Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Soft Tissue Rheumatism

Fibromyalgia has also been known as Soft Tissue Rheumatism or Muscle Rheumatism (Muscular Rheumatism). Rheumatism indicates an inflammation of the joints and their appendages (the tissues that participates in the joint function such as the tendons, the capsule, the ligaments and the muscles around).

So it was a good appellation to call it Soft Tissue or Muscle Rheumatism because it is a muscle disease. It indicated also that as much as the joints can be painful, there is no joint destruction as we can see in rheumatoid arthritis.

Fibro-myalgia is a contraction of soft tissue (fibro), muscle (my for myo) and algia (pain). A good choice. Let's not change it!

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