Fibromyalgia Health Center
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What Research Is Being Done on Fibromyalgia?
The NIAMS sponsors research to help understand fibromyalgia and find better ways to diagnose, treat, and prevent it. Researchers are studying:
- why people with fibromyalgia have increased sensitivity to pain
- medicines and behavioral treatments
- whether there is a gene or genes that make a person more likely to have fibromyalgia
- the use of imaging methods, such as magnetic resonate imaging (MRI), to better understand fibromyalgia
- inflammation in the body and its relationship to fibromyalgia
- nondrug therapies to help reduce pain
- methods to improve sleep in people with fibromyalgia