ReviewThe Korean journal of pain2015
The Iceberg Nature of Fibromyalgia Burden: The Clinical and Economic Aspects.
Review in The Korean journal of pain, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06226376 (The Effects of EXOPULSE Mollii Suit on Fibromyalgia Syndrome in Patients With Fibromyalgia), which is not on this map. Cited by 32 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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The Effects of EXOPULSE Mollii Suit on Fibromyalgia Syndrome in Patients With Fibromyalgia (EXOFIB 2): A Sham Controlled Randomized Double-Blind Trial
Who cites it
32 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 73 citations in OpenAlex.
- Flexibility exercise training for adults with fibromyalgia.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- The effects of EXOPULSE Mollii Suit in patients with fibromyalgia: a double-blind randomized sham-controlled trial (EXOFIB2).Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) · 2026Trial
- Differential effects of bifrontal and occipital nerve stimulation on pain and fatigue using transcranial direct current stimulation in fibromyalgia patients.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2017Trial
- Self-Reported Symptom Burden and Clinical Characteristics in Fibromyalgia: Evidence from a Large Online Survey in Italy.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026Article
- Pain invalidation is an independent determinant of fibromyalgia, irrespective of depression.The Korean journal of pain · 2025Article
- Review
- Differences in Fibromyalgia Characteristics by Mode of Commute and Age in Women: The Al-Ándalus Project.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Social costs associated with fibromyalgia in Spain.Health economics review · 2024Article
- The role of lifestyle factors in the association between education and self-reported fibromyalgia: a mediation analysis.BMC women's health · 2024Article
- Pain, comorbidities, and clinical decision-making: conceptualization, development, and pilot testing of the Pain in Aging, Educational Assessment of Need instrument.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Nationwide-incidence and trends of fibromyalgia in South Korea: a population-based study.Rheumatology international · 2023Article
- Lifestyle risk factors of self-reported fibromyalgia in the Norwegian Women and Cancer (NOWAC) study.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Do Chronic Low Back Pain and Chronic Widespread Pain differ in their association with Depression Symptoms in the 1958 British Cohort?Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) · 2023Article
- Artificial Neural Networks Coupled with MALDI-TOF MS Serum Fingerprinting To Classify and Diagnose Pathological Pain Subtypes in Preclinical Models.ACS chemical neuroscience · 2023Article
- Nociplastic pain concept, a mechanistic basis for pragmatic approach to fibromyalgia.Clinical rheumatology · 2022Review
- A behavioral and brain imaging dataset with focus on emotion regulation of women with fibromyalgia.Scientific data · 2022Article
- Effect of vitamin B12 on the symptom severity and psychological profile of fibromyalgia patients; a prospective pre-post study.BMC rheumatology · 2022Article
- Distress as a mediator for pain and activities of daily living in older adults with fibromyalgia.Frontiers in medicine · 2022Article
- Recruitment characteristics and non-adherence associated factors of fibromyalgia patients in a randomized clinical trial: A retrospective survival analysis.Contemporary clinical trials communications · 2021Article
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4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
This review has focused on important but less visible aspects of fibromyalgia (FM) with respect to the high impact of this disorder on patients and societies. FM is a common but challengeable illness. It is characterized by chronic widespread pain, which can be accompanied by other symptoms including fatigue, sleep disturbances, cognitive dysfunction, anxiety and depressive episodes. While our understanding of this debilitating disorder is limited, diagnosis and treatment of this condition is very difficult, even in the hands of experts. Due to the nature of disease, where patients experience invalidation by medical services, their families and societies regarding the recognition and management of disease, direct, indirect and immeasurable costs are considerable. These clinical and economic costs are comparable with other common diseases, such as diabetes, hypertension and osteoarthritis, but the latter usually receives much more attention from healthcare and non-healthcare resources. Present alarming data shows the grave and "iceberg-like" burden of FM despite the benign appearance of this disorder and highlights the urgent need both for greater awareness of the disease among medical services and societies, as well as for more research focused on easily used diagnostic methods and target specific treatment.
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