Somatic symptoms: beyond ‘medically unexplained’ [PDF]
Somatic symptoms may be classified as either 'medically explained' or 'medically unexplained' - the former being considered medical and the latter psychiatric. In healthcare systems focused on disease, this distinction has pragmatic value. However, new scientific evidence and psychiatric classification urge a more integrated approach with important ...
Sharpe, Michael, Sharpe, M
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Treating medically unexplained symptoms via improving access to psychological therapy (IAPT): major limitations identified [PDF]
Background Improving Access to Psychological Therapies is a UK Government funded initiative to widen access to psychological treatment for a range of common mental health complaints, such as depression and anxiety. More recently, the service has begun to
Keith Geraghty, Michael J. Scott
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Medically Unexplained Symptoms and Attachment Theory: The BodyMind Approach® [PDF]
This article discusses how The BodyMind Approach® (TBMA) addresses insecure attachment styles in medically unexplained symptoms (MUS). Insecure attachment styles are associated with adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and MUS (Adshead and Guthrie, 2015)
Helen Payne, Susan D. Brooks
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Medically Unexplained Oral Symptoms
\ua9 2021 George Warman Publications. All rights reserved.Medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) are common in all areas of healthcare, and when the term is applied to oral symptoms, it can be appropriately focused as medically unexplained oral symptoms ...
Steel BJ, Durham J, Goel V, Dorman PJ
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Introduction: Medically unexplained physical symptoms (MUPS) are quite common in the primary care setting. These unexplained symptoms lead to physical, psychological, and functional disability increasing patient and caregiver distress. Methodology: Cross-
Goginani Ratnakara Rao +7 more
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The classification and nomenclature of 'medically unexplained symptoms': conflict, performativity and critique [PDF]
Medically unexplained symptoms – including the many syndromes that fall under this umbrella – involve a discrepancy between professional knowledge and lay experience and are often associated with latent or explicit dynamics of conflict.
Greco, Monica
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Background: Medically unexplained symptoms are frequently encountered by physicians at the primary care level. The complexity lies in the ill-defined nature of the multiple physical symptoms and the similarity to several organic disorders.
OO Ogunsemi +4 more
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Tailoring a cognitive behavioural model for unexplained physical symptoms to patient's perspective: a bottem-up approach. [PDF]
The prevalence of unexplained physical symptoms (UPS) in primary care is at least 33%. Cognitive behavioural therapy has shown to be effective. Within cognitive behavioural therapy, three models can be distinguished: reattribution model, coping model and
Zonneveld, L.N. +12 more
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Stellate ganglion block successfully relieved medically unexplained chronic pain: a case report
Medically unexplained symptoms refers to a clinical syndrome characterized by somatic symptoms that cannot be reasonably explained by any organic disease. Chronic pain can be a type of medically unexplained symptom.
Yiting Huang +4 more
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The interpretation of low mood and worry by high users of secondary care with medically unexplained symptoms [PDF]
DA - 20111021 IS - 1471-2296 (Electronic) IS - 1471-2296 (Linking) LA - eng PT - Journal Article SB - IMPeer ...
McGorm, K. +18 more
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