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Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue
Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is the common name for a group of complex and significantly debilitating medical conditions, including flu-like symptoms, aches, inability to concentrate, persistent fatigue and other specific symptoms.
Overview
Characteristics of fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) include widespread chronic muscle and joint pain, tenderness in localized areas and fatigue, as well as other symptoms.
Fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome are considered separate, but related disorders. They share a common symptom: severe fatigue and chronic pain that greatly interferes with lives.
The difference is that, in fibromyalgia, fatigue often takes a backseat to debilitating muscle pain. In chronic fatigue syndrome, people have an overwhelming lack of energy, but also can experience some pain.
Causes & Symptoms
Chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia are complex physical processes with physical causes. The unrelenting symptoms of fatigue, pain and mental fogginess can be overwhelming and frightening. We treat the cause of fibromyalgia (FMS) and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and not just the symptoms.
MJA healthcare team focuses on the key underlying issues and provides you with an integrated, personalized plan of care aimed at restoring your vitality, productivity and quality of life.
Research
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Those who suffer from fibromyalgia can have mild to tense pain throughout their body – it’s a debilitating disorder which can affect muscles, joints and/or the skin. The pain is not necessarily centralized to one body part or area, and can affect different places at different times or all at once.
Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD), also known as Chronic Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) can come about in many ways. Usually, it occurs after an identifiable incident like surgery, stroke, or injury (a torn ligament, fracture, etc.). Excessive pain continues afterwards and can be triggered with or without a stimulus. We can’t pinpoint precisely why RSD/CRPS occurs, but it appears to be a result of a malfunctioning sympathetic nervous system (which is a part of the nervous system that control injury sites).
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