How to Do Fibromyalgia Diagnosis

Fibromyalgia Tender Points: The Constant Source of Pain

	Fibromyalgia diagnosis start when patient have more than eleven tender points for more than three months.

Fibromyalgia is not an easy disorder to recognize. It has no obvious physical signs on the body of the patient. Physician tends to do very careful diagnosis before judging their patient suffering this syndrome. The diagnosis of fibromyalgia will not start before patients fit a certain set of criteria. Here are those criteria:

1. The patient must have experienced widespread pain on four quadrant of their body for at least three months.
2. The patient must have at least eleven out of eighteen tenderness areas, what they called fibromyalgia tender points.

Fibromyalgia syndrome is something we all should aware of. Because patients who has this symptoms, especially men, are often undiagnosed or misdiagnosed. Therefore people must aware of about tender points, then perhaps the diagnosis of fibromyalgia symptoms would be more precise and can be early to recognize.

What is Fibromyalgia Tender Points?

Even though the real cause of fibromyalgia syndrome still remain unknown. Physician can do diagnosis of fibromyalgia by identify its sources of pain, they called as “trigger points”. These are multiple tender points spread on the human body. When doing fibromyalgia diagnosis, a physician confirms the presence of fibromyalgia tender points on at least eleven out of eighteen parts of the body. Tender point is tender areas that cause severe pain when pressed.

Below are the locations of tender points typically located:

1. Occiput tender points
   The first two fibromyalgia tender points are located at the base of the skull.
2. Low Cervical tender points
   The next two tender points are located at the lower vertebrae of the neck
3. Trapezius tender points
   Tender points throughout the neck, mid back and upper back muscles between the shoulder blades.
4. Supraspinatus tender points
   Located near the spins.
5. Second Rib tender points
   Located near the second rib.
6. Lateral Epicondyle tender points
   Two tender points located near the elbow.
7. The Gluteal tender points can be
   Tender points that found in the muscles of the buttocks.
8. Greater Trochanter tender points
   Two tender points located at the knee.

When pressed, fibromyalgia tender points do not cause severe pain all over the body. Rather, pain will only occur at that particular point on the body. Some describe the fibromyalgia tender points as bruises in various stages. Until today, the existence of the eleven tender points still remains as best diagnostic tool for diagnosing fibromyalgia.

If you have tenderness in your body in at least eleven tender point in more than three months. You should seek a doctor to start diagnosing yourself and do proper fibromyalgia treatments. You can also seek another help from others by finding support groups, this kind of fibromyalgia help can relief you in pshycological aspect and many other aspects.

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