Light therapy led to improved pain, function in fibromyalgia

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The use of morning light treatment in patients with fibromyalgia helped stabilize their sleep and led to improvements in pain and physical function, Helen J. Burgess, PhD, said at the SLEEP 2022 meeting.
“Fibromyalgia is a chronic, widespread pain condition associated with mood and sleep disorders, fatigue, cognitive function, high distress, disability, lost productivity and poor quality of life and affects more than 20 million Americans,” Burgess, co-director of the Sleep and Circadian Research Laboratory and professor of psychiatry at the University of

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The use of morning light treatment in patients with fibromyalgia helped stabilize their sleep and led to improvements in pain and physical function, Helen J. Burgess, PhD, said at the SLEEP 2022 meeting.
“Fibromyalgia is a chronic, widespread pain condition associated with mood and sleep disorders, fatigue, cognitive function, high distress, disability, lost productivity and poor quality of life and affects more than 20 million Americans,” Burgess, co-director of the Sleep and Circadian Research Laboratory and professor of psychiatry at the University of