an essential guide for patients and their families /
Daniel J. Wallace, Janice Brock Wallace.
New York :
Oxford University Press,
2003.
1 online resource (ix, 196 pages) :
illustrations
Includes index.
This is a guide to fibromyalgia, a syndrome that affects six million Americans annually. Fibromyalgia is a form of chronic neuromuscular pain, a pain-amplification syndrome brought on by abnormal interactions between hormones, the immune system, neurotransmitters, and the autonomic nervous system.