Usefulness of tenderness to characterise fibromyalgia severity in women

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 29, Issue 6 SUPPL. 69, 2011, Pages

  Aparicio, V A ^a,b,c   Carbonell Baeza, A ^a,c   Ortega, F B ^a,b   Estevez F ^a   Ruiz, J R ^a,b   Delgado Fernandez M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fibromyalgia; Pain; Quality of life; Women

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALGOMETER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; FIBROMYALGIA IMPACT QUESTIONNAIRE; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; JOB PERFORMANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RIGIDITY; SHORT FORM 36; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TENDER POINT COUNT; CHRONIC PAIN; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITALIZATION; HYPERALGESIA; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN THRESHOLD; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SYNDROME;

CHRONIC PAIN; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; HYPERALGESIA; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRESSURE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SYNDROME;

EID: 84858843903     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: 1593098X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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