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	Fibromyalgia and the Disability Dilemma
		Most FM patients report that chronic pain and fatigue adversely affect the quality of their life and negatively impact their ability to be competitively employed (8-10).
		They reported that FM patients, characterized by low pain thresholds, had a decreased regional cerebral flow compared to healthy controls The decreased perfusion was particularly prominent in the thalamic and caudate nuclei (structures involved in the processing of nociceptive stimuli).
		Though FM patients do need to "get on with their lives", such flip advice is not a constructive substitute for management advice based on a careful analysis of each patients dysfunctional profile.
	fmaware.org /patient/disability/bennett.htm (4512 words)

	Yenra Glossary F (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		FM blanketing - That form of interference to the reception of other broadcast stations, which is caused by the presence of an FM broadcast signal in the area adjacent to the antenna of the transmitting station.
		FM improvement factor - The quotient obtained by dividing the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at the output of an FM receiver by the carrier-to-noise ratio (CNR) at the input of the receiver.
		FM improvement threshold - The point in an FM receiver at which the peaks in the rf signal equal the peaks of the thermal noise generated in the receiver.
	www.yenra.net /glossary/f.html (7774 words)

	Fibromyalgia
		Rather than thinking of FM as a disease caused by a specific agent, such as strep throat, it is probably more accurate to say that it is a disorder of pain regulation by the central nervous system.
		Although disordered sleep and depression are commonly observed in FM and probably contribute to the symptoms in many cases, it is unlikely that either is the central mechanism by which FM comes about.
		Although individuals with FM related to injuries have been said to have higher levels of pain than other FM sufferers, it does not appear that settling legal claims or receiving monetary rewards has any effect on the course of the condition.
	www.lupusmn.org /Education/Articles/Fibromyalgia.htm (1747 words)

	Noise control system for FM radio - Patent 4390749
		The present invention comprises an improvement over prior noise suppression systems in FM stereo radio receivers by providing means for controlling the signal/noise ratio of the audio output in response to the presence of relatively high noise levels and substantially independent of the broadcast signal strength.
		The FM detector also supplies a dc control voltage proportional to the strength of the broadcast radio signal to the channel separation and/or frequency response adjustment circuitry to control or reduce separation and/or high frequency response of the audio output when signal strength is low, and maintain signal/noise ratio at an acceptable level.
		In FM stereo radio receivers of the type illustrated, it is known that multiplexing of the composite audio signal results in a reduction in the signal/noise ratio of the stereo audio output at the speakers 28 and 30.
	www.freepatentsonline.com /4390749.html (4463 words)

	Journal of Negative Results in BioMedicine \| Full text \| Prospective Epidemiological Observations on the Course of the ...
		To what extent a population of patients with FM would show similar outcomes if they did not receive any instruction/education about their disorder, cannot be ascertained from the present study; and, indeed, the undertaking of a study to investigate this would be ethically questionable.
		Fibromyalgia (FM), or FM syndrome, is a non-articular rheumatic disease with a prevalence of 1–3% [2-4].
		FM is clearly a problem that deserves more intensive scientific investigation, in relation to both its epidemiology and its socio-medical and economic consequences.
	www.jnrbm.com /content/2/1/4 (2138 words)

	What Is Fibromyalgia
		FM is not physically crippling nor does it interfere with a person's expected life span.
		FM also occurs in all other age groups as well as in men, and it exists in all races worldwide.
		Persons with FM are also prone to a largely asymptomatic heart condition known as mitral valve prolapse (MVP) in which one of the valves of the heart bulges during a heartbeat causing a click or murmur.
	www.fmpartnership.org /Monog01.htm (6621 words)

	Re: Your article on Recuperation - response from Alfred Blasi
		Thresholds for pain evoked by electrical stimulation at the skin were not significantly different in the 2 groups.
		The pain threshold to repeated intramuscular stimulation was significantly (p = 0.02) lower for the patients with FM compared to the control group, indicating that the temporal nociceptive summation was more pronounced in patients with FM.
		Ongoing FM pain is referred to deep tissues and is described as widespread but usually is maximally located within a restricted region such as the shoulders.
	web.mit.edu /london/www/Blasi.htm (8975 words)

