{"id":102,"date":"2012-04-30T14:11:41","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T18:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pay.blackstonemedicalservices.com\/blog\/?p=102"},"modified":"2021-01-25T17:15:47","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T21:15:47","slug":"is-there-a-link-between-sleep-problems-and-fibromyalgia-pain-tampa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wpt-ydlv.199-250-204-138.cpanel.site\/?p=102","title":{"rendered":"Is There A Link Between Sleep Problems And Fibromyalgia Pain? Tampa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--!!!!!!--><!--div><\/div-->People with fibromyalgia often report problems with sleeping, but a new study in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1526590011009564\" target=\"_hplink\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the <em>Journal of Pain<\/em> <\/a>shows that troubled sleep doesn&#8217;t actually predict fibromyalgia pain.<\/p>\n<p>University of Florida researchers hypothesized that because past research has shown a link between troubled sleep and other kinds of pain, as well as a link between sleep deprivation and pain in people who <em>don&#8217;t<\/em> have fibromyalgia, there might be a link between less sleep and pain from fibromyalgia.<\/p>\n<p>But in their study, they found that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1526590011009564\" target=\"_hplink\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lack of sleep<\/a> was not able to predict the pain the study participants felt. Their study was based on 74 people with fibromyalgia, whose sleep and pain information was taken for 14 days.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This study suggests that measures of sleep duration and nightly wake time do not predict fibromyalgia pain at the group level,&#8221; the researchers wrote in the study. Rather, they said that being inactive or having fatigue may better predict pain than the amount of sleep obtained in a night.<\/p>\n<p>However, this research isn&#8217;t to say there&#8217;s <em>no<\/em> link between sleep and fibromyalgia. A recent study in the journal <em>Arthritis &amp; Rheumatism<\/em> showed that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/11\/15\/sleep-problems-fibromyalgia-women_n_1095338.html\" target=\"_hplink\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">trouble sleeping<\/a> can increase a woman&#8217;s risk of developing fibromyalgia by more than three times, compared to people who get better rest, Health.com reported.<\/p>\n<p>But still, the researchers of that study cautioned that the research doesn&#8217;t show that sleep problems cause fibromyalgia, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/11\/15\/sleep-problems-fibromyalgia-women_n_1095338.html\" target=\"_hplink\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Health.com reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Sleep problems are just one factor that may contribute to the development of fibromyalgia,&#8221; says Paul J. Mork, Ph.D., a study coauthor and a researcher at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, in Trondheim. &#8220;Fibromyalgia is a complex pain syndrome and there are numerous other factors that may contribute to the development of this illness.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People with fibromyalgia often report problems with sleeping, but a new study in the Journal of Pain shows that troubled sleep doesn&#8217;t actually predict fibromyalgia pain. University of Florida researchers hypothesized that because past research has shown a link between troubled sleep and other kinds of pain, as well as a link between sleep deprivation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wpt-ydlv.199-250-204-138.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wpt-ydlv.199-250-204-138.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wpt-ydlv.199-250-204-138.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wpt-ydlv.199-250-204-138.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wpt-ydlv.199-250-204-138.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wpt-ydlv.199-250-204-138.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wpt-ydlv.199-250-204-138.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wpt-ydlv.199-250-204-138.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wpt-ydlv.199-250-204-138.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}