May 12 is National Fibromyalgia Awareness Day. Fibromyalgia is a disorder caused by the brain perceiving normal sensations as pain due to the enhancement of peripheral sensory signals. The disorder ...

Just the other day, my mother in law to-be reminded me of how Thursday, May 12 is Fibromyalgia Awareness Day (which is why I'm wearing purple on air). To go along with that, I figured it would be ...

The fibromyalgia awareness badge that Michiko Asano produced, which says, "Do you know about fibromyalgia? It's a disease that causes chronic, unbearable pain. It can trigger acute pain by just a ...

Fibromyalgia is the largest elephant in the room for rheumatologists, and also for the patients. Its prevalence has been severely underestimated as the 1990 ACR criteria lack sensitivity, and the 2010 ...

—New research on the ways in which fibromyalgia affects women’s experiences of their own bodies could lead to a better understanding of the relationship between pain, sensitivity to one’s internal ...

Fibromyalgia is a condition that causes sufferers extreme pain all over the body, as well as sleep issues, fatigue and, in many cases, can lead to mental and emotional distress. The Centers For ...

Chronic pain and fatigue are hard enough – but for many people living with ‘invisible’ illness there’s also the distress of people not recognising, or even believing, that your experiences are real.

A recent study has found that a self-awareness intervention significantly reduced levels of fibromyalgia-related pain. The study by Hsu et al. (2010) studied 45 women who had been diagnosed with ...