No Health Without Mental Health: Why mental health is all of our business
by Brendon Stubbs
20 November 2019
Our annual lecture 2019 explored the links between MSK and mental health, the implications for how we commission and design services and how we work with individual patients. Everyone has a role to play because mental health is all of our business. Brendon Stubbs is Head of Physiotherapy, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation trust and NIHR Clinical Lecturer, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London.
Depression and anxiety are common comorbidities amongst people with MSK conditions. There is a complex interrelationship, with MSK conditions causing anxiety and depression, whilst depression and anxiety make pain feel worse. Pain, mental health and disability are strongly linked, so not recognising or treating one can impact the others greatly.
Previous ARMA Speakers
See videos, follow slide presentations and hear audio from previous keynote lecture speakers:
- Dame Carol Black, 2018, Musculoskeletal conditions, disability and employment
- Stephen Dorrell, 2016, MSK: leading the way in a changing landscape?
- 7th Annual Lecture, 2015, Implementing a public health approach to MSK.
- Jacquie White, NHS England, AGM 2015 Person-centred co-ordinated care for LTCs
- 6th Annual Lecture, 2014, Lord Hunt of King’s Heath
- Prof. Sir Muir Gray, AGM 2014 Population and personalised healthcare
- 5th Annual Lecture, 2013 Improving outcomes in MSK: an interview with the National Clinical Directors
- Dr. Partha Kar, AGM 2013 Delivering Integrated Care
- 4th Annual Lecture, Dr. Martin McShane, 2012 Domain 2: Enhancing the quality of life for people with long-term conditions