Behavioral therapy may ease kids' fibromyalgia

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Teaching teens coping skills to deal with the chronic pain of fibromyalgia may provide them some relief, a small study suggests. When researchers divided 114 teenagers with the condition into two groups -- one that received behavioral therapy for six months and one that just got information about the condition -- the behavioral therapy group emerged with much lower levels of disability at the end of the study. "This is the first major breakthrough in understanding how best to treat fibromyalgia in teenagers," said study co-author Dr. ...
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