This is the crux of it. You can't. The point is that FND is NOT a disease category. It is a category that someone can fall under at one time and...
It may be relevant that the MEA has signed up to the new organisation for Long Covid care providers under physical medicine and rehabilitation.
But it is more subtle. 'Conditions' brings in the conflation again. ME/CFS is a clinical picture not explained by processes known to cause other...
Correct. And that underlines the conflation we constantly make between mechanistic disease concepts, syndromal disease concepts and 'disease'...
No, you can't get away with that. They said that these people were known to have FND. It had been proved that they had an illness with...
Well, for seizures, most standard grand mal epileptic seizures are idiopathic. So the FND ones couldn't be called idiopathic seizures.
These patients had 'mostly sleep disorders'. Goodness knows whether anyone outside the Czech Republic would diagnose them as FND. And if there...
No doubt he still thinks the same. But physicians of all stripes find it useful to use 'functional' to mean all shades of things. And of course if...
I don't think it is as simple as that. The 'functional' term was introduced widely in medicine to cover problems without an identifiable...
I think there is a significant difference. 'Conversion disorder' explicitly describes an illness in which your leg gives way because you cannot...
"The information gained from this project and the toolkit will provide the essential bedrock for any effective change to clinical practice and...
I agree in principle and do not underestimate the harms. The only problem is that there is no 'zero' harmless option available to the community...
It's Mr Bloggs in fact and I know him well and he is very happy.
Well, imaging findings may have changed in recent years but this is talk of meta-analysis, suggesting that these findings aren't actually any use...
A Hoover's sign in isolation would mean nothing. It is rarely used, except in cases where other signs do not point consistently to a clear...
Probably right but I would be careful about using oligoclonal bands as an endpoint in the shorter term (less than a year). The kinetics of...
Good programme. Well done Chris and the lady with ME.
If that's 18,000 data points it is very encouraging. I doubt the difference from 20,000 is going to be statistically critical. It is also quite...
I have at no point denied that David. I have no argument with you on that. I have been pointing out that if some, maybe just a minority, of...
The bird of course. It sings: Chiff chaff chiff chaff chiff chaff chiff chiff chaff (just to catch you out at the end). The Iberian chiffchaff on...
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