Fibromyalgia Info.

I’ve been doing some reading and internet surfing and discovered a few things I didn’t know about Fibromyalgia, which are very interesting.  It would seem the current thinking is now that Fibro is caused by trauma to the Central Nervous System (CNS) which could be for example a knock on the head, a neck injury, a virus or severe stress.  Now that there are much more precise imaging techniques (qEEG, fMRI, PET scans etc) for looking at the brain they have found abnormalities there in people with Fibro. There is a technique called brain mapping where a qEEG(quantitative Electroencaphalogram) is used to map abnormal activity in the brain, this information is then used to apply the most appropriate treatments.

Here are some links to what I found if you’re interested-

http://www.ei-resource.org/articles/fibromyalgia-articles/fibromyalgia-pain-isnt-all-in-patients-heads-new-brain-study-finds/

http://www.jpain.org/article/S1526-5900%2808%2900650-0/abstract

http://www.fibromyalgia-symptoms.org/fibromyalgia_brain.html

http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0005224

www.fmpartnership.org/documents/Post-Traumatic_FM2.doc

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