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About 5 million people in the United States suffer from a debilitating pain condition called fibromyalgia. Conventional medicine…

Fibromyalgia, formerly know as fibrositis, is a common and chronic condition affecting the muscles. This condition is present…

Fibromyalgia is often missed or misdiagnosed for a number of reasons. There aren’t definitive blood tests or X-ray…

Fibromyalgia is a common chronic syndrome that can cause widespread body pain, fatigue, and cognitive issues. A person…

In this paper, we discuss some of the myths concerning FM, with a special focus on those extolled by mental health specialists (psychiatry, psychosomatic medicine, and clinical psychology) and neurologists. We have based our facts on the interdisciplinary evidence-based clinical guidelines on FM of Canada, Germany, and the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR).

Fibromyalgia is characterized by chronic widespread pain, fatigue, sleep disturbances and functional symptoms. The etiopathogenesis, diagnostic criteria and…