Management strategies for fibromyalgia

Open Access Rheumatology: Research and Reviews

Volumn 3, Issue , 2011, Pages 47-51

  le Marshall, Kim Francis ^a   Littlejohn, Geoffrey Owen ^a  

^a MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Evidence; Fibromyalgia; Management; Pain; Treatment

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; ANALGESIC AGENT; CITALOPRAM; CYCLOBENZAPRINE; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; DULOXETINE; FLUOXETINE; GABAPENTIN; MILNACIPRAN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; OXYBATE SODIUM; PLACEBO; PREGABALIN; SEROTONIN ANTAGONIST; SEROTONIN NORADRENALIN REUPTAKE INHIBITOR; TRAMADOL; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

AEROBIC EXERCISE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; DIZZINESS; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMAN; HYDROTHERAPY; META ANALYSIS; MYALGIA; PAIN; PATIENT EDUCATION; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SLEEP DISORDER; SOMNOLENCE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 80052855428     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1179156X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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