shak8
Senior Member (Voting Rights)
Here's a relevant FM pain science article for you @Friendswithme.
You see, pain may have a dessert-like topping (the CBT, brain retraining---all candy frosting but irrelevant to causation and ultimately prevention or cure), The real deal is that FM pain has a physical origin, ie the symptoms are a result of this physical origin, and one can talk of brain memory and prediction and so forth, but that is icing on the cake. We pain patients know all about treating pain with non-pharm and pharm methods, as well as distraction and having pleasant uplifting experience---all of these are key.
But the real deal is that pain is caused by processes that are physical. Please read the following:
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You see, pain may have a dessert-like topping (the CBT, brain retraining---all candy frosting but irrelevant to causation and ultimately prevention or cure), The real deal is that FM pain has a physical origin, ie the symptoms are a result of this physical origin, and one can talk of brain memory and prediction and so forth, but that is icing on the cake. We pain patients know all about treating pain with non-pharm and pharm methods, as well as distraction and having pleasant uplifting experience---all of these are key.
But the real deal is that pain is caused by processes that are physical. Please read the following:

Evidence for spinal disinhibition as a pain-generating... : PAIN Reports
arker of spinal disinhibition is impaired H-reflex rate-dependent depression (HRDD). Objectives: This study investigated whether patients with FMS exhibit evidence of spinal disinhibition. Methods: Thirty-one individuals with FMS and 20 healthy volunteers underwent testing of Hoffman reflex...
