Rational treatment of fibromyalgia for a solo practitioner

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 341-352

  Paiva, Eduardo S ^a   Jones, Kim Dupree ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

fibromyalgia; interdisciplinary management

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CYCLOBENZAPRINE; DESVENLAFAXINE; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; DULOXETINE; FLUOXETINE; GABAPENTIN; HYPNOTIC AGENT; METHYLPHENIDATE; MILNACIPRAN; MODAFINIL; MONOAMINE OXIDASE INHIBITOR; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; OXYBATE SODIUM; PARACETAMOL; PRAMIPEXOLE; PREGABALIN; SEROTONIN NORADRENALIN REUPTAKE INHIBITOR; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; TRAMADOL; TRAZODONE; TRIPTAN DERIVATIVE; UNINDEXED DRUG; VENLAFAXINE; ZOLPIDEM;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ANXIETY; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CATAPLEXY; CHOLINERGIC SIDE EFFECT; CLINICAL EXERCISE SPECIALIST; CLINICAL TRIAL; DAYTIME SOMNOLENCE; DEPRESSION; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DIETITIAN; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIZZINESS; DRUG APPROVAL; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; EDEMA; ENDOCRINOLOGIST; EVENING DOSAGE; FATIGUE; FIBROMYALGIA; GAIT; GASTROENTEROLOGIST; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; GYNECOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LEISURE; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; MORNING DOSAGE; NAUSEA; NEUROLOGIST; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NEUROSURGEON; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST; ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON; ORTHOTICS; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSIOTHERAPIST; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; PSYCHIATRIST; PSYCHOLOGIST; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; REVIEW; SEDATION; SEIZURE; SELF CARE; SEROTONERGIC SYNDROME; SIDE EFFECT; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SLEEP DISORDER; SOMNOLENCE; SPEECH THERAPIST; SPLINT; ULTRASOUND THERAPY; UROLOGY; VOMITING; WEIGHT GAIN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PAIN; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; PRIVATE PRACTICE; QUALITY OF LIFE;

ALLIED HEALTH PERSONNEL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMANS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; PAIN; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PRIVATE PRACTICE; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 77956634593     PISSN: 15216942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.berh.2009.12.010     Document Type: Review

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