Canadian views on Fm by Fbro Aware magazine

[Guest guest]

Canadian FM Attitudes

Friday, June 20, 2008

FMOnline, vol. 8, no. 6

A recent survey in BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine asked

nearly 400 Canadian chiropractic, naturopathic, and physical and

occupational therapy students in their final year of study about the

diagnosis and management of fibromyalgia. Nearly 340 students

completed the survey, which found that 28 percent of respondents

believed FM to be a psychological disease; almost as many—23 percent—

believed it to be physiological, and more than a third (34 percent)

were unsure. Chiropractic students were most likely to endorse a

psychological etiology of the disease