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Centralized nociplastic pain causing fibromyalgia: an emperor with no cloths?

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The leading school of thought views fibromyalgia as a central sensitization syndrome. Nociplastic pain is the recently proposed term to mechanistically explain central sensitization. Accumulating research suggests an alternate explanation; fibromyalgia can be conceptualized as a neuropathic pain syndrome and dorsal root ganglia (not the brain) as the primary fibromyalgia pain source. There is no need to propose nociplastic pain as new chronic pain mechanism.

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  1. Chief Rheumatology Department, National Institute of Cardiology, Mexico City, Mexico

    Manuel Martínez-Lavín

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Martínez-Lavín, M. Centralized nociplastic pain causing fibromyalgia: an emperor with no cloths?. Clin Rheumatol 41, 3915–3917 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10067-022-06407-5

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