The ancient martial art of tai chi has similar or greater benefits than aerobic exercise for people with the chronic pain condition fibromyalgia, finds a trial published by The BMJ today.
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A team of academics has conducted the first study into the effectiveness of compassion meditation for treating fibromyalgia, a debilitating pain condition, which recently hit the headlines for causing Lady Gaga to cancel ...
Feb 27, 2018
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A new device that combines low-intensity laser light and therapeutic ultrasound considerably reduces the pain experienced by patients with fibromyalgia. Fibromyalgia is a chronic disease that involves widespread nonarticular ...
Aug 30, 2018
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For 10 years, Gail De Sciose felt that pain controlled her activities, her schedule, her every move. She often found herself sprawled on the floor of her Birmingham home, sharp pains radiating down her neck, back, and hips. ...
Oct 22, 2015
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Scientists at King's College London, funded by the charity Arthritis Research UK, have found a link between changes in marks on the outside of DNA (epigenetics) and chronic widespread joint pain, one of the main symptoms ...
Nov 11, 2016
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Fibromyalgia is something of a mystery. It can't be detected with scans or blood tests, yet it causes lifelong pain for millions of people.
Sep 14, 2018
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New UK research could lead to a blood test to diagnose the common pain condition, fibromyalgia.
May 12, 2015
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Dr. Philip Lage-Hansen and colleagues used the EULAR Congress to share their new data on the prevalence of fulfillment of survey-based criteria for fibromyalgia among 248 newly referred patients in a rheumatic outpatient ...
Jun 3, 2022
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At least one in ten of us suffer some sort of troublesome, long-term (chronic) pain. But not all have fibromyalgia.
Jun 18, 2019
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Preliminary findings from a pilot study suggest that cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) may slow or even reverse the atrophy of cortical gray matter in patients who have co-morbid fibromyalgia.
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