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Two sides on the fibromyalgia coin: physical pain and social pain (invalidation)

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Although fibromyalgia (FM) has been traditionally defined by the extent of physical pain sites alongside other non-pain symptoms, recent evidence has highlighted the importance of social dimension in definition of pain perception. Social pain or invalidation, which denotes painful feeling following social conflicts or misunderstanding about illness legitimacy, is an important but ignored issue in the FM lexicon. While physical and social pain seem to be different and separate entities, we hypothesize that they are completely intertwined with indistinct borders in FM. Accumulating emergent neuroscience and behavioral evidence highlights the overlapping of physical and social pain in different painful conditions. However, this overlapping seems to reach its maximum in FM. This review sheds more light on the tight interconnectivity between physical and social pain in FM from the perspective of intuitional commonalities, clinical aspects, and shared neural pathways. The conceptualization of FM as an integrative physical-social pain paradigm will move us closer to necessitating the incorporation of social pain in future models of FM diagnosis and management.

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• Considering of social pain as one key concept is relatively mute in FM literature.

• Overlapping of physical and social pain seems to be unique in FM due to its nature.

• Acknowledging social pain in the FM lexicon could shift the paradigm of diagnosis and management of FM patients.

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Ghavidel-Parsa, B., Bidari, A. Two sides on the fibromyalgia coin: physical pain and social pain (invalidation). Clin Rheumatol 40, 841–848 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10067-020-05304-z

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