Fibromyalgia Syndrome Clinical Picture, Diagnosis, Treatment

Abstract

Fibromyalgia syndrome (FS) is an extra-articular disease characterized by diffuse pain, fatigue of the skeletal muscles, and a decrease in the level of pain threshold on palpation in characteristic places designated as “pain points”. Although the syndrome of fibromyalgia, also described in the literature under the names generalized tendomyopathy, fibrositis, is a relatively new disease for rheumatologists in most countries, this symptom complex, referred to as muscular rheumatism, was mentioned in European literature as early as the 17th century. The absence of signs of inflammation in the muscles during morphological examination excluded the use of the term “fibrositis”, therefore, in the last decade, the name of this pathology as fibromyalgic syndrome has taken root in the literature.