Quick look - no mention of borreliosis or other spirochete infections. Bit weird for such a paper?
Totally - most patients I see have been managing their pain for years and frequently decades before they ever come anywhere near chronic pain...
It is quite a paragraph. Misses the point really. PNE is about education - that's it - no expectation it'll make a difference to chronic pain...
"There is a movement towards the more psychological use of recovery as being what we would term adjusting ." Spot on - there is a world of...
Brilliant response under very difficult circumstances. I am quite cynical that many BPS psycho babblers actually explain the BPS 'model' as it's...
Great points. Would you consider a letter to the editor?
It's plucked from chronic pain and fibromyalgia research and passed across as if these things are assumed by some to be the same where they are...
Top post @mango Please do post on the BMJ blog if you want to. It's great
Not much use at all as you state. Ignoring patients symptoms etc is kinda v weirdly backwards versus the main modalities of therapy. Sad really...
I've only had a brief read but that's a shocker. To blatantly state it's not "all in your head" and then present a psychological explanation for...
[ATTACH] While I'm no fan of labelling people with these types of generalised non-specific disorders I scrolled for narcissism and this picture...
I don't think what you are saying is harsh at all. I don't think the baby needs to be thrown out with the bath water either. Any form of...
Hi Chris, thanks for your post. What I think you are describing is the humanistic approach to counselling and psychotherapy which how I was...
Psychological and psychiatric get conflated unhelpfully all the time. Largely artefact of history regarding which branch of medicine took...
Excellent article - well done @Brian Hughes
It sure ain't
My comment has been posted on the blog :-) Yay
Opps :-)
Hello, I thought about not commenting as I too felt disquieted like others. However, the more I thought about it the more I felt I wanted to get...
"and signs consistent with voluntary immobilization, including skin changes, edema and trophic changes." Really? Voluntary? Taking the piss
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