January 3, 2012

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Fibromyalgia Tender Points

Fibromyalgia tender points are sometimes mistakenly called “trigger points”, the terminology that is used to describe can cause a situation where pressure on certain trigger points, a sequence of symptoms is known. This is not the case with fibromyalgia tender points, which are a focus of chronic pain [...]

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January 3, 2012

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Symptoms of Fibromyalgia Men & Women

Symptoms of Fibromyalgia The universal symptoms of fibromyalgia is pain. As already mentioned, the pain of fibromyalgia is not caused by tissue inflammation. Instead, these patients seem to be an increased sensitivity to many different sensory stimuli and have an unusually low pain threshold. Minor sensory stimuli that would not normally lead to pain in [...]

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December 22, 2011

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What is Fibromyalgia Syndrome?

What is fibromyalgia?

Fibromyalgia Syndrome is a chronic disease that causes pain, stiffness and tenderness of the muscles, tendons and joints. Fibromyalgia is also restless sleep, awakening tired, chronicfatigue from anxiety, depression and disturbances in bowel function. Fibromyalgia is sometimes called FMS [...]

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