Criteria for diagnosing fibromyalgia was first standardized by a multi-center study in 1990, which resulted in the American College ofRheumatology(ACR) 1990 classification criteria for fibromyalgia based on a tender point examination. This classification was later replaced by the 2010 ACR diagnostic crit...
The article describes the advances towards understanding fibromyalgia (FM), a chronic musculoskeletal pain disorder. It presents the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) 1990 classification criteria of the disease used for clinical trials, and the 2010 clinical diagnostic criteria developed by Wolfe ...
Sites selected as part of ACR 1990 criteria4 represent tender point sites that best discriminate between patients with and without fibromyalgia. To test for pain with digital palpation, the ACR 1990 criteria indicate that the examiner should press the tender point site with an approximate force of...
There has been confusion surrounding regional medical conditions, primary psychological conditions, and fibromyalgia in practice and in the literature. Confusing terminology and inappropriate use of diagnostic criteria have contributed to this problem. Use of the 1990 ACR Criteria for the Classification of...
Attendees completed an additional questionnaire and underwent a rheumatologic examination, and their signs and symptoms were classified according to the ACR 1990, 2010, and modified 2010 criteria. The prevalence of fibromyalgia according to each set of criteria was calculated, weighting back to the ...
The ACR criteria (1990) are currently a “gold standard” applied for FM diagnosing, but a number of scoring systems and scales are valid tools for fibromyalgia assessment, differential diagnosis, treatment evaluation and estimation of patient’s quality of life. Treatment. According to multiple ...
Fibromyalgia criteria and severity scales for clinical and epidemiological studies: a modification of the ACR Preliminary Diagnostic Criteria for Fibromyal... OBJECTIVE: To develop a fibromyalgia (FM) survey questionnaire for epidemiologic and clinical studies using a modification of the 2010 American Col...
19 Additionally, the case definition of fibromyalgia has evolved in the past 20 years to include cognitive and other symptoms that are not included in the 1990 ACR criteria.1 Finally, tender points are highly correlated with psychological distress and are absent in as many as 25% of patients ...
Additionally, systematic pain assessment including algometric and psychometric data was carried out.Twenty-five patients (8.3%) had been diagnosed with FM according to the ACR 1990 criteria. Twenty-one of them (84%) also met the new ACR 2010 criteria. In total, 130 patients (43%) fulfilled ...
This ACR 1990 criterion is not practical clinically as the examination of tender points is not entirely objective for both the examiner and the examined. The 2010–2011 diagnostic criteria interpret fibromyalgia as a syndrome of multiple symptoms, thus eliminating the examination of tender points. ...