An apology to the Australasian Faculty of Musculoskeletal Medicine
Some months ago I wrote a blog post about fibromyalgia, and mentioned that a group of clinicians seem to believe that psychosocial issues are not important when nociception can be abolished. A commentator took issue with my comment, and I very quickly amended the post. You can read the amended version here.
I also offered an invitation to the people who were offended by my statement that : if you’re able to demonstrate HOW you integrate biopsychosocial approaches in your practice, I’ll publish it.
Today, however, I found out that the AFMM has written to the University and wishes me to be censured, and that I should apologise for that blog post.
I wrote that post pointing the finger at a specific group of clinicians, and I apologise for causing them offence. I sincerely do not want to point the finger at any clinician who integrates biopsychosocial aspects of pain and pain management into their practice.
As I stated in my amendment to that post, it’s simplistic to suggest a single discipline is at fault, but any profession that does not address the person as a whole (person-in-context) and particularly the psychosocial factors (because they’re so strongly associated with longterm disability associated with pain), needs to take a good look at the broad pain literature.
The AFMM is aware that the post was immediately amended. The invitation to publish a post showing how the psychosocial factors are addressed by this group of clinicians remains op...
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