Z Gesamte Inn Med. 1988 Nov; 43(22): 649-50.

[Functional therapy of functional disorders in general medicine]

Sturm D.

Gesellschaft für Allgemeinmedizin der DDR, Bezirksgesellschaft, Karl-Marx-Stadt.

Functional disturbances are clearly to be diagnosed by anamnesis and clinical examination and the causes in psyche, in the field of vegetative disturbance or in the blocked motor segment are to be established. According to the differentiated diagnosis psychotherapy, neural therapy and manual therapy, respectively, at a sufficiently early beginning of the therapy are able to remove the disturbance. With this can be begun at the early consultation. Thus an "exclusion diagnostics" is not inhibited, this is in no case justifies the delay of the therapy. Conclusions for the training, the further training and improvement are necessary.