Researchers Discover Possible Cause of Fibromyalgia
Researchers from Tel Aviv University have discovered that using HBOT greatly reduced or even eliminated pain symptoms in
women with fibromyalgia, making it possible for many to quit their pain medication.
After this
discovery, a group of researchers from different universities worked together to explore if this information can provide us more answers about the disease. Based on this new knowledge, they believe that the cause of fibromyalgia is an inability of the brain to properly process pain.
“[T]he most important finding for me is that 70 percent of the patients could recover from their fibromyalgia symptoms. The most exciting finding for the world of research, however, is that we were able to map the malfunctioning brain regions responsible for the syndrome,” said Dr. Shai Efrati of TAU’s Sagol School of Neuroscience and Assaf Harofeh Medical Center.
This is not the first time researchers have noticed a different response to pain in fibromyalgia patients compared to other patients. A
2013 study published in
Arthritis & Rheumatism found that fibromyalgia patients had disruptions of brain signals that contribute to pain sensitivity, and that provided some explanation to why pain medications have been ineffective for this condition.
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