Physical examination: ◦ positive Yocum test; ◦ painful arc; ◦ diffuse pain at palpation of the greater tuberosity; ◦ disturbed scapulohumeral rhythm; ◦ no signs of pathologies or symptoms on the controlateral shoulder; ◦ capable of 90 degrees of passive abduction and 90 degrees of external rotation.
Fibromyalgia syndrome is a common painful syndrome characterized by the presence of chronic diffuse pain [ 1].
It was a diffuse pain, but pain nonetheless.
"I went for the zebras," he said, meaning rare diseases, "because frankly, after all the doctors she's seen, I was pretty sure all the horses had already been looked at". 4. POSSIBLE DIAGNOSIS Podell has a list of unusual diseases that he considers in patients who have this kind of diffuse pain.
Allodynia expressed during acute headache, correlated with the invalidity linked with diffuse pain.
Atypical facial pain does not have the neuralgiform characteristics seen in TN, but is often a more constant, diffuse pain.
Fibromyalgia (FM) is characterized by diffuse pain, fatigue, and sleep disturbances; symptoms that resemble the adult growth hormone (GH) deficiency syndrome.
Despite FM patients exhibiting higher depression and anxiety levels, it was the latter feature that best discriminated patients with diffuse pain among our headache population.
A particular attention was taken in screening out patients suffering from various conditions with diffuse pain, such as arthritis, diabetes or other metabolic causes of neuropathic pain.
A phenotypic profile where headache frequency concurs with anxiety, sleep disturbance, and pericranial tenderness should be individuated to detect the development of diffuse pain in headache patients.
