“…Interdisciplinary approaches to FM also show favorable outcomes. For example, an interdisciplinary treatment protocol for FM, that included education, support groups, stress reduction and cognitive therapy, antidepressants, trigger point injections, and aerobic conditioning reported significant improvements in functional impairment, quality of life, pain analog scores, number of tender points, total myalgic score, attitude index and behavior, and depression and anxiety scores (Maurizo & Rogers, 1997). As in CFS, a case has been made for individualizing treatment in FM in accordance with (functional and psychosocial) subgroup membership (Turk, Okifuji, Sinclair, & Starz, 1998).…”