FIBROMIALGIA

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FIBROMIALGIA

Fibromialgia

Inflammation of muscles, coatings of muscles and conjuntivo weave layers of sinews, muscles, bones and joints.

Parts of the body that affects

It mainly affects the muscular zones of the inferior back, neck, shoulders, thorax, arms, hips and thighs.

Age

It affects mainly to adults between the 30 and 60 years of age. Much more it frequents in women.

Prognosis

In certain people, spontaneous recovery.

Others, can have buds and improvements indefinitely.

The disease is annoying but nonfatal.

The symptoms can be accustomed to to control with treatment

Complications

Muscular atrophy, discapacidad.

Analgesic drug abuse.

Prevention

Avoid the risk factors whenever it is possible.

Diagnosis and treatment

DIAGNOSIS:

File and physical examination by a doctor.

Analysis of blood to calibrate the inflammation and tests to discard reumatoide arthritis or the polimialgia.

There are no specific tests for the fibromiositis.

TREATMENT:

Difficult, he is doctor.

General measures

The heat mitigates the pain:

Take hot showers and you leave the water falls with force on the painful zones.

Use solar lamps, electrical pads, hot baths of massage or only hot baths, and compresas.

Have to that it gives smooth massages him in the doloridas zones.

Medication For slight annoyances, can use drugs without prescription like the aspirin, paracetamol or the ibuprofeno.

Injections of cortisone in the neuralgic points.

Antiinflammatory drugs nonsteroids.

His doctor can prescribe to him antidepressing tricyclic, whom by a unknown mechanism, the symptoms in some patients improve.

Activity

Follow as active as it can, although it has pains.

A recent study attributes a beneficial influence to the aeróbico exercise.

Diet

It is not necessary to follow none in special.

Warn its medico if

They appear inexplicable new symptoms.

The drugs used in this treatment can produce indirect effect.

Causes

Strangers.

Signs and symptoms

Rigidity and weakness.

Espasmos painful sudden, that gets worse with the movement.

Nodules or zones located very painful when touching them (neuralgic points or trigger).

Painful muscular zones.

Fatigue.

Difficulty to sleep.

Factors of risk

Although it is of unknown origin, his symptoms and severity increases with: Stress.

Muscular injury.

Exhibition to the humidity or the cold.

Medical antecedents of diseases that produce inflammation of the joints, like arthritis

rheumatic or the poliarteritis.

Virales infections.

Bad feeding.

Fatigue or excess of work.

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