What percentage of people in the cited back-pain study were reported to have neuroplastic (not structural) causes?

Wendie Trubow, MD, MBA, IFMCPPresident at Five Journeys, Functional Medicine & Wellness Provider, Best Selling Author, Passionate Champion for Health

Functional Neurological Disorder Symptoms

7 Aug 2025 · 1 min

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A brief YouTube monologue (speaker: Wendie Trubow, MD) listing many symptoms the speaker attributes to functional neurologic disorder (FND). Symptoms named include migraines, dizziness, tinnitus, difficulty swallowing, visual disturbances, pseudo-seizures, fibromyalgia, irritable bowel, long COVID and chronic fatigue cases, pelvic/genital pain (including persistent genital arousal disorder), and widespread back pain. The speaker asserts many of these are functional (neuroplastic) rather than structural and cites a study of over 200 people with back pain reporting 88% neuroplastic etiology.

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88% (speaker states this was found in a study of over 200 people with back pain)

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Most cases of migraine fall into this. It's literally from head to toe. I mean, this sounds what neurologists are now calling functional neuro. Functional patients. That's right. Functional neurologic disorder falls into this. Most cases of migraine fall into this. It's literally from head to toe. Dizziness, tinnitus, difficulty swallowing visual disturbances, pseudo seizures Fibromyalgia, Irritable bowel Most cases of long Covid Many cases of chronic fatigue Po pelvic pain genital pain Persistent genital arousal disorder Pain in the back is very common. There was a study last year that carefully looked into the psychosocial histories and the medical histories of over 200 people with back pain and found that 88% of them it was neuroplastic, not structural.