Fibrositis

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  • Fibrositis is the term most commonly employed to designate pain and tenderness of connective tissue, particularly around joints and in or near muscles and tendons, for which a cause is not evident.
  • The term fibrositis is a misnomer, since this is not an inflammatory disorder of the connective tissue; therefore the term fibromyalgia is now preferred.
  • Fibrositis is a rheumatic disorder that most often strikes women between ages 20 and 50.
  • Fibrositis is a misnomer for a very common form of nonarticular rheumatism.
  • Fibrositis is the one term most used in all English language literature to identify this painful condition of muscles.

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