Brain Scans Suggest That The Pain of Fibromyalgia is Real...!!!

The brain of people with fibromyalgia presents generalized inflammation, according to the images obtained by positron emission tomography in a study that would confirm that the pain of these patients is not imaginary.

The Fibromyalgia is a disease characterized by pain skeletal muscle which extends throughout the body, and for which there is still no diagnostic tests, so for determining that a person suffers the doctor is based on physical examination, in symptoms referred by the patient (generalized pain, fatigue, sleepiness, rigidity, memory problems …), and in a series of criteria established by the American College of Rheumatology.

The finding of some physiological alteration associated with this pathology is very important, both to achieve an early diagnosis that avoids tests that currently need to be done to rule out other health problems with similar symptoms, as well as to improve treatments aimed at relieving pain and pain. fatigue experienced by affected people. This line is framed by a new study with brain scans headed by Marco Loggia, associate director of the Center for Integrative Pain Neuroimaging at the Harvard Medical School, which has discovered that the brain of patients with fibromyalgia has an inflammation widespread, which is not observed in the case of healthy people.

The images revealed inflammation in the brain of fibromyalgia

The research, which was published in Brain, Behavior and Immunity , involved 31 patients with fibromyalgia, and 27 individuals who did not suffer from the disorder – from Boston ( USA ) and Stockholm (Sweden) – and who acted as control group. All of them underwent a test called positron emission tomography (PET) , and when comparing the images obtained from their brains it was observed that people with fibromyalgia had higher levels of inflammation in the cerebral immune cells -the glia-, a change neurochemical that was not seen in the images from the control group.

In addition, as explained by Dr. Harry Gewanter, specialist of the American College of Rheumatology, the conclusions of the study provide guidelines to guide future research to help develop new therapeutic alternatives to address fibromyalgia , or even to discover the causes of this disease .

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