A diagnosis of fibromyalgia is often made when a person experiences pain or tenderness in 11 of the 18 points diagrammed in this drawing. The location of these tender areas on the body are so consistent in people with fibromyalgia that the medical community uses them to determine diagnosis. There does not appear to be a randomness to the locations, so this raises the question: "Why these locations? Why not other areas of the body?". There must be some logic behind why the body, in its own intelligence, has selected these particular points.
Remember premise number 1: The body is designed to survive. In any process occuring in the body, the body will take the path that, under a given set of conditions, is the most beneficial for prolonging survival.
Speculation
I suspect that these points may be selected because the body, in order
to conserve ATP, may be trying to immobilize itself. The quantity of
ATP that the cell is able to manufacture, in the person with fibromyalgia,
may not be sufficient to energize important cellular processes and have
the person up and walking about or doing other activities that consume ATP.
These tender points may be the result of an attempt by the body to force
the person into inactivity to conserve energy (ATP) that is in limited supply.
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