The title of a recent article from Reuters Health caught my eye – “Kids outgrow growing pains: study.” Since I frequently hear from adults diagnosed with fibromyalgia who say they had growing pains as children, I was anxious to learn more about this study.
As I looked further into the details of the study, published in The Journal of Pediatrics, several things disturbed me.
- The article reported that “most youngsters” outgrow growing pains. In fact, of 35 children studied, 18...

