Nerve Damage and Fibromyalgia
As reported in the Harvard Gazette last week, a new study by researchers at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) had new results linked to Fibromyalgia. Their results will appear in the journal Pain and has been released online.
Half of the group of patients tested with fibromyalgia were found to have damage to nerve fibers in their skin and other evidence of a disease called small-fiber polyneuropathy (SFPN).
“This provides some of the first objective evidence of a mechanism behind some cases of fibromyalgia, and identifying an underlying cause is the first step towards finding better treatments,” says Anne Louise Oaklander, an associate professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, director of the Nerve Injury Unit in the MGH Department of Neurology, and corresponding author of the Pain paper.
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