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Fibromyalgia

After only a little bit of research, I found that Fibromyalgia is a relatively common diagnois.  Painful, that it is, there are many varying degrees of pain that lead to Fibromyalgia.  There are a wide-range of symptoms that can be annoying or just down right disabling.

The ACR, American College of Rheumatology, gave two main criteria to describe fibromyalgia.  The first was pain involving all four parts of the body.  These four parts included the right side, left side, above the waist and below the waist and the pain had to have lasted for a at least three months.  (American College of Rheumatology, 1990: http://arthritis.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=arthritis&zu=http%3A%2F%2Frheumatology.org%2F)

The second criteria the ACR gave for fibromyalgia is, a physical exam would reveal the presence of pain in at least eleven of the eighteen tender points when pressed with a specific amount of force (equivalent of 4 kg. or 9 lbs.).  Those points which may be tender include:

Tender points of fibromyalgia exist at these nine bilateral muscle locations (This information was ained from about.com at the following website http://arthritis.about.com/od/fibromyalgia/g/tenderpoints.htm: )

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