Complex widespread pain

Essential readings:

Cohen, M, Quintner, J, Buchanan, D, Nielsen, A, Guy, L. 2011. ‘Stigmatization of patients with chronic pain: the “dark side” of empathy’. Pain medicine 12 (11): 1637–43. EZ

Lyon, P, Cohen, ML, Quintner, JL. 2008. ‘An evolutionary stress-response hypothesis for chronic widespread pain (Fibromyalgia Syndrome)’. Pain medicine 12 (8): 1167–78. EZ

Quintner, JL, Cohen, ML, Buchanan D, Katz, J, Williamson, OW. 2008. ‘Pain medicine and its models: Helping or Hindering?’. Pain medicine 9 (7): 824–34. EZ

Wessely, S, Nimnuan, C, Sharpe, M. 1999. ‘Functional somatic syndromes: one or many?’. The Lancet 354 (9182): 936 -939. DD

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