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Exteroceptive suppression of temporalis muscle activity in patients with fibromyalgia, tension-type headache, and normal controls.
Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology 1998 September
Changes of the second suppressive period (ES2) of the exteroceptive suppression of the temporalis muscle activity are found in patients with chronic tension-type headache (TTH) and are suggested to reflect an abnormal endogenous pain control system. We investigated whether similar changes are found in patients with the fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) that is also believed to result from disturbed central pain processing. The ES2 values of 27 patients with FMS were compared with those of 18 patients with TTH and 40 healthy volunteers. The duration of ES2 (+/-SD) in FMS patients was 30.6+/-7.5 ms and was not significantly different from the control group (33.1+/-7.8 ms), whereas it was significantly shortened in TTH patients (22.9+/-11.5 ms). Our results indicate that, despite similar concepts on the pathophysiology of the two chronic pain disorders, there are no comparable changes of this brain stem reflex activity in FMS.
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