Progress in Methodological Approaches to Study Widespread Chronic Pain in Fibromyalgia

This session provides an in-depth review of the presentation, classification and mechanisms of chronic widespread pain in fibromyalgia syndrome. Over the last decade, we have witnessed several scientific advances in our mechanistic understanding of fibromyalgia algogenesis, but the diagnostic criteria and management of fibromyalgia syndrome remain stagnant. What can the pain community comprising researchers and healthcare professionals do to progress effective pain management for fibromyalgia patients in a precision medicine approach? The talks in this session scope from clinical aspects related to characteristics of centralised pain, the relevance of the neuro-immune axis in disease pathogenesis, as well as omics platforms for profiling cellular substrates mediating pain in fibromyalgia.

Faculty:

• Daniel Clauw
• Luda Diatchenko