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Online Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Can Be Effective Fibromyalgia Treatment

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Online Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Can Be Effective Fibromyalgia Treatment
Cognitive behaviour therapy may offer those suffering fibromyalgia's bewildering number of painful and debilitating symptoms some relief. fizkes/Shutterstock
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Researchers at Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet have developed an online cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for pain symptoms connected with fibromyalgia.

Maria Hedman-Lagerlof, a doctoral student at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet and colleagues found that patients who receive CBT experience fewer symptoms and enjoy a better quality of life.

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