Which is more than little ironic, given that is what we are accused of.
This is the kind of study there needs to be a lot more of. Basic motor functions, including gait, balance, coordination, etc. Properly controlled...
Peer review is clearly seriously broken in more than a handful of areas of science, and no more so than in psychosomatics, which has clearly gone...
I agree. I meant for sustained comfort on the face, as the headbands pull the masks onto the face more strongly (hence gives a better seal) than...
I walk significantly faster now than before I got sick. Best I can tell it is because I had to instinctively recalibrate the optimal relationship...
Ideally you would want enough patients to split them into two groups, those who did a single CPET, and those who did the 2 test version. Finding...
The more results I see across the board, the more I am convinced that all we know so far (to the extent we know anything for sure about ME) are...
Any definition that does not include a delayed component, to differentiate between various post-activity responses (PEM, DOMS, etc), will fail....
No argument there.
Mine are P2, which is the Australian equivalent of N95. Don't agree that they are single use only. It depends on how you manage them between...
I was initially unhappy about them only using a single CPET measure, not the 2-day test-retest version, and thought it a serious lost opportunity...
I remain unconvinced about that. There might be, or might not. Just isn't enough evidence either way, at this point. I fear you under estimate...
Chronic conditions, sometimes referred to as functional somatic disorders, such as myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS),...
I am very skeptical of any ME study that fails to find any evidence of hemodynamics problems, especially one that did not control for PEM. That...
"No peer-reviewer should have allowed a claim of clinical effectiveness to pass unchallenged." Peer-review is clearly broken in this area of...
even though the study was designed in a way guaranteed to generate an unknown amount of bias, This is the core problem running through all these...
I’m afraid that getting these sort of things changed by NHS bureaucracy is often a very frustrating business. Especially when one the main...
Or just drop the the program completely. Leave that profiteering crap to the commercial networks.
It requires a certain amount of background knowledge to grasp the problem. Both the technical stuff and the broader socio-political history of how...
Which is the real psychosocial pathology for this disease. The most important feature of which is that it is entirely secondary and contingent –...
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