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Parent topics
- Chronic widespread pain [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Comorbidity [r]: The presence of co-existing or additional diseases with reference to an initial diagnosis or with reference to the index condition that is the subject of study [e]
- Pain medicine [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Pain [r]: Unpleasant feeling or hurtful sensation that is conveyed to the brain by stimulation of sensory neurons. [e]
- Rheumatology [r]: Medical specialty that deals with the study, diagnosis, and treatment of connective tissue diseases; a subspecialty of internal medicine [e]
- Neurology [r]: The medical specialty concerned with evaluating the nervous system and the other system that it affects, and the treatment of nervous system disorders. [e] (subhead neuromuscular medicine)
- Sleep medicine [r]: Add brief definition or description
Specialized examination
- Dolorimeter [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Electromyography [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Polysomnography [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Trigger points [r]: Add brief definition or description
Useful laboratory studies
- Antinuclear antibodies [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Complete blood count [r]: A basic set of counts and ratios of various blood cells, which can be both individually and jointly valuable in medical diagnosis [e]
- Cryoglobulins [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Erythrocyte sedimentation rate [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Rheumatoid factor [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Serum protein electrophoresis [r]: Add brief definition or description
- SS antigens [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Thyroid panel [r]: Add brief definition or description
Differential diagnosis
Many of these can be comorbidities.
- Chronic fatigue syndrome [r]: Syndrome characterized by persistent or recurrent fatigue, diffuse musculoskeletal pain, sleep disturbances, and subjective cognitive impairment of 6 months duration or longer. [e]
- Chronic pain [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Mood disorder [r]: Add brief definition or description (major depressive disorder)
- Hemochromatosis [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Hypothyroidism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Mixed connective tissue disorder [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Polymyalgia rheumatica [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Rheumatoid arthritis [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Scleroderma [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sjogren's syndrome [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Systemic lupus erythematosus [r]: Add brief definition or description
Treatment
- Antidepressants [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Anticonvulsants [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Clonidine [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Cognitive behavioral therapy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Capsaicin [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Dextromethorphan [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Tramadol [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Hypnotics [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Multiple sclerosis [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Magnetic resonance angiography [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Functional magnetic resonance imaging [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Headache [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Acupuncture [r]: Add brief definition or description