Fibromyalgia awareness what you see what i feel Shirt
Posted at 11:15h in Fibromyalgia, The ANRF Chronicle by ANRF 0 Comments ShareThe history of a disease provides an interesting clinical, pathophysiologic, and therapeutic perspective. Here we look at the evolution of the descriptions, diagnostic factors and treatment of fibromyalgia.Fibromyalgia or fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) is a chronic medical condition characterized by widespread pain throughout the body as well as a heightened pain response to pressure. Other common symptoms include fatigue to a degree where it affects normal activities, insomnia and trouble with memory. It is frequently associated with psychological conditions such depression, anxiety or post-traumatic stress. No specific diagnostic test exists for fibromyalgia so diagnosis relies on excluding other possible causes for the symptoms as well as verifying that a set number of symptoms are present.
Fibromyalgia awareness what you see what i feel Shirt
Long SufferingEuropean literature contains descriptions of musculoskeletal pain dating back to the 16th century. By the 18th century physicians began to distinguish articular rheumatism with deforming features from nondeforming but still painful soft tissue musculoskeletal disorders. These disorders were at the time frequently referred to as muscular rheumatism. From the 19th century onwards there are multiple descriptions, under different names, of muscular rheumatic disorders. Often these descriptions are not specific making it near to impossible to distinguish between general or localized types of the disorders. Significant in the history of fibromyalgia were the observations in 1841 by Valleix, a French paediatrician, in which he put forward the idea of trigger points causing referred pain. He suggested that muscular rheumatism was in fact a form of neuralgia. Other suggestions at the time included functional changes to the muscles themselves (Inman 1858) causing muscular spasms or according to Cornelius (1903) the pain was a result of hyperactivity of nerve endings.