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  • Title: Treatment of "resistant" fibromyalgia.
    Author: Wilke WS.
    Journal: Rheum Dis Clin North Am; 1995 Feb; 21(1):247-60. PubMed ID: 7732172.
    Abstract:
    Long-term outcome for the majority of patients with fibromyalgia is sufficiently disappointing so that most patients can be considered to have "resistant" disease. Among published treatments, education, active exercise, and nighttime antidepressant medications perform best. Patients eligible for treatment include those with primarily regional symptoms, wide-spread pain without 11 or fewer tender points, or "typical patients" as defined by the American College of Rheumatology criteria. Factors important in the process of prognosis of the syndrome should be identified and addressed in an integrated therapeutic program in order to positively influence outcome.
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