Fibromyalgia

Introduction

Fibromyalgia is a neurological disease. It affects muscles and soft tissues like tendons and ligaments. The symptoms spread throughout the body. Patients feel intense muscular pain, discomfort along with fatigue across the whole body. Other symptoms include lack of sleep, headaches, lack of concentrations, anxiety, depression and confusion. Routine physical examination and laboratory examination often are not enough to diagnose fibromyalgia making diagnosis and treatment a challenge for physicians. Fibromyalgia can be diagnosed only after careful neurological examinations. Treatment of fibromyalgia is usually symptomatic and the disease as yet has no cure. Antidepressants are usually effective in fibromyalgia. Apart from this pain killers and muscles relaxants may also be used. Stem cell therapy has also been proven beneficial in fibromyalgia.

Treatment

Stem cells are cells that have potential to become desired cells of choice. These cells are in fact mother cells that turn into the various types of cells in the human body.

Stem cell therapy could also be effective in a chronic condition like fibromyalgia.

Stem cells in human body constantly change themselves to replace the damaged tissue and keeps the tissue functioning. Stem cell therapy entails taking these immature mother cells from the umbilical cord blood or from patient’s own bone marrow and harvesting them and growing them in the laboratories to turn them into desired cells. Stem cell therapy could also be effective in a chronic condition like fibromyalgia.

Some clinical reports in 2011 suggest that stem cells were transplanted in patients with fibromyalgia. Stem cells were administered intravenously or subcutaneously. Outcome was said to be positive. Significant changes were found in three to six weeks. Literatures suggest stem cell therapy as a promising option for treatment of fibromyalgia.