Psychosomatic Non-Articular Rheumatism

Psychosomatic non-articular rheumatism.

It seems now to be fairly widely agreed that emotional factors are relevant to the study of rheumatism, and particularly of non-articular rheumatism or fibrositis. The Horder Report (1941) stated that " Worry, anxiety, mental shock, can be often recognized as promotive of rheumatic disease ". The relationship is perhaps more often expressed as a matter of differential diagnosis between muscular...

Non-Articular Rheumatism (Fibrositis)

Pirprofen in treatment of non-articular rheumatism in Pakistani outpatients, a multicentre study.

This study was conducted by 50 leading family physicians and consultants scattered throughout Pakistan to evaluate efficacy and tolerability of Pirprofen in non-articular rheumatism in Asian populations. A total of 199 subjects suffering from soft tissue rheumatism completed 2 weeks therapy. Evaluation of patient’s condition was made on days 0, 7 and 14, seven target symptoms and signs were eva...

Rheumatism

IT is natural that a (lisease of the social and econiomic importance of rheumatism should ocCIpy a considerable place in medical literature. Nevertheless, until the last few nears, little of importanice has been adide(d to ourikniowle(dge of this crippling group of dliseases. Significant advances in treatmenit, a closer stu(dy of the composition of synovial fluii(d and(l of the factors wvhich i...

Rheumatism