	2002 Neurololgoy and New Treatment in FM
		Improvement was noted in a number of symptoms associated with fibromyalgia and not usually associated with cervical myelopathy such as irritable bowel syndrome (p=0.003) and impaired memory (p=0.0007), impaired concentration (p=0.03) and disorientation (p=0.002).
		Patients in the surgical group were more likely to report and improvement in fatigue, depression, insomnia, limb paresthesiae, clumsiness and cold intolerance than were patients in the non-surgical group but the differences were not statistically significant.
		FM is a clinical syndrome characterized by chronic widespread pain and commonly associated with autonomic dysfunction.
	www.nfra.net /NeuroTreat.htm (7745 words)

	Why AM? - Page 2 - The RadioReference.com Forums
		The improvement in S/N ratio for FM in dB over a 100% modulated AM signal can be calculated using the formula dB = 10Log 3m^2, where m is the modulation index of the FM signal.
		In an FM broadcast system where the modulation index is 5, the gain is 18.75 dB!.
		FM has multiple sidebands and all of them need to be detectable in order to have the gain in S/N ratio.
	www.radioreference.com /forums/showthread.php?p=383785#post383785 (1889 words)

	Phase lock evoked response audiometer - Patent 6406439
		The diagnosis of deafness at an early stage in paediatrics is important to enable the early fitting of hearing aids and/or cochlear implants in order to assist language development in a hearing-impaired child.
		Research has indicated that the combined modulation of the auditory stimulus enables significant improvements in the detection of the evoked potentials whereby evoked potentials of amplitude large enough for detection will be produced by auditory stimuli of lower sound level, and hence lower subjective loudness.
		FM is produced by modulating a pure tone whose frequency is varied in a sinusoidal manner by a sine wave at the modulation frequency.
	www.freepatentsonline.com /6406439.html (3185 words)

	2001 Seattle: Summary of Presentations, by Rosamund Vallings, MB BS - The International Association for Chronic Fatigue ...
		P de Becker (Brussels) compared CFS patients fitting the Holmes and Fukuda definitions for CFS, and found that those fitting the Fukuda criteria were the less severely affected patients, which leads to an increase in clinical heterogeneity.
		FM does not respond to prednisone, so benefit from this may indicate a condition such as polymyalgia.
		Myo-encephalopathy did fit the bill, but obviously any decision for name change needs to be international and taken with great care to avoid need for further change, which eventually only confuses the issue further and does not work in patients’ best interests.
	www.aacfs.org /p/158,422.html (9056 words)

	BF981 Mosfet tunable RF preamplifier
		Receivers and tuners have a sensitivity threshold, which is the amount of RF input signal required to cause the receiver to produce something watchable or listenable.
		The sensitivity threshold is established by a number of factors of which the most important is the internal noise figure of the tuner.
		(1) The FM receiver/tuner you are using is old, has a high noise figure, needs realignment, or should be trashed, or (2) you live in a quiet rural area with few local stations and have a receiver connected to a MosFET or GaAsFET preamplifier.
	www.geocities.com /toddemslie/bf981_preamp.html (4135 words)

	An FM Pharmacy Treatment Update for Pharmacists, Patients, & Physicians
		This FM research update, reproduced with permission of U.S. Pharmacist, was developed to help pharmacists counsel FM patients and their physicians about treatment options - and âto recognize patients with FMS-like symptoms who are self-treatingâ and may need medical treatment.
		FMS affects about 2% to 3% of the general population and more than 5% of patients in general medical practice.
		Coexisting connective tissue diseases, psychiatric illnesses, sleep disorders, and chronic infections complicate the assessment and diagnosis of FMS because of the similarities in symptoms.
	www.immunesupport.com /library/showarticle.cfm/ID/7515 (3621 words)

	transmissionII: airborne
		The FM improvement factor is the quotient obtained by dividing the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at the output of an FM receiver by the carrier-to-noise ratio (CNR) at the input of the receiver.
		FM improvement threshold is the point in an FM (frequency modulation) receiver at which the peaks in the RF signal equal the peaks of the thermal noise generated in the receiver.
		Frequency modulation (FM) is a method of impressing data onto an alternating-current (AC) wave by varying the instantaneous frequency of the wave.
	www.newmuseum.org /airborne/glossary.html (3952 words)

