Fibromyalgia Syndrome and Widespread Pain

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"Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FM) is considered as a recent disease, and some physicians remain doubtful about its reality. In 1926, Hunter had already stated that "it requires a little courage to present a paper on this subject, for fibrositis, or myalgia, has no generally recognised pathology and the term has in the past been used very loosely to cover many pathologic conditions." In fact, the name "fibromyalgia" is recent, proposed by Hench in 1976, but the story began long before this labeling. Over time, its story has been influenced by current concepts, from muscle disorder to psychology, from genetic predisposition to hormonal dysfunction, and finally with important findings related to the neurosciences, from small fibers to brain. We will follow this story along the ages and sciences to better understand this complex pain disorder, between soma and psyche, and between medicine and psychosociology"--