Acupuncture and fibromyalgia

As we all know fibromyalgia is a very painful medical condition. Indeed it is the symptom which gets the most mentions in a lot of the research we have conducted over the years.

In particular members of the fibromyalgia community have localised as well as “all over” pain. Indeed people with fibromyalgia often have severe headaches and women have very painful periods.

But in this blog post and poll I would like to focus the area of fibromyalgia pain which could be referred as “tender points”. Or , put another way, parts of the body where people feel pain when pressure is applied. This is also called Allodynia.

Most often these pressure points will be found:-

• back of the head
• area between the shoulders
• front of the neck
• top of the chest
• outside of the elbows
• top and sides of the hips
• insides of the knees

but of course their are others.

The aim of this blog is to allow our readers to share a bit more about their tender points. There are two ways you can help. Firstly it would be great if you could take the poll below.

Secondly we would love it if you could share how you treated the pain and the tenderness in the comments section below.

You might also be interested in some previous research we conducted into treatments for fibromyalgia here.