Fibromyalgia.

Fibromyalgia.

Fibromyalgia means pain in the connective tissue end muscles.
Fibeomyalgia is a syndrome with common pain and stifness from the locomotor apparatus, it is accompanied by other nonspecific complaints like tiredness, insomnia and and changes in the state of mind. .
For fibromyalgia there is not known a cause.

It is discused if fibromyalgia is an individual disease. There is no consensus about the existence of objective defects that belong to fibromyalgia.
There are indications that with fibromyalgia the processing of pain by the central nervous system is faulty and that there are disorders in the neuroendocrine, the neurovegatative and neuro-immunologic systems.

The lack of clarity about the cause of fibromyalgie is expressed in many different therapies: painkillers, antidepressives, cognitive behavioural therapie, kinesiotherapy, learning to handle stress, acupuncture , etc.
Fibromyalgie is found in 1-2% of the population.

In this program the diagnostic criteria of the American College of Reumatology are used (publishec in may 2010).
Common pain and tiredness can be cause by different diseases. The diagnosis from this program can only be true if there are no other known disease.

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