It seemed ever so clear. The reduction in the number of small nerves in the skin and eyes of roughly forty percent or so of the people with fibromyalgia (FM) and chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) must bring the body – as opposed to the brain – into play....
Surprises Off all the cities I drove through on the Vegas to Florida to D.C. to Nashville to Birmingham to Tuscaloosa to St Louis, Kansas City and then on to Denver, Nashville was the biggest surprise. It’s not a big city, but cranes are everywhere lifting new,...
Dr. Anne Oaklander didn’t just discover the small nerve fiber problems in fibromyalgia, she’s literally trying to build the small nerve fiber field from the bottom up. We can thank the NIH for that: it awarded her with a big ROI grant a couple of years ago...
Difference-Maker Unlike FMS, SFPN has identifiable pathology, physiology, and causes, and thus is definitionally a disease. Oaklander et. Al. Dr. Anne Oaklander MD, PhD, is making a difference – maybe a very big difference in the lives of many. Making a...
The evidence for central nervous system dysfunction in fibromyalgia is clear: the ascending pain producing pathways are overly activated, while the descending pain inhibitory pathways are under-activated. This results is people with fibromyalgia experiencing pain...
We’re going to take a deeper look at the oh so interesting field of small fiber neuropathy fibromyalgia (FM). A debate is raging over how big of a role SFN plays in FM. The central sensitization guys are saying probably “not much” while the immune...