Skin layer thickness, muscle elasticity and their effects on pain level in fibromyalgia patients
Selçuk Akan, Mehtap Balaban, Ahmet Kor, Bahadir Erturk · 2025
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Selçuk Akan, Mehtap Balaban, Ahmet Kor, and Bahadir Erturk measure skin and muscle in fibromyalgia in this 2025 study. The syndrome brings widespread pain, fatigue, and foggy thinking, yet no lab test or scan can confirm it, and its workings stay partly mysterious.
Eighty-nine women with the syndrome and thirty-six healthy women had ultrasound measures of the trapezius muscle and the skin layers above it. Patients showed thinner skin, thicker trapezius muscles, and stiffer muscle readings on elastography. Pain scores tracked the stiffness readings strongly, though not skin or muscle thickness. The authors suggest thin skin may feed the oversensitivity to touch that haunts this condition, and they offer the measures as clues for diagnosis research.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Selçuk Akan, Mehtap Balaban, Ahmet Kor, Bahadir Erturk |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 26 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |