Osteoporosis You could have blown me over with a feather. Osteoporosis and fibromyalgia? What in the world could a chronic pain condition have in common with a low bone density condition? Quite a bit, it turns out. Osteoporosis refers to reduced bone density, which...
“MAJOR ARTICLE” It was good to see a study from a major medical university exploring exercise capacity in long COVID and appearing in a prominent medical journal. The Journal of Infectious Diseases gave it the headline “MAJOR ARTICLE”. It came...
Dr. Rodger Murphree’s “Freedom From Fibromyalgia” online summit is back (May 23rd-30th) with a new slate of speakers. If you don’t know Dr. Murphree, he’s a well-known fibromyalgia doctor who takes an alternative medicine approach to FM...
The kind of project that the RECOVER Long COVID Initiative is, with its massive funding, is beginning to emerge. It appears to be a slow-moving, highly conservative effort that is putting a premium on delivering reproducible results but which thus far lacks creativity...
“These data demonstrate that neutrophils are fundamental for the development of chronic widespread pain through the infiltration of peripheral sensory ganglia.” The authors There isn’t a lot of fibromyalgia research going on and the field has gone...
Apheresis only came to the attention of the ME/CFS community a couple of years ago. It’s big in some countries like Germany, but from what I can tell, is hardly used in the U.S. to treat ME/CFS or long COVID. If the authors of a couple of recent papers have...
