Fibromyalgia is so difficult to diagnose that it can take years before patients understand what’s making their bodies ache. When Lynn Matallana began noticing unexplained pain and fatigue in 1993 -- ...

Charlotte Neal, 28, from London, thought her life was over when she was diagnosed with chronic pain and fatigue condition fibromyalgia in 2019. But with the right medication and regular exercise, ...

Q. I would be interested in knowing if you have any fitness advice for me. I am 65, work full-time, am overweight (making slow but steady progress in this area) and challenged with fibromyalgia ...

Charlotte Neal has the chronic pain disorder fibromyalgia, which causes pain all over her body. She decided to move for at least 30 minutes a day to help manage her condition. Despite flare-ups, she ...

In this class, the instructor wants everyone to relax. She encourages students to let their minds float and their muscles melt. No tests or tension here. Instructor Karin Zahnow knows all too well the ...

If you're living with fibromyalgia, you might think that relief only comes from the bottle - your medicine bottle, that is. But studies have found that a combination of medical and non-medical ...

Two separate studies published in the journal Arthritis & Rheumatism (Arthritis Care & Research) have shown that patients with fibromyalgia could benefit from exercise in water. Regular physical ...

Patient education in combination with a variety of pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic therapies are necessary to adequately manage fibromyalgia, noted a speaker at the 2021 Rheumatology Nurses ...

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 ...

Prescribed graded aerobic exercise is a simple, cheap, and effective treatment for people with fibromyalgia (medically unexplained chronic muscular pain and joint tenderness), finds a study in this ...

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, ...