Symptom Fluctuation in Fibromyalgia : : Environmental, Psychological and Psychobiological Influences / / Kerstin Wentz.

Fibromyalgia is a syndrome of wide spread pain that is known from all parts of the world. An aspect of the syndrome of fibromyalgia is fluctuation as in onset of pain, variation in the level of symptoms, time off from pain and recovery from pain and other symptoms. The analysis of these fluctuations...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]
©2014
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Health, Medicine and Human Development
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Physical Description:1 online resource (188 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of contents
  • Introduction
  • Section I: The developmental phase of symptoms
  • 1. Fibromyalgia seen through the life histories of the afflicted women
  • 2. Dissociative and self-loading patterns in adult life
  • 3. Psychological, psychobiological and environmental patterns during the developmental phase
  • 4. Increase in mental load: life events as triggers of generalized pain
  • Section II: Living with fibromyalgia
  • 5. The phase of living with fibromyalgia
  • 6. Variation in the level of pain
  • 7. Dissociation interferes with gaps in pain
  • Section III: Recovery from fibromyalgia
  • 8. Women’s narrations on the process of recovery from fibromyalgia
  • Section IV: Environmental, psychological and psychobiological fluctuations
  • 9. Factors influencing onset, level of symptoms, gaps in pain, recovery and maintenance
  • Section V: Acknowledgements
  • About the author / Acknowledgements
  • Index