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Critical Review
Understanding Fibromyalgia: Lessons from the Broader Pain Research Community
The Journal of Pain
Vol. 10Issue 8p777–791Published in issue: August, 2009
- David A. Williams
- Daniel J. Clauw
Cited in Scopus: 181
Fibromyalgia (FM) is a chronic pain condition marked by centrally mediated augmentation of pain and sensory processes. Skepticism has marked the history of this condition, but more recent study has identified neurobiological underpinnings supporting many of the symptoms associated with this condition. Early research in FM had unprecedented latitude within the rheumatology community to borrow heavily from theory and methods being applied in chronic pain research more generally. These insights facilitated rapid advances in FM research, not the least of which was the abandonment of a peripheral focus in favor of studying central mechanisms associated with central augmentation.