Anniversary congress 2024

Some have already been here 10 years ago. Some come for the first time and some can’t be here anymore. One to whom we owe a lot Dr. Davanloo who died in November 2023. For this, I would like to present something thoughtful „The puzzle of life„

It perfectly describes, what life is all about. It's about being or becoming human. 

Session 1 and 10

Breakthrough and Symptom dissapearing

The cornerstone of the model.

Generates significant individual changes in a short time, with consequent changes in the more complex systems of the couple or family

Over 50 published outcome studies

• Urethral Syndrome/ Pelvic Pain, Back Pain, Functional Movement Disorders, Chronic Headache, Pseudoseizures, Chronic Pain, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Mixed MUS, Atopic Dermatitis, Bruxism, Functional Neurological Disorders
• Effects are sustained or increase in follow-up (Town and Driessen 2013)
• Outperforms CBT for Chronic Pain (Abbass et al, 2022)
• Emotional focus is important in patient outcomes (Town et al., 2019)

Epidemiology of DDD

• Onset ≈ age of 16 ± 6 (95% before the age of 25)
• Men : women = 1:1
• Prevalence in the general population ≈ 1% (Yang et al. 2023)
• Outpatients 5-20% (Yang et al. 2023)
• Inpatients 17.5-41.9% (Yang et al. 2023)
• Administrative 12-month prevalence of DDD = 0.007% (Michal et al. 2010)
• Course mostly chronic and treatment-resistant, rarely episodic
• 15 or more years of permanent DP/DR are common
• ≈ 7 years until "diagnosis" (Sierra 2009)
• High comorbidity (depression, anxiety disorders, obsessive thoughts, substance
• abuse, personality disorders)