The Mystery of Fibromyalgia
The Mystery of Fibromyalgia
American Chiropractic Association
Although medical science has known of the complex chronic pain syndrome called fibromyalgia since well before 1904 (when Gowers described it as an inflammatory condition he dubbed fibrositis), the American College of Rheumatology provided the first clear diagnostic definition of it in 1990. Indeed, three-quarters of a century earlier, an Edinburgh physician described the "tender points" that are now a central component of the fibromyalgia diagnosis.1 In 1976, the name "fibromyalgia" replaced the misleading "fibrositis" after scientists realized that no inflammation could be found in patients with the syndrome.2
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