| Scientist are working very hard to better understand | | | | understand why patients suffering from fibromyalgia |
| what causes fibromyalgia, or what problems | | | | have an increased pain sensitivity. |
| accompany this disease. This way they are improving | | | | Actual research has started to reveal interesting |
| the odes of a correct diagnose, better treatment | | | | facts about the human brain. It seams that people |
| and also prevention of the illness. | | | | with this disorders have reduced blood flow to the |
| Universities and special medical institutions, like NIAMS, | | | | parts of the brain that usually deal with the |
| are covering a wide spectrum when it comes to | | | | perception of the pain. Scientists now have the help |
| research. They are doing detailed laboratory work in | | | | of modern technology to better conduct their tests. |
| studying new medications for the drugs and the | | | | With special machines, they will use an unique method |
| good and bad effects that they have on the patient. | | | | called positron emission therapy tomography to see |
| Special treatments are also being researched so that | | | | the difference of blood flow between women that |
| people with this disorder don’t have to suffer as | | | | suffer from the diseases and women that are not |
| much from the pain. A particular part of their studies | | | | suffering from the disease. Same kind of tests are |
| investigates the use of special interventions to | | | | being done in men so that all spectrums of the illness |
| encourage certain behaviors that help in reducing the | | | | are best understood. After a certain amount of time |
| level of pain; through this they are also trying to | | | | results of these two tests will be compared and |
| eliminate behaviors that actually worsen or help in | | | | thoroughly analyzed. |
| perpetuating the pain. | | | | To best understand the action of many diseases. |
| A significant part of the studies done by researchers | | | | Scientists are actually using different test with lab |
| is actually done to better understand the pain. Some | | | | mice. Symptoms in lab mice and rats are very similar |
| scientist suggest that the problem with patients is | | | | to those felt by humans; the same thing applies to |
| that they actually have difficulty in proper processing | | | | the action of the disease. First studying the long term |
| the amount of pain that they feel. In other words it | | | | effects on lab mice actually provides the very bases |
| seams that people with this illness have a | | | | for future research done to understand and treat |
| hypersensitivity to stimuli that normally are not that | | | | fibromyalgia in humans. |
| painful. By understanding pain they also hope to | | | | |