Muscular fibromyalgia, how to recognize it and treat it

The muscle Fibromyalgia is a rheumatic syndrome that affects the muscular system tendon. His diagnosis is particularly complex because, at present, can not be confirmed by any blood or other investigation, but is based exclusively on the analysis of symptoms and signs , that is, the complaints of the patient and the signs seen by the doctor, and it is made even more difficult by the fact that the clinical picture is rather similar to that of other pathologies such as polymyositis, polymyalgia rheumatica, etc.

The rheumatologist makes the diagnosis using a standardized diagnostic protocol that includes examinations (magnetic resonance, scintigraphy, radiography, etc.) and anamnestic analysis with palpation of the 18 "tender points" ie "painful points" (these are the regions of the body where the tendons are grafted to the muscles); in the presence of fibromyalgia at least 11 will be painful.

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Since the causes of the disease are not known, there is no precise protocol for its treatment , but it varies according to the clinical manifestations of the disease on individual patients. Drug therapy is mainly aimed at controlling the pain syndrome, but also uses muscle relaxants to relax and stretch the stiffened muscle groups and antidepressant drugs which, by enhancing the activity of serotonin, act on one of the central mechanisms of this disease.

The rest and an appropriate program of physiotherapy activities and physical allow to obtain a gradual improvement in the physical conditions but should always be accompanied by a concurrent psychological therapy because of the possible effects and the inevitable impact that this disease has on quality of life of those it is affection.