Back in the 1990s there was a flurry of biomedical research into FM. Dr. Robert Bennett's group in Univ. of Oregon, for example, looked at...
How would OT improve on the usual chronic pain classes I wonder. Maybe they would emphasis pacing, using joint-sparing devices. Who knows. Or...
Yes, Carmen Galvez-Sanchez of Jaen and her group focus on chronic pain. Their mixing up of cause and effect is most unhelpful. Apparently, they...
The 2016 FM diagnostic instrument (https://www.fmauk.org/files/acr2016FibroCriteria.pdf) is simple enough, and is referenced in the article by...
Not doing an MRI on a colleague, can you believe it. Beyond the pale. i think that rational thought is missing most of the time in our species,...
Forest bathing comes from the Japanese. Since they have a tradition of nude bathing with both sexes and all ages especially in hot-springs, or...
I'm trying to process my doctor visit last week out of my system. This doctor prides himself on all that he thinks he knows about FM. He verbally...
From my reading about FM (which seems more now a diagnosis separate from the term 'chronic pain' in lists in medical departments) but whatever:...
"...Fibromyalgia, whose aetiology is ultimately unknown..." Ultimately known. Really? As yet unknown.
Not that I'm qualified to assess this study, but I find it useful (me having FM and having a distinct lack of what the researchers in this MRI...
My FM guess is that the 'somato-sensory' training is the usual : focus on other parts of body not experiencing pain. Or really feel the pain in as...
Which electrical therapy--I'd like the author to come out with it.
Their music as "complementary treatment." Complementary = alternative = integrative = quackery (unless definitively proven otherwise). My n=1 as...
I haven't, couldn't access whole report. However the number of subjects measured at five years (185) were greater than the ones measured at two...
Even Mao didn't use Chinese traditional medicine because, he said, it didn't work.
Neoliberalism is an economics concept and is: shrinking government, including its responsibility for taking care of people in need. Espouses...
Got both the flu vaccine and the Pfizer hybrid yesterday. Transient feeling feverish, aching on top of FM ache, sore arm muscles. Wired. Better...
I apologize for that. I should have warned. I forget that others are affected bigtime (because I'm not, though I hated the visuals).
I was or still am a participant in the Harvard Nurses Health Study and we had a dietary intake questionnaire for several years (I questioned its...
https://www.science.org/content/article/how-sars-cov-2-battles-our-immune-system If you are interested in the virus, this is a pretty spectacular...
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