She has some liason with medical students and departments at UCSF, at least. My quip is that it's only psychologists who take on pain patients...
I'm beginning to think that psychology is just a marketing ploy. A pyramid scheme to hook up other psychologists to a 'new' trademarked form of...
https://www.zoffness.com/resources/ I was seeking some chronic pain online support group information and ran across this noted pain psychologist....
The title "...very far from all in the mind..." Is wrong. Very far seems to imply a relationship, a cause and effect. She should have written:...
Why do psychs think that people need to be led like toddlers through the CBT wicket? Isn't fatigue due to cancer something you can figure out for...
Is there really hope in trying to reason with these people? In my experience as a nurse, yes stress tended to worsen any chronic illness in the...
Upon more reflection: this mindfulness stuff and teaching about fear and anxiety's effects are incredibly naive a propos decreasing pain in...
I think the researchers tried to do something seriously with their data, but as they point out, there is the golden effect of the...
Doctors' inability to say "We don't know", governments stupid cost-cutting in the NHS, and shunting of patients to psychologists and...
As a dialysis nurse, I observed the tiny exercycles that a few patients used during dialysis (early in the treatment time). I really didn't...
It's a fathomless mystery how to get what you need in a relationship whether a doctor, a friend, a relative or neighbor. I wish a friend or...
And exactly what percentage of people diagnosed with fibromyalgia 'recover'? This article irks me in its BPS underpinning beliefs. Authors would...
Frederick Woolf, MD basically said the same thing about fibromyalgia diagnosis, that it created more problems giving patients a diagnostic label...
Maybe it relates to how pain signals mess up the pain processing parts of the brain and you get diffuse symptoms that aren't ipso facto felt as...
Personal experience with a chronic pain treatment program. If you wanted a pain med, you had to show up at the 8 weekly sessions. So generic. I...
How dare they demean cats by making such an acronym.
Thread alteration, sorry. But related to food. I was reading a book about crows just now, and got paged. Got out my frozen scrambled eggs bits...
ACT therapy, fine. Inspirational story, the fairy tales we adults need, apparently. But some 'adequate' pain relief meds are essential. You can't...
No direct evidence of aberrant muscle/tendon inputs in muscle biopsies in the maintenance of fibro pain. It is assumed that normal stimuli result...
I read most of the article. The salient point (especially seen in the literature review) is to be able to identify those patients for example who...
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