	Chronic Latent Tetany of Magnesium Deficiency: CFS, FM, Migraine
		A few reports of CFS and FM improvement with Mg administration support the premise that low Mg or abnormality in its utilization might be contributory to their pathogenesis.
		Echocardiograms disclosed a 75% incidence of MVP in FM (110).
		20 in ref 20), and CFS and FM (1,137,138) is migraine.
	www.mgwater.com /clmd.shtml (10083 words)

	eMedicine - Fibromyalgia : Article by John Winfield, MD
		Rather, patients with FM need their physicians and family to confirm that they are ill and that their symptoms are explained as being organically based rather than psychologically based.
		FM and major depressive disorder are similar with respect to symptomatology, lifetime prevalence of depression, patterns of comorbidity in individual patients, family history, and response to antidepressant medications.
		Using pressure algometry (dolorimetry) for a simple determination of pressure pain thresholds at 4 tender points associated with FM (ie, both lateral epicondyles, midpoints of the trapezii) may be useful both as an aid for diagnosis and as a semiquantitative guide to therapy.
	www.emedicine.com /med/topic790.htm (7770 words)

	The Analyst - Internet Health Report: Condition: Low HGH (Human Growth Hormone)
		In an analysis of IGF-1 levels in 500 female FM patients and 152 age matched non-FM subjects the mean IGF-1 level in the FM patients was 137±58 ng/ml versus 216±86 ng/ml in controls.
		Growth hormone deficiency in adults has been associated with many symptoms that are similar to those described by FM patients: low energy, poor general health, reduced exercise capacity, muscle weakness, cold intolerance, impaired cognition, dysthymia and decreased lean body mass.
		Unlike healthy controls, FM patients were unable to mount a GH response to exercise, despite reaching an anaerobic threshold (an indication of an adequate exercise workload).
	www.digitalnaturopath.com /cond/C13209.html (1882 words)

	Juvenile Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Abstracts
		Telephone interviews showed improvement in most patients, with a mean positive change of 4.8 on a self-rating scale of 1 to 10 comparing current status to worst-ever condition.
		RESULTS: A significant predominance of mothers with FM was observed in the group of children with FM (71%) compared to children with diffuse pain (30%) and asymptomatic children (0%).
		Polysomnographic anomalies were also more prominent in mothers with FM than in children with FM in terms of decrease in sleep efficiency, increase of number of arousals during sleep, and alpha intrusion in SWS.
	members.aol.com /fibroworld/juvFM1.htm (2400 words)

	Guaifenesin Protocol:Information on how to use Guaifenesin
		As FM first begins to emerge, a patient experiences painful symptoms interspersed with periods of normalcy.
		Improvement is sustained initially for only a few hours, later for days and eventually, for weeks.
		Further along in the guaifenesin treatment when you have begun to experience long periods of improvement, blocking may be easier to detect.
	www.immunesupport.com /guaifenesin-protocol.htm (1338 words)

	Does the digital radio standard come up short?
		For FM radios, however, the Carson's Rule bandwidth is used (defined as between the -20dB points) and is about 12.6kHz for a typical wideband (25kHz-spaced) analog FM radio.
		The FM detector is the receiver specified in the TIA-102 standard suite intended to receive the C4FM and CQPSK signals.
		For the 4-FSK transmitter with the FM detector (the C4FM-like model), the 5% threshold was reached at C/N = 14 dB.
	mrtmag.com /mag/radio_digital_radio_standard (2681 words)

