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The Psychosocial Disease? – Has Fibromyalgia Been Captured by a Mind/Body Paradigm?

Dolphin

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From Cort Johnson:


The Psychosocial Disease? – Has Fibromyalgia Been Captured by a Mind/Body Paradigm?

Behavioral and mind/body studies have pervaded fibromyalgia research for quite some time. A recent apparent uptick in these studies prompted a survey to determine how much of a second fiddle biological research is playing to behavioral research in FM right now.

A further inquiry suggested that large differences between the ME/CFS and FM communities could explain why one community is feeling more hopeful than the other right now.

https://goo.gl/7VxHFF
i.e.
http://www.healthrising.org/blog/2016/09/30/fibromyalgia-captured-behavioral-paradigm/