Diane
28-10-2004, 09:16 PM
This link is to a site that very comprehensively discusses fibromyalgia and chronic myofasical pain syndromes, and what the difference is.
http://www.sover.net/~devstar
It is actually quite excellent, especially the sections that patients can download to take to their various practitioners to educate them. The one to the neurologist is like dejavu.. it talks about central sensitization, the sensitized nervous system, entrapment of peripheral nerves etc. ... another page talks about the biochemical effects on nocioceptors, how that becomes part of a pain cascade into an ill nervous system, PPP as it were... so the info seems quite in line with what we are already on about.
It starts out talking about taut bands in muscles, but it certainly doesn't end there, so no need to fault it for any emphasis on muscles... there isn't such a focus really; it uses this common terminology for the benefit of the patients/practitioners familiar with those terms, but goes much farther in debunking the terms, simply by clarifying research on pain, that any other site I've seen.
One of my favorite parts now is the page that discusses all the common (mis)diagnoses, and which "muscles" to check for "trigger points"... I read the subtext cluing me in to which nerves upstream or downstream to go unload under which bit of anatomy, also upstream or downstream...
Apparently the references for each section are updated regularly, so it is a good site to visit over and over, for patients or practitioners who deal with PPP. I think, above all, it can provide patients who have persistant pain a very good tool with which to arm themselves when they go to their caregivers, to convince them their pain is for real. I love the idea of patients being given the means with which to educate themselves and their practitoners.
:),
Diane
http://www.sover.net/~devstar
It is actually quite excellent, especially the sections that patients can download to take to their various practitioners to educate them. The one to the neurologist is like dejavu.. it talks about central sensitization, the sensitized nervous system, entrapment of peripheral nerves etc. ... another page talks about the biochemical effects on nocioceptors, how that becomes part of a pain cascade into an ill nervous system, PPP as it were... so the info seems quite in line with what we are already on about.
It starts out talking about taut bands in muscles, but it certainly doesn't end there, so no need to fault it for any emphasis on muscles... there isn't such a focus really; it uses this common terminology for the benefit of the patients/practitioners familiar with those terms, but goes much farther in debunking the terms, simply by clarifying research on pain, that any other site I've seen.
One of my favorite parts now is the page that discusses all the common (mis)diagnoses, and which "muscles" to check for "trigger points"... I read the subtext cluing me in to which nerves upstream or downstream to go unload under which bit of anatomy, also upstream or downstream...
Apparently the references for each section are updated regularly, so it is a good site to visit over and over, for patients or practitioners who deal with PPP. I think, above all, it can provide patients who have persistant pain a very good tool with which to arm themselves when they go to their caregivers, to convince them their pain is for real. I love the idea of patients being given the means with which to educate themselves and their practitoners.
:),
Diane