psychosomatic medicine

I’ve been reading this 2013 study by Friedberg et al. Chronic fatigue self-management in primary care: a randomized trial. This isn’t a study of ME/CFS, but the paper claims that 39% of the 111 randomized participants did meet diagnostic criteria for CFS (Fukuda-criteria). I don’t think the...

(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...

Open access at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/capr.12141 Posting this as it has been highlighted in the comments of Spoonseeker's latest blog that the concept expressed in this review is to be used to 'lower the bar' that NICE uses to assess treatments by, and therefore "to...

https://spoonseeker.com/2019/01/21/coming-down-the-line/

Oxford Textbook of medicine (published 2010 but updated 2018): Chronic fatigue syndrome (postviral fatigue syndrome, neurasthenia, and myalgic encephalomyelitis) Chapter: Chronic fatigue syndrome (postviral fatigue syndrome, neurasthenia, and myalgic encephalomyelitis) Author(s): Michael...

I'm still skeptical. It sounds like he is encouraging patients to hide their symptoms and behave more normally, and even a temporary change in that direction is taken as evidence that a mysterious mind-body illness was successfully treated. This is also not innovative. It's the same old...

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/12/21/health/medical-uncertainty-diagnosis-afm/index.html

You may wonder what that picture’s doing here and what that title ‘The Vale of Strange’ is about. It should all become clear as this post progresses. But I think you will agree that ‘The Vale of Strange’ sounds like a fair description of where we find ourselves when we’re trying to argue the...

https://www.meaction.net/2018/12/05/all-i-want-for-christmas-is-sciencenotstigma/

Saw this linked to on Facebook. Full paper available at https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/23f4ba_ae3ffbf6ff614c669f1e6ad9420a2dc9.pdf I'm puzzled about where this was actually published. In the document linked to above it says On what appears to be the website of the Journal of Biological...

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...

Latest from David Tuller: After I posted yesterday’s blog about Per Fink’s upcoming appearance at the fourth annual Columbia Psychosomatic Conference being held this weekend, I received the following e-mail from Columbia’s Alla Landa. She is an assistant professor of “clinical psychology in...

Not at all sure of the value of this. Paywall at https://journals.lww.com/otology-neurotology/Abstract/publishahead/Can_a_Chronic_BPPV_With_a_History_of_Trauma_be_the.96598.aspx

I don't know any more about this - just copied from an incoming post: Title: The American Psychiatric Association Publishing Textbook of Psychosomatic Medicine and Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, Third Edition Chapter: 25. Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia Syndromes Authors: Michael C. Sharpe...

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/

Findings look interesting (improvement (n=9) and deteriorated (n=10)); conclusion daft (Guided graded Exercise Self-help may be improved by targeting those most likely to improve, and education about the indeterminate phase.) Datum: 11 juli 2018 URL...

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 -...