Fibromyalgia Is Not All In The Head, It's In Skin, Paper Concludes

Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 09:30 in Health & Medicine

Fibromyalgia is a blanket term for a general painful condition that affects approximately 10 million people in the United States. Because it lacks consistent symptoms and treatments, some doctors believe an unknown number of instances are psychosomatic but a new paper in PAIN MEDICINE concludes that fibromyalgia may have a rational biological basis, located in the skin.  read more

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