Journal article

Publication year: 2002

Pages: 77-83

Journal: Aktuelle Rheumatologie

Volume number: 27

Issue number: 2

ISSN: 0341-051X

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1055/s-2002-25726

Publisher: Georg Thieme Verlag

Abstract: 
Fibromyalgia (FM) is characterised by large-area, preferably muscular chronic pain that cannot be attributed to any other rheumatological disease. Besides pain in the locomotor system the FM patients also suffer from more or less pronounced autonomous disorders of other organ systems and display individually varying autonomously different psychic symptoms reflected by appropriate tests as enhanced anxiousness and depressivity. The diagnosis is always, first of all, a diagnosis of exclusion. This is all the more true because FM symptomatology can also become manifest secondary to other rheumatological diseases such as the different varieties of rheumatoid arthritis and collagenoses. Today FM is one of the most frequently occurring diagnoses confronting the rheumatologist. This is particularly annoying because FM is so farone of the most poorly defined and researched of all the rheumatological diseases and is moreover so refractory that treatment must be classified as unsatisfactory. However, its frequency of occurrence has intensified research worldwide in recent years to open the door to an effective treatment.

Harvard Citation style: Neeck, G. (2002) Fibromyalgia, Aktuelle Rheumatologie, 27(2), pp. 77-83. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-2002-25726

APA Citation style: Neeck, G. (2002). Fibromyalgia. Aktuelle Rheumatologie. 27(2), 77-83. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-2002-25726