Ashok Gupta is citing this study as 'proof' that his programme is a cure for ME/CFS. Given that he is now actively targeting Covid LongHaulers, I...
Abstract Background Fibromyalgia (FM) is a contested, chronic widespread pain syndrome on which recommended therapies have short-lasting, moderate...
" Abstract Background The PHQ-9 is a self-administered depression screening instrument. Little is known about its utility and accuracy in...
Full title: What Does CATS Have to Do With Cancer? The Cognitive Activation Theory of Stress (CATS) Forms the SURGE Model of Chronic Post-surgical...
The Emotionally Disturbed Child as a Family Scapegoat Ezra F. Vogel and Norman W. Bell The phenomenon of scapegoating is as old as human...
Highlights • Guided graded exercise self-help (GES) can lead to sustained improvement in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome. • There was no...
Central sensitisation in chronic pain conditions: latest discoveries and their potential for precision medicine Authors include Nijs and Clauw....
Abstract Objective Functional dystonia (FD) is a disabling and diagnostically challenging functional movement disorder (FMD). We sought to...
Abstract Medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) are persistent bodily symptoms without known pathology. An unofficial term has recently emerged in...
In a new blog series, we will investigate how illnesses were once thought to result from stress, psychological disturbance, or deviant personality...
Full title: Persistent Suffering: The Serious Consequences of Sexual Violence against Women and Girls, Their Search for Inner Healing and the...
Functional neurologic disorders (FNDs), also called conversion disorder (previously called hysteria), can show almost all the symptoms of other...
Objectives Mindfulness-based approaches are increasingly recommended in the management of medical conditions associated with sensory loss and...
This thread has been split from a thread discussing a book about Ron Davis: The Puzzle Solver by Tracie White I've been following ME/CFS...
They talk, in the abstract, about chronic fatigue only, but the patients they discuss have gone through a "CFS/ME" assessment, so may or may not...
My Doctor Told Me My Pain Was All in My Head. It Ended Up Saving Me....
Normal baseline investigation results in a patient with common symptoms is often labelled as being due to a functional disorder, with all the...
Just came across this and had to share this with you all. Very old, but still, my eyes popped at the patient descriptions. Not to mention the...
"The chronic fatigue syndrome: source of controversy." van der Meer et al. "prognostic factors (recovery is limited when symptom are attributed...
The Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health defines ME/CFS officially as a “functional disorder” and the University Hospital of Helsinki...
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