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What Can Insight-Oriented Therapeutic Dance Education Do for Fibromyalgia?



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Riitta Parvia

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DOI:10.17265/2161-623X/2026.07.009

Independent Scholar, Finland

Insight-Oriented Therapeutic Dance Education is suggested as an aid for managing fibomyalgia. Fibromyalgia is a rheumatic disease, a chronic muscular pain syndrome. This syndrome consists of symptoms such as muscular pains and neural aches, tiredness, sleep problems, depression, anxiety, hopelessness and problems for daily functioning. Women’s hormonal problems may have their part to play in the syndrome. The diagnostic criteria are simple: one has to have pains at least in eleven of eighteen trigger points in all four quarters of the body, left and right side, upper and lower body. There are many reasons for muscular and neural pains. What characterises many fibromyalgic patients is the often-found hyper mobility of joints while muscles are tensed, and painful. The patient suffers of energy crisis, has difficulty of finding treatment or medication that helps, she feels her situation hopeless. The paper discusses ways of using insight-oriented terapeutic education to manage the syndrome.

chronic pain, treatment and training, insight-oriented method

Riitta Parvia. (2026). What Can Insight-Oriented Therapeutic Dance Education Do for Fibromyalgia?. US-China Education Review A, July 2026, Vol. 16, No. 7, 520-522.