Papers of the Week

The leading school of thought views fibromyalgia as a central sensitization syndrome. Nociplastic pain is the recently proposed term to mechanistically explain central sensitization. Accumulating research suggests an alternate explanation; fibromyalgia can be conceptualized as a neuropathic pain syndrome and dorsal root ganglia (not the brain) as the primary fibromyalgia pain source. There is no need to propose nociplastic pain as new chronic pain mechanism.