Miyaoka Hitoshi, Miyachi Hideo, Oishi Satoru
Department of Psychiatry, Kitasato University, School of Medicine.
Nihon Rinsho. 2009 Sep;67(9):1726-30.
The functional somatic syndrome is applied to several syndromes characterized by medically unexplained physical symptoms, such as irritable bowel syndrome, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, etc. Both physical and psychiatric treatments are usually necessary for these syndromes and the term functional somatic syndrome was advocated to inform clinicians in America of this fact. However, We believe this term will not be useful in Japan, because most Japanese clinicians are already aware of this fact and treatment is different in each syndrome included in FSS.
功能性躯体综合征适用于几种以医学上无法解释的身体症状为特征的综合征，如肠易激综合征、纤维肌痛、慢性疲劳综合征等。对于这些综合征，通常物理治疗和心理治疗都有必要，功能性躯体综合征这一术语被提倡用于告知美国的临床医生这一事实。然而，我们认为这个术语在日本不会有用，因为大多数日本临床医生已经意识到这一事实，并且功能性躯体综合征所包含的每种综合征的治疗方法都有所不同。
