Every once in a blue moon you come across a study that kind of stops you in its tracks. This is that one for me. (Thanks to Tim Vaughn for pointing it out.) If the findings hold up it could transform our understanding and approach to fibromyalgia (FM). Plus, it has...
(My apologies for those who got two email blasts. I’m not sure how that happened.) In this hour plus Q&A with Sheffield ME and Fibromyalgia Group I got to blab about hot topics in fibromyalgia research, hope for future treatments, how chronic fatigue...
The muscles, the mitochondria and fibromyalgia – what a potentially potent mix. Over the past six months, at least three fibromyalgia muscle studies have popped up. (Health Rising has reviewed all three). Plus, a study examining energy production problems in...
“Our present study advances a new view of FMS pain that places the pain generator and the site of pain in the same peripheral location—the painful tender muscles. Specifically, this study challenges the prevailing theory of pain in FMS.” Katz et. Al....
The Netherlands and the U.K. have been the epicenter of biopsychosocial research (CBT/GET) into chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) for the past 20 years or so, but that is changing. In 2018, the Dutch Health Council asserted that “Scientific research on ME/CFS is...
Right on the heels of a study showing that people with fibromyalgia have trouble focusing or paying attention comes another study linking cognitive problems to a balky stress response. Say What? Attention Deficits Highlight Why Fibromyalgia (and ME/CFS) Are Such...
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