Just one more thing. On the second page of this is an instrument used to measure the degree of catastrophizing. (On the first page is the...
Mexican researchers studied this drug. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10067-017-3664-z Recent article here:...
"They should just shut up." Love that. Because I worked as a nurse and a tad in research, I tend to overlook glaring fissures in researchers'...
The researcher probably is talking to venture capitalists/big and little pharma.
Well, I don't fit that profile. A lot of studies are done at tertiary levels (hospital-based programs which attracts the most complicated...
This blog from Scienfic American is written by a Stanford psychologist who has been researching pain catastrophizing (PC). I think she is a major...
Group mindfulness for chronic pain sufferers. How did they filter out groupthink and social pressure to respond (also to please the researcher)...
Mindfulness is for pain-lite.
I finally get your points about the difficulty of diagnosing what may or may not be a discrete set of symptoms, of what is termed fibromyalgia or...
I do believe you and Dr. Wolfe are dead-wrong about there not being a fibrositis diagnosis (updated to fibromyalgia). It is a constellation of...
The problem IS that the body is not "adapting" (whatever that is). It is not self-correcting in ME nor fibromyaglia. That's the problem. Not the...
Sounds like my dog wrote this.
And Michael Hyland, et al, are at a dangerously low point in an IQ range of normal. My god, who gave this a green light? Why not invite aliens to...
As a person with moderate to severe fibro, I thank you @rvallee for your vehement rebuttals. I cannot believe this airy fairy shite. Has Paltrow...
Yes, true. And these psychologists appear to have little interest/empathy with people in pain. I know that hearing about pain is unpleasant,...
And to further catastrophize about pain catastrophizing, here is the wikipedia entryg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain_catastrophizing and...
Came across this article in Journal of Practical Pain Management...
Excited by this!
Not sure that anything definitive will come of this research, but it's worth a try. How to control variables that aren't in the treatment itself...
CBT= Could Be Tripe Do y'all have other meanings for this meaningless acronym?
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