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Abstracts tagged "fibromyalgia and pain"

  • Abstract Number: 235 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting

    Muscle Pressure Correlates with Pain Levels in Fibromyalgia Patients and Muscle Tension May Be the Cause of Their Pain

    Alexandra Katz Small1, Ben Small 2, Josephine Anilao 2, Jessica Polyak Wokurka 3 and Robert Katz 4, 1Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, 2Rheumatology Associates, Chicago, IL, 3Rheumatology Associates, Chicago, 4Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL

    Background/Purpose: Previous research has found that muscle pressure as measured by a pressure gauge is three times higher in the trapezius muscle in fibromyalgia patients…
  • Abstract Number: 236 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting

    Repeat Muscle Pressures Measured in Fibromyalgia Patients and Compared with Pain Scores

    Alexandra Katz Small1, Ben Small 2 and Robert Katz 3, 1Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, 2Rheumatology Associates, Chicago, IL, 3Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL

    Background/Purpose: Patients meeting the ACR criteria for the diagnosis of fibromyalgia were evaluated for intramuscular pressure using a pressure gauge from a trained physician or…
  • Abstract Number: 1870 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Validation of an Electronic Version of the Michigan Body Map

    Chad M. Brummett1, David Kohns2, Rishi Bakshi3, Jenna Goesling4, Stephanie Moser1, Jennifer Pierce4, David Williams5, Daniel J. Clauw5, Afton L. Hassett1 and Erin Spencer2, 1Anesthesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 3Physical Medicine Rehabilitaion, Univeristy of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 4Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 5Chronic Pain & Fatigue Research Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

    Background/Purpose: We previously validated the Michigan Body Map (MBM) to accurately assess widespread body pain and as a means of administering the Widespread Pain Index…
  • Abstract Number: 1871 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Identifying Pain Sites Highly Associated with the Fibromyalgia (FM) Phenotype

    Louis Lu1, Stephanie Moser2, Chad M. Brummett2 and Daniel J. Clauw3, 1Anesthesiology & Perioperative Care, UC Irvine, Orange, CA, 2Anesthesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 3Chronic Pain & Fatigue Research Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

    Background/Purpose: Fibromyalgia is challenging to diagnose given its overlapping symptoms with other chronic pain conditions. The most characteristic feature of FM is widespread pain, operationalized…
  • Abstract Number: 1977 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Elevated Levels of Eotaxin-2 in Serum of Fibromyalgia Patients

    Victoria Furer1, Eyal Hazan2, Adi Mor3, Michal Segal3, Avi Katav3, Valerie Aloush4, Ori Elkayam4, Jacob George3,5 and Jacob N. Ablin6,7, 1Rheumatology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center and the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel, 2Internal Medicine D, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel, 3ChemomAb Ltd. Israel, Tel Aviv, Israel, 4Rheumatology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center and the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, 5Heart Institute, Kaplan Medical Center, Rehovot, Israel, 6Internal Medicine H, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel, 7Rheumatology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Background/Purpose: Fibromyalgia is a widespread chronic pain syndrome (FMS) the pathogenesis of which remains incompletely understood. FMS patients demonstrate an altered profile of chemokines relative…
  • Abstract Number: 2205 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Cognitive Functioning in Fibromyalgia: The Central Role of Effort

    Jacob Ablin1, Tamar Bar On –Kalfon2, Gilad Gal3 and Ran Shorer2, 1Rheumatology, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel, 2Rheumatology, Tel Aviv Sourasky medical center, Tel Aviv, Israel, 3School of Behavioral Sciences, Tel Aviv-Jaffa Academic College, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Background/Purpose: Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) patients demonstrate deficits in tests of attention, executive functioning and verbal memory. We assessed the role of effort in the cognitive…
  • Abstract Number: 2736 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Do Validated Tools of Disease Activity in Ankylosing Spondylitis Measure Fibromyalgia Pain?

    Marina N. Magrey1, Sherilyn Diomampo2 and Muhammad Asim Khan3, 1Case Western Reserve University at MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, 2MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, 3Medicine/ Rheumatology, Case Western Reserve Univ, Cleveland, OH

    Background/Purpose: Concomitant fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) is a common problem in ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and its recognition is important for optimal management. BASDAI, a disease activity…
  • Abstract Number: 71 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Fibromyalgia Dysautonomia and Distress. Correlation Between the Newly Developed Composite Autonomic Symptoms (COMPASS-31) Questionnaire and the Fibromyalgia  Polysymptomatic Distress Scale

    Laura-Aline Martinez-Martinez1, Maya Chacón Pérez2, Paola Reyes-Loyola3 and Manuel Martínez-Lavín3, 1National Institute of Cardiology. Mexico, Mexico City, TX, Mexico, 2National Institute of Cardiology, Mexico City, Mexico, 3National Institute of Cardiology. Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico

