Fibromyalgia Pain Points

Also known as Trigger Points

Fibromyalgia pain points (pressure points or trigger points) are used to help aid in the diagnose this condition. When a person hurts all throughout their body it is hard to pinpoint where exactly the pain is coming from.

Doctors use these trigger point sites as an aid to your diagnosis. You must discuss all the symptoms that you are having, as well.

Some of these symptoms may be sleeping problems, stress you may be experiencing, deep muscle pain, depression, fatigue or more.

Fibromyalgia pain points are located throughout your body. They are located in pairs.

• At the base of your skull.

• The base of your neck.

• On your upper chest, about an inch or two below your collarbone.

• Along the back of your upper shoulders.

• Upper back, along your shoulder blades and close to your spine.

• Inside of the elbows

• On your lower back, just outside the dimples of your buttocks.

• Below your buttocks, on the upper outside edge of the thigh.

• Right above your knee caps on the inner side.

These fibromyalgia tender points are areas of localized areas of tenderness around your joints, but it is not in the joints themselves.

When these pain points are pressed upon with a finger they hurt. This is not a deep pain but more localized. Tender points are not large areas of pain but are about the size of a nickel.

But, these areas are very sensitive to pressure. The pain will make you want to move away from the pressure.

It is not known why these trigger points exists or why that the location of these pain points are always in the same place.

This is why many people with with these trigger points experience similar symptoms.

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