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  • OBJECTIVE: Comparison of low back pain (LBP) patients with and without fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) with regard to affective distress. METHODS: Patients with LBP who had been admitted to various clinics in Germany were examined upon admission. Comparisons were done by dividing the patients into groups with and without signs of FMS. Additionally, both groups were compared after being matched according to sex, age, and pain severity. RESULTS: 15 out of 135 LBP patients met the American College of Rheumatology criteria for fibromyalgia. Patients with FMS showed remarkably higher levels of pain severity and affective distress. After controlling for different levels of pain severity, these pronounced differences disappeared. CONCLUSION: Affective distress is not a unique feature of FMS, but seem to be caused entirely by higher levels of pain severity.

  • Many patients with migraine believe weather is a trigger for their headaches. The objective of this study was to determine if very low frequency sferics, pulse-shaped electromagnetic fields originating from atmospheric discharges (lightning), are precipitating factors. The occurrence of sferics impulses is characterized by a daily, as well as an annual, periodicity and is thought to be associated with various pathological processes. The diaries of 37 women suffering from migraine and tension-type headaches were analyzed over a period of 6 months and correlated with daily sferics activity and other weather phenomena in the area of Giessen, Germany. From October through December (autumn), sferics activity was correlated with the occurrence of migraine (r = 0.33, P<.01); however, there was no correlation in July and August (summer), when the thunderstorm activity had been very intense. In summer, tension-type headaches were associated with other weather parameters such as temperature (r = 0.36, P<.01) and vapor pressure (r = 0.27, P<.05).

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