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Not happy, Fred. :grumpy:

:D

The usual place they pull these concepts and labels from.

Not least of which is that there is a healthy normal profile and any deviation from it is pathological, and the more deviant the more pathological, and the more urgent and forceful the 'correction' required. But without deviation from the statistical normal there is no raw material for...

Interesting how the BPS school dismiss any suggestion that there is any such thing as a purely biological condition (or it is vanishingly rare), and insist that all medical conditions involve a psychosocial component. While also insisting there is such thing as a purely psychosocial condition...

Makes one wonder why they bother with all the trouble and heartache of doing clinical studies. Unless they just regard them as marketing exercises.

Yes, their primary tactic now is to just repeatedly assert FND/MUS as fact. No correspondence shall be entered into.

Don't you just love the certainty. Maybe because there is no practical management approach to a made up condition?

Inflating a known and non-therapeutic methodological bias is not a legitimate therapy.

FMD patients reported more often sexual abuse than dystonia (28,6% vs 4.8%; p = .13) and Parkinson patients (23.3% vs 0.0%; p = .02). As determined by prospective or retrospective studies?

According to Wikipedia the Delta variant seems to be around 50-60% more transmissible than the Alpha variant. Which is not good. However, it also seems to be less fatal, and a double dose of either Pfizer or AZ vaccines are over 90% effective at preventing hospitalisation.

In fairness, it is because we don't want it to turn into the UK and USA, which it easily could seeing as our outbreak is the Delta variant.

Either 1. There is no (primary) physiological pathology and hence no biomarkers. It's psycho-behavioural all the way down. 2. There is a (primary) physiological pathology but we are not looking in the right place and right way. Option 2 can be further broken down into four possibilities, the...

New term for me. I like it. I feel a song coming on. In two, on the upbeat... We love cherry picking hypothesis stacking and p-hacking all day. We get lots of cheers and famous careers and plenty of medals and pay. Our every word is clearly heard in journals grand and profound. Just ignore...

Snap!

Or the whole notion of functional somatic syndrome is just irrelevant acausal psycho-obfuscation retarding our attempt to understand what is actually happening here. Or are they arguing that FSS causes hypermobility?

Horseshit. If the entire measurable benefit of their therapy is a modest and temporary shift in questionnaire scoring behaviour, then they got nothing, and they know it. There must be broader tangible sustainable real-world benefits, like increased physical, cognitive, social, and economic...