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Moderator note: This post and several subsequent posts have been moved from this thread. Posts requesting the move have been deleted. CPD Chronic Fatigue Syndrome 21 August @ 09:00 - 16:30 The University of Bolton now offers a variety of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) events in...

Agenda: Safeguarding children with CFS, Pervasive refusal syndrome, Gathering evidence – the police experience

Central sensitization: a matter of concern In 1981 Wilbert E. Fordyce challenged conventional wisdom. In one of the most influential findings in modern pain research, he reported a negative relationship between exercise and pain [1]. A subsequent study by Steven Linton confirmed these results...

https://spoonseeker.com/2018/07/29/probing-the-holes-in-mus/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29956418 http://sci-hub.tw/https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/nmo.13394

I've been asked to give a presentation in my professional capacity as a Counselling Psychologist on Saturday 23rd June in Manchester to trainee Counselling Psychologists - 'A critical approach to Medically Unexplained Symptoms’ It's been grim reading over this stuff... However, it'll be good to...

https://spoonseeker.com/2018/06/20/a-morass-of-mus/

The Royal Australasian College of Physicians Annual Congress was held in May in Sydney https://www.racp.edu.au/fellows/resources/congress-presentations-2018 There was a Tuesday session on 'Medically Unexplained Symptoms - Is it all in your head?' with four speakers. Professor Lorimer Mosely -...

Annual Conference & Workshops 2018 Strathclyde University, Glasgow 17th - 20th July 2018 http://babcpconference.com/ A process of change: integrating physical and mental health into IAPT Chair: Trudie Chalder, King’s College London Speakers: Jo Hudson, King’s College London Georgina Miles...

While I may agree that unproven symptoms count as syndromes or illnesses, rather than specific diseases, the number of assumptions and false ideas in this article is appalling: Link: https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/patient-zero/201805/chronic-pain-is-not-disease Firstly, brain changes...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29697324 (Not available on SH)

Lenny: When Doctors Dismiss Women's pain by Maya Dusenbery Many conditions that disproportionately affect women — including endometriosis, fibromyalgia, vulvodynia, interstitial cystitis, and chronic fatigue syndrome — are still very poorly understood, yet receive minuscule amounts of research...

I haven't looked at this yet. @Tom Kindlon posted it on twitter with the observation that it looks annoying... http://jah.journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/jah/index.php/jah/article/view/174 Link to pdf of full text, http://jah.journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/jah/index.php/jah/article/view/174/pdf

The IAPT-LTC pathway full implementation guidance was recently published (see below) to support national roll-out of 'IAPT-LTC' (which encompasses MUS). As IAPT-employment adviser cross-referral may be of increasing relevance (due to roll out of IAPT-LTC and inclusion of CFS under MUS in the...

http://www.meresearch.org.uk/news/forward-me-group-bodily-stress-syndrome/ The briefing paper is also available as a PDF here, http://forward-me.org.uk/Reports/BODILY STRESS SYNDROME INFO SHEET.pdf

Monica Greco seems to do lots of uninteresting thoughtless work with long words on MUS. It's possibly worth reading her work to see how some people think about these things? I don't know how I ended up being linked to this piece, but I thought that this paragraph was of interest, especially the...

It starts at 1h05. The first patient talking was in fact suffering from depression, and got better with antidepressants and CBT. I think this is the very type of cases that makes doctors think MUS is a thing, when it's all about undiagnosed textbook depression...

Medicine Has A Sexism Problem, And It’s Making Sick Women Sicker https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-dusenbery-medical-sexism-research_us_5a9e01c4e4b0a0ba4ad72a3c?v7 This article published on HuffPost today provides an excellent overview of the MUS concept as applied to illnesses that...

I was just posting thoughts in another thread about illnesses banding together to get things done. It's clear BPS people have been deliberately using their significant PR arms and networking to pepper the world with the MUS fantasy. We need to nip this in the bud before it gains any more...

Occupational Aspects of the Management of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: a National Guideline Oct 2006 "Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a medically unexplained illness characterised by severe, disabling fatigue and other symptoms. Although there is a large body of research into CFS and its...