Nociplastic pain is the semantic term suggested by the international community of pain
researchers to describe a third category of pain that is mechanistically distinct from …

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the lives and health of persons worldwide, with
potential for further effects in the future. The experience of living within this pandemic has …

Fibromyalgia is a common illness characterized by chronic widespread pain, sleep
problems (including unrefreshing sleep), physical exhaustion and cognitive difficulties. The …

Objective To develop simple, practical criteria for clinical diagnosis of fibromyalgia that are
suitable for use in primary and specialty care and that do not require a tender point …

Objectives The provisional criteria of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) 2010
and the 2011 self-report modification for survey and clinical research are widely used for …

Objective. To develop a fibromyalgia (FM) survey questionnaire for epidemiologic and
clinical studies using a modification of the 2010 American College of Rheumatology …

BACKGROUND: Recent neurophysiological evidence attests to the validity of fibromyalgia
(FM), a chronic pain condition that affects> 2% of the population. OBJECTIVES: To present …

Fibromyalgia (FM) is a common chronic pain disorder that presents diagnostic challenges
for clinicians. Several classification, diagnostic and screening criteria have been developed …

BACKGROUND: Sleep disorders affect many patients with chronic pain conditions.
Cannabis has been reported by several patient populations to help sleep. We evaluated the …

Objective. To determine the prevalence of sexual and physical abuse in female patients with
fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS), as compared with rheumatic disease control patients …