Fibromyalgia joint pain stems from changes in how your brain processes pain signals. It’s often accompanied by fatigue and muscle tenderness. Have you ever felt tired and achy with the flu? This is ...

Many people with fibromyalgia describe the chronic condition as a "bad case of the flu that never goes away," because they have widespread pain, wake up with stiff muscles and experience brain fog, ...

Fibromyalgia causes severe pain throughout the body. But scientists do not know the precise mechanisms that create this suffering. The pain usually develops gradually but can also seem to come out of ...

“Sleep is important to restore the body, but also to clear waste in the brain,” says Brian Koo, MD, a neurologist and assistant professor of neurology at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, ...

Both exposure-based cognitive behavioral therapy (Exp- CBT) and traditional CBT may reduce symptoms of fibromyalgia. The corresponding study was published in Pain. Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain ...

Living with fibromyalgia means navigating a complex web of widespread pain, profound fatigue, and cognitive challenges that fluctuate in intensity from day to day. For the estimated 4% of the ...

People with fibromyalgia feel pain not because the area that is hurting is damaged or has an injury, but because a problem exists with the way the brain and nervous system process pain from that area.

Fibromyalgia is one of the chronic pain conditions that fall under the “biopsychosocial model”, 1,2 meaning that many variables affect the disease, both internal and external. Some of the external ...