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Providing effective maternity care for women affected by fibromyalgia [PDF]
, 2011 Fibromyalgia is a condition for which information is not readily accessible in midwifery or obstetric text books. This ‘invisible disability’ can have detrimental implications for all aspects of maternity care.
King, Denyse
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Disability and quality of life in patients with fibromyalgia
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2008 Background Patients with fibromyalgia often feel disabled in the performance of daily activities. Psychological factors seem to play a pronounced disabling role in fibromyalgia.
Verbunt Jeanine A +2 more
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Pain Perception after Isometric Exercise in Women with Fibromyalgia [PDF]
, 2011 Objective: The purpose of this study was to identify exercise protocols incorporating isometric contractions that provide pain relief in women with fibromyalgia. Design: A before-after trial. Setting: A physical therapy department in an academic setting.
Bement, Marie K. Hoeger +5 more
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Tobacco Use in Fibromyalgia Is Associated With Cognitive Dysfunction
Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Innovations, Quality & Outcomes, 2019 Objective: To evaluate the association between smoking and cognitive function in patients with fibromyalgia. Patients and Methods: We surveyed 668 patients with fibromyalgia from May 1, 2012 through November 30, 2013 at a major tertiary referral center ...
Lin Ge, MD +11 more
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Fibromyalgia: A Unifying Neuroendocrinologic Model for Understanding Its Pathophysiology [PDF]
, 2008 Fibromyalgia is believed to affect at least 2% of the population. Despite advances in the scientific understanding of the derangements of central and peripheral pain processing mechanisms in fibromyalgia, no current models of its pathophysiology account ...
Peter Dorsher
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Traumatic events, perceived stress, and health in women with fibromyalgia and healthy controls [PDF]
, 2010 This study examined the relationship between trauma, stress and health in 41 women with fibromyalgia (FM) and 44 women who were healthy controls (HC). The participants were assessed for traumatic events, perceived stress and mental and physical health ...
Smith, Bruce W., Tooley, Erin M.
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Comorbidities in aging patients with sickle cell disease. [PDF]
, 2018 Sickle cell disease (SCD) in general and sickle cell anemia in particular is a highly complex disorder both at the molecular and clinical levels. Although the molecular lesion is a single-point mutation, the sickle gene is pleiotropic in nature causing ...
Ballas, Samir K.
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Can mastalgia be another somatic symptom in fibromyalgia syndrome?
ClinicsOBJECTIVE: The purposes of this study were to determine the coexistence of mastalgia and fibromyalgia, to investigate the effects of this combination on pain patterns, and to discuss the status of breast pain in the diagnostic algorithm of fibromyalgia ...
Meral Sen +3 more
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Journal of Translational Medicine, 2018 Background Candidate-gene studies on fibromyalgia susceptibility often include a small number of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), which is a limitation. Moreover, there is a paucity of evidence in Europe.
Fernando Estévez-López +12 more
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A Cross-Sectional Study on Central Sensitization and Autonomic Changes in Fibromyalgia
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2020 Fibromyalgia is a multi-symptomatic disorder characterized by generalized pain. The pathophysiology of fibromyalgia is supposedly an interplay between central nervous system hyper-responsiveness, autonomic dysfunction, and peripheral pain.
Sandipan Hazra +8 more
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