Person-centered versus body-centered approaches in osteopathic care for chronic pain conditions

摘要

We read with great interest the recently published study by Coste et al.1 The authors reported no benefit of osteopathic treatment in a sample of patients with fibromyalgia (FM) and, therefore, concluded that its use was not recommended.1 We argue that their findings were expected given their lack of rationale for evaluating the benefits of a single therapeutic approach in the care of individuals with this chronic pain syndrome.