Chronic fatigue and Fibromyalgia have special common traits and a literature search showed the following findings:Generally considered a “precursor” of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia is overwork since such patients have been described in these terms:...
Complex regional pain syndromes (CRPS, reflex sympathetic dystrophy, causalgia) are painful neuropathic disorders that develop after trauma affecting a limb with (I) or without (II) nerve injury. Clinical features are pain, impairment of motor function, swelling and...
In a study on patients with chronic low back pain to determine whether anger-in, anger-out, and hostility predicted symptom-specific muscle tension reactivity found that if anger was kept in with hostility during an anger recall interview, there was increased...
One of the readers has asked about the difference between TENS and eToims®. TENS stands for transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation and is an effective treatment modality for chronic musculoskeletal pain. Although the indications for use to control neuromuscular...
In a study on cervical spine specimens (59-92 years) including C2-C7 levels, it was found that the prevalence of cervical facet joint degeneration was very high in individuals aged 50 years and more, with a tendency to increase in severity with age. All levels of the...
A published study showed that advice and training on working techniques and lifting equipment does not prevent back pain in jobs that involve heavy lifting. The study included analysis of randomised trials (17,720 participants) with follow-up time from six months to...
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