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Find out how flexible you areTrying to diagnose fibromyalgia can be difficult as there are no distinct causes of the syndrome; at it shares many symptoms with other medical conditions. However, one way of identifying fibromyalgia is to use the trigger point method. Here, our muscle and joint expert Earle Logan talks about how to diagnose fibromyalgia using the eighteen trigger points around the body to determine physical sensitivity and tenderness.
Diagnosing fibromyalgia can be tricky as blood tests and scans reveal no abnormalities. For this reason, doctors have to rely on examining physical symptoms to build a picture of your sensitivity to pain and movement. In particular, there are eighteen trigger points (or nine paired trigger points) which give the clearest indication of your physical symptoms.
The eighteen trigger points have very specific locations, as indicated on the diagram.
These are at:
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Although fibromyalgia sufferers may experience pain throughout their body, they will have increased sensitivity at these trigger points, each of which are about the size of a penny.
Often a doctor will test these trigger points to help diagnose fibromyalgia, but it is possible for you, with the help of a friend, to test these trigger points too. If pressing the points until the skin turns white causes severe tenderness and shooting pains, this is an indication that they are positive trigger points.
If you experience this sensation with at least eleven of these trigger points, then most doctors will consider you to be a fibromyalgia sufferer, although some doctors consider around eight positive trigger points to be a confirmation of fibromyalgia. Some sufferers experience pain at all of these points.
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