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    Fibromyalgia is a chronic musculoskeletal pain disorder characterized by chronic widespread pain, fatigue, and stiffness. It is thought to involve alterations in neurotransmitters like serotonin and substance P, as well as disturbances in sleep, anxiety, and depression. Patients experience chronic fatigue and pain at specific tender points throughout the body.

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    Fibromyalgia is a chronic musculoskeletal pain disorder characterized by chronic widespread pain, fatigue, and stiffness. It is thought to involve alterations in neurotransmitters like serotonin and substance P, as well as disturbances in sleep, anxiety, and depression. Patients experience chronic fatigue and pain at specific tender points throughout the body.

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    Fibromyalgia is a chronic musculoskeletal pain disorder characterized by chronic widespread pain, fatigue, and stiffness. It is thought to involve alterations in neurotransmitters like serotonin and substance P, as well as disturbances in sleep, anxiety, and depression. Patients experience chronic fatigue and pain at specific tender points throughout the body.

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    Fibromyalgia - Increasingly recognized chronic musculoskeletal pain disorder of unknown cause.

    It is a chronic pain
    syndrome that involves chronic fatigue, generalized muscle aching and stiffness

    MODIFIABLE RISK FACTORS NON-MODIFIABLE RISK


     Infection FACTORS
     Pre-menstrual Syndrome  Young woman
     Psychosocial stress  Females
     Physical Trauma  Genetics
     Emotional Trauma  Hereditary

    ALTERATIONS IN
    NEUROTRANSMITTERS SLEEP
     INCREASED SEROTONIN DISTURBANCE
     INCREASED SUBSTANCE P
     DECREASED ENDORPHINS

    ANXIETY
    DESCENDING PATHWAYS OF
    AND
    THE SPINAL CORD
    DEPRESSION

    DORSAL HORN
    (WHERE THE SENSORY SYNAPSES FLOWS) MOST COMMON
    CLINICAL SYMPTOM:

    CHRONIC FATIGUE
    SYMPATHETIC OUTFLOW

     MUSCLE MICROTRAUMA
     DECONDITIONING
     SKIN HYPERACTIVITY

    FOUND IN PAIRS:

    Occiput, Trapezius, Gluteal,


    PRESENCE OF Supraspinatus, Greater Trochanter,
    Low Cervical, 2nd rib, lateral
    TRIGGER/TENDER POINTS epicondyle and knee

    IN THE BODY CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS:

     BURNING AND GNAWING PAIN


     NON-RESTORATIVE PAIN
     MORNING MUSCLE STIFNESS
    CUTANEOUS NOCICEPTION  INCREASED SENSITIVITY TO
    TOUCH
    MUSCLE NOCICEPTION  POST EXERTIONAL MUSCLE
    PAIN

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