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Monday, 17 October 2011 10:20

The Pain is in the Brain of Fibromyalgia Syndrome: Part 3

  In the first two parts of “The Pain the Brain” series the concept of descending inhibition has been mentioned. This refers to a very elegant part of the central nervous system that originates in the brain and travels down the spinal cord to actual inhibit pain signals that have yet to be transmitted up into the brain—hence its name of “descending inhibition.” It has colloquially been referred to as “pain inhibits pain,” and its complete medical name is diffuse noxious inhibitory control (DNIC). 
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Monday, 17 October 2011 10:15

The Pain is in the Brain of Fibromyalgia Syndrome: Part 2

  Part 1 of this series described the pain process in the central nervous system, primarily the phenomenon called windup and how it is created. Windup is the beginning of an important change in the central nervous system called central sensitization which is at the heart of the pain felt by patients with FMS. It was mentioned in Part 1 of this series that there is some bad news for FMS patients regarding windup. Here it is.
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Monday, 17 October 2011 10:07

The Pain is in the Brain of Fibromyalgia Syndrome: Part 1

  The International Association for the Study of Pain has defined pain as both an "unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage." There has been an extensive medical literature published on the multitude of mechanisms responsible for the primary complaint of FMS patients — pain. 
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Tuesday, 19 April 2011 09:37

The Pain of Fibromyalgia: Part 1

There will be several short reports on this web site about pain in fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS): how the nervous system handles pain; how people with FMS have nervous systems that have changed because of the pain, and; especially how pain physicians can treat the pain of FMS. We’ll start off with a general discussion of the characteristics of FMS pain.
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