Implication of the Nociplastic Features for Clinical Diagnosis of Fibromyalgia: Development of the Preliminary Nociplastic-Based Fibromyalgia Features (NFF) Tool.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Nociplastic concept incorporates a broad continuum of pain phenotypes shared with clinical peculiarity. This study aimed to develop and validate a diagnostic tool, the preliminary Nociplastic-based Fibromyalgia Features (NFF), to detect fibromyalgia (FM) in patients with chronic pain.

Methods

Items requiring yes or no responses and relating to the most relevant clinical nociplastic pain (NP) features of FM were compiled by a group of expert rheumatologists. The provisional list was tested in a prospective study on 185 consecutive patients with chronic pain (126 patients with FM and 59 patients with non-FM non-inflammatory chronic pain) diagnosed based on expert decision. Identification of the most discriminant combinations of items for FM and the calculation of the

SUBMITTER: Ghavidel-Parsa B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8916565 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature