What sophism is this close ended argument. Problem with Neurology is that practitioners have crude tools, like Nerve Conduction Tests, which use electromagnetic fields spreading energies many magnitudes the fields they hope to measure.
It is not surprising that many Neurologist doubt reality of Thoracic Outlet Syndrome & Fibromyalgia. Their electrodynamic tests only become selective about two weeks after the nerves they are intending to measuring have died.
During my medical studies, I was much impressed by expressions of the autonomic nervous system. The yin & yang nature of tissues modulations under control of these nerves seemed profoundly revealing of human functions & symptoms.
When one studies so called functional disorders it seems apparent that patterns of autonomic disregulation are common. Brain, brain stem, & autonomic nerve system are hand & glove; mind & peripheral tissues connect.
However the autonomic nervous system tracts all the soft & hard tissues of body on way to the periphery. There seems myriad opportunities for autonomic nerve tissues to be impinged & caused to dysfunction throughout the entire body periphery.
Neurologists have no way to effectively measure peripheral dysautonomic activity. Who can say that Migraine, Panic Attacks, POTS, Gastroparesis, Recurrent Syncope, CRPS, IBS, IC, Dysmenorhea, Endometriosis, Chronic Pain, & myriad Paresthesias are not dysautonomic disorders?
My own view is that when one studies these symptom patterns, then one discovers functions & dysfunctions of the autonomic nervous system in grand display. It is these dysfunctions that warrant advanced & in-depth study.
Too often modern clinicians retreat to the mysterious mind, mystical ideas, mental abberations, conversion reactions, & Jungian abstractions to explain symptoms & behaviors better explained by organic tissue disorders & dynamics currently beyond our abilities to measure.
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