Musculoskeletal · UKMLA & AKT
Fibromyalgia
A free high-yield preview for the UKMLA Applied Knowledge Test. Below are the key points to recognise fibromyalgia — the full SA Note notes add investigations, management, complications and 10 practice questions.
Key high-yield points
- Chronic centralised pain disorder - widespread musculoskeletal pain, fatigue, and cognitive difficulties with NO identifiable inflammatory or structural pathology
- Mechanism: central sensitisation - heightened CNS excitability causing allodynia and hyperalgesia; disorder of pain processing, not primary muscle/joint disease
- Women ~10x more affected; typical age 20-50 years
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