Emotional awareness and expression therapy may be beneficial in reducing chronic pain in the general population, according to researchers who examined its effectiveness for older veterans.
Many chronic pain conditions actually involve a combination of all three of these phenomena—nociceptive, neuropathic and nociplastic pain—which adds to the difficulty of diagnosis and treatment.
In this latest in her Pain Points series, Dr. Angela Mailis discusses the history of fibromyalgia and the significant difficulties that still come with diagnosing it today.