Tài liệu Báo cáo y học: "Treating patients with fibromyalgia in primary care settings under routine medical p

The symptoms of FMS can be prolonged and debilitating. It negatively affects the lives of patients, the people around them, and the environment in which they live. It is one of the rheumatic illnesses with the greatest impact on patient quality of life, having negative consequences on physical capability, intellectual activity, emotional condition, personal relationships, professional career, and mental health to the extent that the patient requires multiple intervention strategies [8-10]. In recent years, fibromyalgia (FM) has acquired greater significance and has become a first-order public health problem. There are several reasons to justify this situation: (a) its high level of prevalence in the general adult population, (b) insufficient knowledge of its cause and the mechanisms that produce it (decrease of the nociceptive perception threshold), (c) absence of a curative treatment, and (d) dissatisfaction of patients and professionals with current therapeutic approaches [7-9]. Given the chronicity of the symptomatology and the disability that it often produces, it is associated with elevated levels of health care and non-health care resources,often stemming from work absenteeism [9].