Milnacipran for the Treatment of Fibromyalgia by Harshit Gupta, Brook Girma, Jack S. Jenkins, Sarah E. Kaufman, Christopher A. Lee, Alan D. Kaye

“…# Purpose of review This is a comprehensive review of the literature regarding the use of milnacipran in treating fibromyalgia. A chronic pain disorder with other system disturbances, fibromyalgia is often resistant to many therapeutic approaches. …”
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Classification and Diagnosis of Fibromyalgia by Harold Merskey

“…Fibromyalgia was recently classified when a sleep disorder was described with diffuse musculoskeletal pain. …”
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Cursing the Darkness: Reactions to Fibromyalgia by Manfred Harth

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Patients’ and Professionals’ Views on Managing Fibromyalgia by Erica Briones-Vozmediano, Carmen Vives-Cases, Elena Ronda-Pérez, Diana Gil-González

“…BACKGROUND: Managing fibromyalgia is a challenge for both health care systems and the professionals caring for these patients, due, in part, to the fact that the etiology of this disease is unknown, its symptoms are not specific and there is no standardized treatment.…”
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Small fiber pathology in fibromyalgia syndrome by Claudia Sommer, Nurcan Üçeyler

“…About 50% of women with fibromyalgia syndrome have reduced skin innervation. …”
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Adjudication of Fibromyalgia Syndrome: Challenges in the Medicolegal Arena by Mary-Ann Fitzcharles, Peter A Ste-Marie, Angela Mailis, Yoram Shir

“…The medicolegal challenges surrounding fibromyalgia (FM) arise from the subjectivity of symptoms, causal attribution and reported symptoms sufficiently severe to cause disablement. …”
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Unique Cytokine Signature in the Plasma of Patients with Fibromyalgia by Jamie Sturgill, Elizabeth McGee, Victoria Menzies

“…Fibromyalgia (FMS) is a chronic pain syndrome with a complex but poorly understood pathogenesis affecting approximately 10 million adults in the United States. …”
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Understanding the Psychosocial Profile of Women with Fibromyalgia Syndrome by Jill Shuster, Jana McCormack, Rebecca Pillai Riddell, Maggie E Toplak

“…Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) is a disease with a complex etiology characterized by symptoms of widespread pain and fatigue. …”
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Psychological Research in Fibromyalgia: The Search for Explanatory Phenomena by Michael D Boissevan

“…This article reviews four areas of psychological research in fibromyalgia. First, the literature on depression in fibromyalgia shows that although the preponderance of studies demonstrate that fibromyalgia patients are more depressed than comparable medical patients, rigorous disconfirming evidence exists. …”
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Comparative role of affective–Cognitive behavior therapy and jacobson's progressive muscular relaxation in managing pain among patients with fibromyalgia by M T Lakshmi Saranya, R Sreehari, C B Mithun, P I Sangeetha

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Comparison of Efficacy of Duloxetine Versus Amitriptyline in Fibromyalgia Patients by Saira Tahir, Obaid ur Rehman, Aliena Badshah, Durkho Atif, Muhammad Muddasser Khan Panezai, Alam Zeb

Subjects: “…Amitriptyline, Duloxetine, Fibromyalgia…”
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Decoding the connection: unraveling the role of gut microbiome in fibromyalgia by Amir Minerbi, Arkady Khoutorsky, Yoram Shir

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Fibromyalgia: Presentation and Management with a Focus on Pharmacological Treatment by Janice E Sumpton, Dwight E Moulin

“…Fibromyalgia is a condition with widespread muscle pain. …”
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Fibromyalgia: do I tackle you with pharmacological treatments? by Serge Perrot

“…Pharmacological approaches are frequently proposed in fibromyalgia, based on different rationale. Some treatments are proposed to alleviate symptoms, mainly pain, fatigue, and sleep disorder. …”
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Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for fibromyalgia: are we there yet? by Jorge Dornellys da Silva Lapa, Valquíria Aparecida da Silva, Daniel Ciampi de Andrade

“…Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) has increasingly been used to modify cortical maladaptive plastic changes shown to occur in fibromyalgia (FM) and to correlate with symptoms. Evidence for its efficacy is currently inconclusive, mainly due to heterogeneity of stimulation parameters used in trials available to date. …”
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Epigenetic Alterations and an Increased Frequency of Micronuclei in Women with Fibromyalgia by Victoria Menzies, Debra E. Lyon, Kellie J. Archer, Qing Zhou, Jenni Brumelle, Kimberly H. Jones, G. Gao, Timothy P. York, Colleen Jackson-Cook

“…Fibromyalgia (FM), characterized by chronic widespread pain, fatigue, and cognitive/mood disturbances, leads to reduced workplace productivity and increased healthcare expenses. …”
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Piriformis Syndrome in Fibromyalgia: Clinical Diagnosis and Successful Treatment by Md Abu Bakar Siddiq, Moshiur Rahman Khasru, Johannes J. Rasker

“…In this paper, we describe piriformis and fibromyalgia syndrome in a 30-year-old young lady, an often missed diagnosis. …”
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Effect of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in male patients of fibromyalgia by Vikas Kumar Tiwari, Srishti Nanda, Suvercha Arya, Uma Kumar, Renu Bhatia

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Psychological factors and health-related quality of life in fibromyalgia patients by Ricardo P. Campos, Isabel Vázquez, Estela Vilhena

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Fibromyalgia and Disability Adjudication: No Simple Solutions to a Complex Problem by Manfred Harth, Warren R Nielson

“…BACKGROUND: Adjudication of disability claims related to fibromyalgia (FM) syndrome can be a challenging and complex process. …”
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