
Understanding Fibromyalgia Pain
Understanding Fibromyalgia
continued from previous post–Fibromyalgia: From Disbelief to Documented
Over the past 18 years, doctors have recognized fibromyalgia as a centrally sensitized pain condition. (This was written in 2013, updated 2015. Research has improved since then in terms of understanding fibromyalgia.) Central sensitization means there may be changes in your brain that affects your experience of pain. Or, a part of your brain that normally regulates pain perception doesn’t work well.… Read the rest