Fibromyalgia no longer invisible
Back in May of 2007, I wrote a piece entitled “Is fibromyalgia a real illness?” in which I stated that “…there is no question that it is real.” I wrote that “Fibromyalgia is a common cause of chronic pain in the bones and muscles” even though no musculoskeletal abnormalities have ever been found in fibromyalgia patients. Now recent research has provided an explanation for this seeming discrepancy.
Researchers in France studied 20 women with fibromyalgia using a special kind of brain scan called SPECT and found significant differences in brain function when they were compared with 10 other women without fibromyalgia. Further, these differences were found to be directly correlated with the severity of the disease. An increase in blood flow was found in that region of the brain known to discriminate pain intensity, and a decrease was found within those areas thought to be involved […]
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