Fibromyalgia News

Utilization of the health care system remained high for patients with fibromyalgia after initiating treatment with either amitriptyline, Cymbalta, Neurontin or Lyrica, according to researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Compared with healthy participants, patients with fibromyalgia showed reduced hippocampal volume in MRI scans, according to recently published research.

Low-frequency sound stimulation was shown to reduce pain and sleep symptoms in patients with fibromyalgia, according to researchers from the University of Toronto and the Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario.

The American College of Rheumatology 1990, 2010 and a modified version of the 2010 fibromyalgia diagnostic criteria yielded highly variable results in a group of Scottish patients, according to recently publish findings.

Patients with longstanding, established rheumatoid arthritis were more likely to have fibromyalgia and pressure-induced, widespread pain in addition to joint pain, according to recently published data from researchers in the U.K.

The American College of Rheumatology 2010 adult fibromyalgia criteria can be successfully applied by pediatricians when screening pediatric and adolescent patients for fibromyalgia, but confirmation from a rheumatologist is still recommended, according to researchers from the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.

Serum leptin, erythrocyte sedimentation rate and C-reactive protein levels were shown to be higher in a subgroup of patients with fibromyalgia, according to study finding presented recently.

Patients with fibromyalgia were more likely to show symptoms of anxiety than patients with other rheumatic diseases, according to findings by Robert S. Katz, MD, and Frank Leavitt, PhD.

Patients with both rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia were less likely to achieve remission or low disease activity scores, according to finding presented recently.

Patients with juvenile fibromyalgia showed alterations in walking patterns, greater knee weakness, lower bilateral hip abduction strength, reduced ankle dorsiflexion and other physical and psychosocial alterations compared with a group of healthy controls, according to researchers.