What is chronic pain?

Chronic or persistent pain is pain that carries on for longer than 12 weeks despite medication or treatment, and can often persist for months or longe…

Can fibromyalgia stop you working?

Fibromyalgia is a widespread musculoskeletal pain and fatigue disorder. Muscles often feel as if they have been pulled or worked too hard and cognitiv…

Can you sue for fibromyalgia?

Fibromyalgia affects more than a million people in the UK and is most commonly caused, or exacerbated by, physical traumas, such as car accidents and …

Is fibromyalgia considered a disability?

Fibromyalgia is a real and disabling condition, and not just something that is “all in the mind”. Fortunately the days are long gone when GPs told pat…

Fibromyalgia and Weight Gain

By Brian Barr Solicitors For those diagnosed with fibromyalgia, the struggle at times may seem relentless. Lifestyle remedies can help relieve the …

How to manage fibromyalgia at work

Brian Barr Solicitors have shared their recent blog post about self-managing fibromyalgia pain and controlling daily stress. Fibromyalgia, which is…

Has your simple injury become chronic?

Most people get back to normal after pain following an accident. However sometimes the pain carries on for longer, and can unfortunately be life chang…

Fibromyalgia and the relationship with mental health

Although characterised by widespread pain and other physical symptoms like headaches, tender point pain, irritable bowel syndrome and fatigue, sadly f…

Open Water Swimming

Brian Barr Solicitors have shared their recent blog post about the benefits of open water swimming as an activity reputed to bring…