A4 #CanadianPainLIVE  #NPAW2024  I can only answer to how it has already affected stigma. It has absolutely caused a huge spike in medical gaslighting. It’s caused women to be told their physical illnesses are due to Psych issues. Childhood trauma is being blamed from the start instead of looking for an actual cause before giving the diagnosis of nociplastic pain. Here is an example. Dr. Anna Lembke said “if you have chronic pain, don’t see a doctor, see a spiritual advisor” Thanks to this concept, basically all chronic pain has been put in this box. All of a sudden it has become acceptable to mock, berate, gaslight, and dismiss patients. It’s actually caused the term chronic pain to be weaponized against both patients and doctors. Expert witness, Tim King, has used this concept from the stand to say a doctor should never have given opioids to a woman with chronic pain because she was sexually abused as a child. This all goes back to the weaponization of this concept of nociplastic pain.
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