Abstract Patients with hypermobile Ehlers–Danlos syndrome, an hereditary disorder of the
connective tissue, often face a long and difficult diagnostic odyssey in pursuit of a name for …

Background This study evaluated the efficacy of the PASSAGE Program, a structured
multicomponent interdisciplinary group intervention for the self-management of FMS …

In the US, medical training is inadequate regarding the symptomatology, prognosis, and
treatment for myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). As a …

In recent decades, women's use of contraception has evolved. Women not only utilize
contraceptives to prevent pregnancy, but also to manage menstruation and other factors …

Purpose: Findings from a study examining how women with fibromyalgia remain employed
are used to explicate a conceptualization that adds to literature on workplace disclosure of …

Background Advice on fibromyalgia, a chronic illness primarily affecting women, often
presents it as incompatible with work and rarely covers how to remain employed. Yet many …

Treating chronic pain is a complex challenge. While textbooks and medical education
classically categorize pain as originating from peripheral (nociceptive), neuropathic, or …

Medicalization is the process by which conditions, experiences, and situations, which were
at one time not seen as medical in nature, come under medical jurisdiction for treatment …

What does it mean to be disabled? To answer this question, this dissertation uses Martin
Heidegger's concept of the 'ontological difference', the difference between human existence …

Remaining employed with fibromyalgia can be difficult in the increasingly precarious work
world, where employees are expected to be healthy and able to consistently meet their job …