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import Article from "@/components/Article";
import { Metadata } from "next";
export const metadata: Metadata = {
title: "Article - Chronic Muscle Pain | Dr. Feely",
authors: [{ name: "Robert M. Kidd, M.D." }],
description: `If you are tired and fatigued and if your muscles ache all over,
you may suffer from fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS), which is characterized by
widespread pain and tenderness at specific points on certain muscle groups
(joints are not usually involved). Symptoms most often come from hip, back,
shoulder and neck muscles and usually arise gradually, often following a
sprain, strain, whiplash, or other trauma. Some patients report FMS symptom
onset following viral or bacterial infection. Many sufferers say it feels like
they have the flu all the time.`,
};
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const ArticleChronicMusclePain = () => {
return (
<Article title="Chronic Muscle Pain" author="Robert M. Kidd, M.D.">
<p>
If you are tired and fatigued and if your muscles ache all over, you may
suffer from fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS), which is characterized by
widespread pain and tenderness at specific points on certain muscle
groups (joints are not usually involved). Symptoms most often come from
hip, back, shoulder and neck muscles and usually arise gradually, often
following a sprain, strain, whiplash, or other trauma. Some patients
report FMS symptom onset following viral or bacterial infection. Many
sufferers say it feels like they have the flu all the time.
</p>
<p>
FMS remains a painful and poorly understood condition. There is no
single cause. It seems to strike women between the ages of 20 and 50
(about 25 percent of those with FMS are men), and there is no single
treatment that is effective for every person. The signs and symptoms
include fatigue, chronic muscle ache, sleep disturbance, anxiety,
tenderness at specific muscle points, morning stiffness, intestinal
complaints, and shortness of breath.
</p>
<p>
There are no laboratory tests that can confirm a diagnosis of FMS.
However, some practitioners of holistic medicine may order functional
tests to determine if a metabolic imbalance is the source of muscle pain
and fatigue. There are no generally effective medical treatments,
either. However, aspirin, ibuprofen, indomethacin and other medications
have been effectively used to relieve musculoskeletal pain, and the
antidepressant Elavil has been helpful for some FMS patients.
</p>
<p>
What can be said is that recovery from FMS requires an integrated
approach that includes nutrition, diet therapy, mind/body work,
medication in some cases, exercise, lifestyle modification, acupuncture,
osteopathic manipulation and other modalities provided by a team
approach with different professionals working together.
</p>
</Article>
);
};
export default ArticleChronicMusclePain;