Pain and body awareness: An exploration of the bodily experience of persons suffering from fibromyalgia

Constructivist Foundations

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 339-350

  Valenzuela Moguillansky, Camila ^a  

^a University Paris Descartes   (France)

Author keywords

Body awareness; Body perception; Elicitation interview; Fibromyalgia; First person approach; Pain

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880676141     PISSN: 1782348X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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