSpA).The British Society of Rheumatology Biologics Register for Ankylosing Spondylitis (BSRBR-AS) recruited patients with axSpA from...
Fibromyalgia is characterized by diffuse musculoskeletal pain at the time of diagnosis, but many patients report their initial symptoms as being focal or local.To evaluate, prospectively, the initial location of body pain in...
