Recovery Techniques

The collection now covers 17 symptom presentations, including motor and vocal/phonic functional tic-like symptoms.

In this folder

• Functional Tics and Tic-Like Symptoms — motor and vocal symptoms, assessment limits and individualized care.

• Technique index — browse recovery and management techniques by symptom or alphabetically, with evidence labels.
• Original lists and page-count audit — see where each expanded page came from and which pages were added for care or specialist review.
• Collection and safety guide — understand the evidence labels, episode and flare guidance, safety limits and reassessment rules used throughout the collection.
• Functional-limb-weakness detailed techniques — open the first symptom-specific collection of full technique pages, including clinician procedures and plain-language anatomy.
• Functional-tremor detailed techniques — open nine full pages covering retrainment, competing rhythm, task focus, posture, relaxation, visual and EMG feedback, coordinated care and relapse planning.
• Functional-jerks detailed techniques — open nine full pages covering pattern mapping, warning-based attention, continuous movement, pain and muscle work, meaningful tasks, load, startle, safety and coordinated care.
• Functional-dystonia detailed techniques — open ten pages expanding the original list and three additional care/review pages covering supported positioning, gravity and task changes, loading, sensory work, visual and EMG feedback, stimulation, complications, equipment, injections, flare planning and coordinated care.
• Functional-gait-disorder detailed techniques — open thirteen full pages covering step initiation, sliding, speed, direction, rhythm, task focus, stairs, treadmill and harness work, visual feedback, community transfer, mobility aids and coordinated rehabilitation.
• Functional-seizure detailed techniques and learning materials — open nine pages covering the original list, a paediatric programme page, two planning pages, the existing CBT resource map and five planned unified booklets.
• Functional-sensory detailed techniques — open ten original-list expansions and two supporting care pages on sensory practice, daily contact, adaptation, stimulation safety, medical review, protection and flare planning.
• Functional-visual detailed pages — nine original entries expanded one-to-one, with explicit treatment-evidence limits and individualized visual safety.
• Functional-speech-and-voice detailed pages — eleven original entries expanded one-to-one, with selected speech and voice approaches, practical conversation goals and continuing communication access.
• Diagnostic techniques — find the separate collection about positive diagnostic signs and criteria.

[!IMPORTANT] A technique helping or not helping does not confirm or disprove FND. Symptoms involving falls, choking, breathing, injury, vision or seizures may require clinician-guided selection and adaptation.

Functional swallowing and globus: eleven detailed pages — one page per original entry, with assessment, nutrition, airway safety and treatment-evidence limits.

Functional cough and upper-airway symptoms: ten detailed recovery pages — all ten original entries expanded one-to-one, plus a collection overview. Assessed cough responses, breathing coordination, everyday care and coexisting conditions; professional-consensus evidence with diagnostic and airway-safety boundaries. Added September 20, 2026; human review pending.

Functional Cognitive Disorder: thirteen detailed recovery pages — thirteen original entries expanded one-to-one, plus a collection overview. Cognitive-process support, individualized rehabilitation and clearly labelled early research options. The additional Everything We Know About FCD background page keeps the diagnostic and recovery landings concise. Thirteen original-entry pages plus one collection overview and one separate background document; no new intervention. Updated September 21, 2026; human review pending.

PPPD: thirteen detailed recovery and care pages — Thirteen original entries expanded one-to-one, plus one collection overview. Includes individualized rehabilitation, care planning and clearly bounded specialist/medication discussions. Added September 22, 2026; clinical, lived-experience and accessibility review pending.

Functional facial symptoms: ten detailed pages — all ten original entries expanded, plus a collection overview. Includes pattern-specific rehabilitation, practical support and a bounded specialist-injection discussion.

Co-occurring conditions: treatment and recovery options

The separate Common Co-occurring Conditions collection introduces migraine, persistent headache, tinnitus, persistent pain, fibromyalgia, fatigue, insomnia, autonomic symptoms and IBS. Each topic has one overview with an initial technique list. These pages do not change this collection’s 17 symptom-presentation count or its original technique lists.

Functional paralysis: seven detailed recovery and care pages — seven original entries expanded one-to-one, from assessed movement and task practice to equipment, responsive planning, coordinated care, familiar episodes and continuing participation. Added September 23, 2026; human and clinical review pending.

Functional drop attacks: seven detailed recovery and safety pages — seven original entries expanded one-to-one, covering injury response, hazards, mobility, optional warning strategies, floor recovery, supported activity and overlapping conditions. Added September 24, 2026; human and clinical review pending.

Functional tics: eight detailed recovery and supporting-care pages — five original treatment/coordinated-care entries and three original safety/access/support entries, expanded one-to-one. One additional navigation overview; 17 symptom presentations and course-page counts are unchanged. Added September 24, 2026; human review pending.