Vagus nerve stimulation in musculoskeletal diseases.
The vagus nerve is the main nerve of the parasympathetic autonomic nervous system. Beyond its vegetative functions, the vagus nerve possesses anti-inflammatory and analgesic properties. Init...
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Maintaining musculoskeletal health using a behavioural therapy approach: a population-based randomised controlled trial (the MAmMOTH Study).
Cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) has been shown to be effective in the management of chronic widespread pain (CWP); we now test whether it can onset among adults at high risk.A populatio...
Exploratory study into the relationship between the symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)/myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) and fibromyalgia (FM) using a quasiexperimental design.
To explore the relationship between symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)/myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) and fibromyalgia (FM). The hypothesis predicated that there would be no signific...
Altered central pain processing in fibromyalgia-A multimodal neuroimaging case-control study using arterial spin labelling.
Fibromyalgia is characterized by chronic pain and a striking discrepancy between objective signs of tissue damage and severity of pain. Function and structural alterations in brain areas inv...
Posthypnotic Amnesia in Hypnotizability Assessment: Validation of a New Scoring System for the Hypnotic Induction Profile.
The Hypnotic Induction Profile (HIP) is a standardized assessment of hypnotizability featuring a validated 0-10 scoring system, that does not factor in posthypnotic amnesia. Using confirmato...
Augmentation of EMDR with multifocal transcranial current stimulation (MtCS) in the treatment of fibromyalgia: study protocol of a double-blind randomized controlled exploratory and pragmatic trial.
Fibromyalgia (FM) is a generalized, widespread chronic pain disorder affecting 2.7% of the general population. In recent years, different studies have observed a strong association between F...
Diagnostic issues in difficult-to-treat rheumatoid arthritis: a systematic literature review informing the EULAR recommendations for the management of difficult-to-treat rheumatoid arthritis.
To summarise the evidence on diagnostic issues in difficult-to-treat rheumatoid arthritis (D2T RA) informing the EULAR recommendations for the management of D2T RA.A systematic literature re...
Relevance of Religiosity for Coping Strategies and Disability in Patients with Fibromyalgia Syndrome.
Coping strategies are essential for the outcome of chronic pain. This study evaluated religiosity in a cohort of patients with fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS), its effect on pain and other sympt...
The Prevalence of Fibromyalgia Among Medical Students at King Abdulaziz University: A Cross-Sectional Study.
Background and objective Fibromyalgia (FM) is a chronic, multifactorial pain condition. The latest literature suggests that genetic and environmental factors including continuous stress cont...
The Search for Biomarkers in Fibromyalgia.
Fibromyalgia is the most common of the central sensitivity syndromes affecting 2-5% of the adult population in the United States. This pain amplification syndrome has enormous societal impac...
Relationship between Anxiety, Post-Traumatic Stress, Insomnia and Fibromyalgia among Female Refugees in Jordan: a Cross-Sectional Study.
Fibromyalgia (FM) is a syndrome of chronic widespread pain. While it has been studied in different populations and settings, the impact of FM and its associated psychological factors has not...
Do women with vaginismus have a lower threshold of pain?
Vaginismus and dyspareunia are together categorized as a genito-pelvic pain and penetration disorder. We aimed to evaluate the threshold of pain and the pain sensitivity in women with vagini...
Assessment of widespread and extra-articular pain in psoriatic arthritis: a case-control study.
A remarkable lack of detailed knowledge on pain areas in Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA) is present, and their clinical relevance is quite unknown. The main aim of the study was to explore pain ar...
Metal-induced oxidative stress level in patients with fibromyalgia syndrome and its contribution to the severity of the disease: A correlational study.
Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) is an extra-articular rheumatological disease characterised by widespread chronic musculoskeletal pain. Metal-induced oxidative stress contributes to the severity...
Chronic generalized pain disrupts whole brain functional connectivity in mice.
Fibromyalgia (FM) is a generalized chronic pain condition whose pathophysiology is poorly understood, and both basic and translational research are needed to advance the field. Here we used ...
Prognostic factors of trochanteric bursitis in surgical-staged patients: a prospective study.
Trochanteric bursitis or greater trochanteric pain syndrome is a common disorder and frequent cause of lateral hip pain. It can lead to severe functional impairment with increase morbidity a...
Painful Sleep: Insomnia in Patients with Chronic Pain Syndrome and its Consequences.
Insomnia is a chronic condition that occurs a minimum of three times per week over a period of three or more subsequent months. There are multiple causes of insomnia, and even though it is c...
[Rheumatic pain and chronic pain in children, adolescents and young adults].
Rheumatic diseases, such as juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), are typically associated with acute pain mainly caused by inflammation. Chronic pain is described as pain lasting at least 3 ...
Suicidal Ideation Profiles in Patients with Fibromyalgia Using Transdiagnostic Psychological and Fibromyalgia-Associated Variables.
Several studies have emphasized the heterogeneity of fibromyalgia patients. Furthermore, fibromyalgia patients are considered a high-risk suicide group. The ideation-to-action framework prop...
Fibromyalgia Pain and Depression: An Update on the Role of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation.
Fibromyalgia is a musculoskeletal pain of different parts of the body, which is also associated with fatigue, lack of sleep, cognition deficits, family history, gender bias, and other disord...
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