Fibromyalgia
Description
- Chronic central pain sensitisation syndrome - widespread musculoskeletal pain with fatigue, sleep disturbance, and cognitive symptoms ("fibro fog")
- A clinical diagnosis of a real physiological process, not a diagnosis of exclusion or "medically unexplained symptoms" - functional MRI and other research demonstrates objective alterations in central pain processing
- Frequently overlaps with other central sensitisation/functional syndromes (IBS, chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic pelvic pain, TMJ disorder)
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