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| Volume 6, Issue 4 | January 2001 |
PRACTICE POINTS
Neither disbelief nor blind faith are helpful in the assessment of FMS disability
Assessment questions for medical experts
1. Were pre-injury symptoms consistent with FMS?
2. Did the injury accelerate or advance pre-existing FMS?
3. Is physical deconditioning causing daily or frequent reinjury?
4. Is the claimant disabled because she believes "hurt = harm"?
5. Is permanent disability the purpose, consciously or unconsciously, of the chronic pain?
6. What would the claimant's health and functioning be, absent the injury?There is now solid evidence that the lowered pain threshold of FMS is mediated by abnormalities of chemicals in nerve cells
Treatments with proven effectiveness:
1. Tricyclic antidepressants
2. Benzodiazepine sedatives
3. Aerobic exercise
4. Some "body-mind" therapiesPrognostic factors:
1. level of education
2. psychosocial gain
3. divorce
4. obesity
5. smokingRelated Guest Articles:
FIBROMYALGIA 1994 - more pieces of the jigsaw
Fibromyalgia 1995-6
Fibromyalgia 1997
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Fibromyalgia News (Fibromyalgia News) Volume 1, Issue 1 Fibromyalgia 1993 (Medical Litigation News) Volume 1, Issue 2 Fibromyalgia 1994 - More Pieces of the Jigsaw
(Medical Litigation News)Volume 1, Issue 8 Fibromyalgia 1995 - 1996 (Medical Litigation News) Volume 2, Issue 3 Fibromyalgia 1997 (Medical Litigation News) Volume 3, Issue 8 Fibromyalgia 1998 (Personal Injury News) Volume 5, Issue 1 Fibromyalgia 1999- 2000 (Personal Injury News) Volume 6, Issue 4 Fibromyalgia 2001 (Personal Injury News) Volume 7, Issue 4
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