A journey from fibrositis to central sensitization to nociplastic pain
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Nociplastic pain is now the term preferred by pain scientists to explain a syndrome wherein pain occurs in the absence of ongoing nociceptive input or nerve damage. The term most pain researchers used prior to this for this phenomena was central sensitization. However rheumatologists referred to the individuals who most obviously clinically displayed these symptoms, and originally this entity was termed fibrositis – until it became clear there was no -itis in this condition and it was renamed fibromyalgia. Research into fibromyalgia and a number of chronic overlapping pain conditions has helped formed the basis for our mechanistic understanding of nociplastic pain as well as what treatments are effective for these conditions.
Date: 9 May 2023, 12:00 (Tuesday, 3rd week, Trinity 2023)
Venue: FMRIB Centre, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: WIN@FMRIB Annexe Cowey Seminar
Speaker: Prof Daniel Clauw (University of Michigan)
Organising department: Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences
Organiser: Andrew Galloway (University of Oxford)
Part of: WIN Wednesdays Seminar Series
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editors: Nancy Rawlings, Andrew Galloway