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As increasingly pw ME/CFS are being referred through IAPT for treatment as MUS I thought I'd set up a separate thread from the ME/CFS Services in UK. " Medically Unexplained Symptoms: Primary Care Intervention University of Sheffield Subject Experts Professor Peter White is Professor of...

(Not sure exactly what these are, but results are due I think?) PRINCE Primary: Integrated GP Care for Persistent Physical Symptoms - a Feasibility & Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial (PRINCE Primary) Sponsor: King's College London Collaborator: South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust...

https://spoonseeker.com/2019/01/30/going-back-in-time/

This isn't of huge interest, but I thought I'd post up for newer members who might be interested in reading a short summary from Sharpe. I find it kind of amazing to see how confidently they asserted their views on the basis of such flimsy evidence. They talk of providing 'positive...

Open access at https://www.dovepress.com/a-predictive-algorithm-to-identify-genes-that-discriminate-individuals-peer-reviewed-fulltext-article-JPR

Free full text: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41285-018-00082-w Social Theory & Health pp 1–17 | Cite as Socially constructed and structurally conditioned conflicts in territories of medical uncertainty

"The Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Pathway for People with Long-term Physical Health Conditions and Medically Unexplained Symptoms. Full implementation guidance"...

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00613/full Highlighted in this post by @Roy S ,https://s4me.info/threads/me-cfs-and-the-biopsychosocial-model-a-review-of-patient-harm-and-distress-in-the-medical-encounter-geraghty-et-al-2018.4707/page-5#post-123442 Keith Geraghty says...

Event in October this year: " Event Details The words ‘Integrated Care’ currently feature in every health briefing, newsletter and policy document, but what exactly does it mean and what does it look like in practice? For people with Persistent Physical Symptoms as a result of a long term...

Chris Burton, who is on the NICE panel reviewing the ME/CFS guidelines, is behind this study apparently. Note that an earlier version used the term chronic fatigue syndrome instead of chronic fatigue. http://www.isrctn.com/editorial/retrieveFile/6b3d6b51-92b3-4825-89a8-9060bf0da471/35773...

Sorry if this has already been posted somewhere already. (I searched and couldn't find anything). I haven't had time to study the full article in much detail, but I thought it might be worth looking at -the results in particular. Full text here, plus doi (If any one needs it.)

A European Research Agenda for Somatic Symptom Disorders, Bodily Distress Disorders, and Functional Disorders: Results of an Estimate-Talk-Estimate Delphi Expert Study May 2018 van der Feltz-Cornelis CM., Elfeddali I., Werneke U., Malt UF., Bergh OVD., Schaefert R., Kop WJ., Lobo A., Sharpe...

Open access at https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0205278

https://bjgp.org/content/68/674/442 Don't have the access to full text, but I don't know if I want to. My blood is already boiling. This part is interesting: How can it be justified? How bent are these people writing this nonsense?

Here: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/women-need-the-playing-field-levelled-on-health-outcomes-vgg0fv0zk When women do seek out help, they are frequently disbelieved. My favourite diagnosis is something called “Medically Unexplained Symptoms” (Mus). This is a catch-all phrase for things...

Really just adding this to the calendar: Topic: ‘Medically unexplained symptoms’: my clinical and research journey over 30 years 13th March 2019 Visiting speaker: Prof Trudie Chalder (King’s College London) Chair: Prof Patrick Luyten Location: G12, 1-19 Torrington Place...

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/