	Noise
		In telecommunication, FM improvement factor is the quotient obtained by dividing the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at the output of an FM receiver by the carrier-to-noise ratio (CNR) at the input of the receiver.
		In telecommunication, FM improvement threshold is the point in an FM (frequency modulation) receiver at which the peaks in the RF signal equal the peaks of the thermal noise generated in the receiver.
		A baseband signal-to-noise ratio of about 30 dB is typical at the improvement threshold, and this ratio improves 1 dB for each decibel of increase in the signal above the threshold.
	www.shortopedia.com /N/O/Noise (1207 words)

	Fibromyalgia Treatment & Research Library
		The aim of this study was to estimate the point prevalence of fibromyalgia syndrome (FM) among noninstitutionalized Canadian adults; and to assess the effect of demographic variables on the odds of having FM.
		The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of connective tissue massage in the treatment of individuals with fibromyalgia.
		Experts ascertain if the symptom content and rate of symptoms in patients with fibromyalgia (FM) are similar to those in what has been called silicone implant associated syndrome (SIAS), and to determine if SIAS is indeed a new disease or whether it is largely recognizable as FM.
	www.fibromyalgiasupport.com /library/articlelist.cfm/listings/1001 (1644 words)

	Fibromyalgia: Treatment Update -- Kim Jones, PhD, RN, FNP -- 07/10/03
		As to the question, "Can people with FM think?", the answer is that approximately 70% of people with FM report cognitive difficulties.
		We send people with FM to our speech therapist who specializes in these types of cognitive tricks and find that people's quality of life improve dramatically when they have more control over their cognitive ability.
		This means that we have to be careful about her fibromyalgia medications, because some common fibromyalgia medications lower the seizure threshold and could bring on a seizure.
	www.webmd.com /content/article/71/81193.htm (2935 words)

	FREQUENCY MODULATION NETWORK RELAYS
		FM networks range from the large and extensive webs to those linking two or three stations.
		This FM network idea was excellent in concept, and still is, but with the increased interest in FM, many stations would like to program separately and yet still relay programs to their network.
		These “FM networks” allows small networks to be formed, linking stations for entertainment programs and also emergency information in case of a national or regional disaster, and without exhorbetant landlive charges that mount up even during idle periods.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/ggninfo/64.htm (1525 words)

	CFIDS
		The researchers suggested that the fact that even the depressed group failed to improve indicates chemical changes in the brain in CFS that are very dissimilar to depression.
		She has reported that CFS patients given Prozac for three months showed moderate to marked improvement in the number of natural killer cells present.
		Effexor (venlafaxine) is a serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor that mayalso increase the pain threshold.
	www.cfids.org /archives/2001rr/2001-rr3-article01.asp (1117 words)

	Full Text: Aerobic Fitness Effects in Fibromyalgia
		To compare 2 exercise modalities, aerobic fitness training and stretching exercises, in patients with fibromyalgia (FM) in relation to function, pain, quality of life, depression, and anxiety, and to correlate the cardiorespiratory fitness gain with symptom improvement.
		Seventy-six women with FM between 18 and 60 years old were randomized to either an aerobic program or stretching program, for 20 weeks.
		Patients in the stretching group showed no improvement in depression, "role emotional," and "mental health." No association was noted between improvement in aerobic fitness as measured by VT and the improvement of pain, function, or scores in FIQ and SF-36.
	www.jrheum.com /abstracts/abstracts03/1060.html (329 words)

	Frequency Modulation (FM) Systems for Children with Normal Hearing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		With a personal body-worn FM system, the speaker’s voice is picked up via an FM wireless microphone near their mouth and is converted to an electrical waveform.
		Unlike traditional body-worn FM systems, BTE FM systems have an FM receiver built into a BTE hearing aid that is coupled to the wearer via the earmold (usually an open or free-field style earmold).
		The traditional body worn FM system consisted of a Phonic Ear Easy Listener FM system that was coupled to Phonic Ear AT 606 attenuated walkman-style headphones (to ensure that the output of the FM system would not reach an intensity level that can potentially cause damage to the ear).
	www.healthyhearing.com /library/article_content.asp?article_id=160 (2020 words)

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