    Background/Purpose: A consistent line of investigation suggests that dysautonomia may explain the multisystem fibromyalgia features, and that fibromyalgia is a sympathetically maintained neuropathic pain syndrome.…
  • Abstract Number: 75 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Fibromyalgia and Positional Cervical Cord Compression Differ Only By Autonomic Nervous System Consequences: A Double-Blinded, Prospective Study

    Andrew Holman, Pacific Rheumatology Reseach, Seattle, WA

    Background/Purpose: In 1998, C Muhle and D Resnick proposed a corollary to cervical spinal stenosis caused by intermittent abutment of the cervical spinal cord from…
  • Abstract Number: 915 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Defining Pain for Fibromyalgia Criteria: Multi-Site or Widespread?  an Analysis of Data from Four UK Population-Based Studies

    Gary J. Macfarlane1, Linda E. Dean1, Robert Bennett2, Leslie J. Crofford3, Abimbola Ayorinde1, Elisa Fluess1, Daniel J. Clauw4, Mary-Ann Fitzcharles5, Don Goldenberg6, Eduardo Paiva7, Roland Staud8 and Lesley Arnold9, 1Musculoskeletal Research Collaboration (Epidemiology Group), University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, 2SN-Office of Research & Development, Oregon Health & Science Univ, Portland, OR, 3Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 4Anesthesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 5MGH, Montreal, QC, Canada, 6Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Newton, MA, 7Sociedade Brasileira de Reumatologia, São Paulo, Brazil, 8University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 9University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH

    Background/Purpose: The 1990 criteria for fibromyalgia (FM) remain the only set approved by the American College of Rheumatology (ACR). They require that pain be both…
  • Abstract Number: 1019 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Brain Functional Connectivity Differentially Predicts Response to Two Centrally Acting Analgesics in Fibromyalgia

    Eric Ichesco1, Johnson Hampson2, Lynne Pauer3, Andrew Clair4, Tobias Schmidt-Wilcke5, David A. Williams6, Daniel J. Clauw2 and Richard E. Harris1, 1Anesthesiology, U. Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2Anesthesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 3Pfizer Inc, New London, CT, 4Pfizer Inc., New York, NY, 5Bergmannsheil, Bochum, Germany, 6Anesthseiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

    Background/Purpose: Recently, several functional brain imaging techniques including functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) have been proposed to be useful in probing the mechanisms of action…
  • Abstract Number: 2290 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    The 2011 Fibromyalgia (FM) Survey Criteria Are a Surrogate Measure of Pain Centralization

    Steven E. Harte1, Daniel J. Clauw2, Andrew D. Clauw1, J. Ryan Scott1, Stephanie Moser1 and Chad Brummett2, 1Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2Anesthesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

    Background/Purpose: The 2011 FM Survey Criteria can either be used as a dichotomous measure to diagnose an individual with FM, or in a continuous manner…
  • Abstract Number: 895 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    The Fibromyalgia Syndrome and Widespread Pain Frequency in Active Duty U.S. Service Members with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

    Bernard Hildebrand1, Jay B. Higgs1, Douglas Williamson2, Edna Foa3, Patricia Resick4, Jim Mintz2, Antoinette Brundige2, Kevin Kelly5, Adam Borah5, Stacey Young-McCaughan2, Brett Litz6, Elizabeth Hembree3 and Alan Peterson2, 1Rheumatology, San Antonio Military Medical Center, JBSA - Fort Sam Houston, TX, 2The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, 3University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 4Duke University, Durham, NC, 5Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center, Fort Hood, TX, 6VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA

    Background/Purpose:  Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and pain are common amongst US military service members who have deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan.  Studies suggest the co-morbidity…
  • Abstract Number: 892 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Symptom Increase in Fibromyalgia Is Not Consistent with the Central Sensitization or Central Hyperresponsiveness Hypothesis

    Frederick Wolfe1, Brian T. Walitt2, Johannes Rasker3, Robert S. Katz4 and Winfried Häuser5, 1National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases, Wichita, KS, 2Rheumatology, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC, 3Dpt. Psychology, Health and Technology, University Twente, Enschede, Netherlands, 4Rush Medical College, Chicago, IL, 5Klinikum Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Background/Purpose: The current dominant hypothesis explains fibromyalgia (FM) as a centralized pain state in which the CNS originates or amplifies pain, which is then accompanied…
  • Abstract Number: 2080 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Carryover Effects in Crossover Design Studies in Fibromyalgia and Other Pain Conditions

    Lynne Pauer1, Birol Emir2, Ed Whalen3, Joseph Scavone4 and Andrew Clair2, 1445 Eastern Point Road, Pfizer Inc, Groton, CT, 2Pfizer Inc, New York, NY, 3Pfizer Inc., New York, NY, 4Pfizer Inc, Groton, CT

    Background/Purpose: Explore carryover effects and their influence on crossover and randomized withdrawal design (RWD) studies.Methods: We examine pregabalin crossover and RWD studies in fibromyalgia (FM),…
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