Sorry, I missed your post here. Please move my two above posts to that thread if you think it's appropriate. Though I think those comments are...
I agree, eventually you have to examine each idea proposed during the brainstorming mode in the cold light of day, when you are in a more...
Yes unfortunately hurt feelings are sometimes an unavoidable consequence of a rigorous skeptical investigation into a scientific hypothesis or...
What I have seen so far is also not very scientific, and I am not talking about Jen and Jeff's story, but the responses to it on this thread....
I think you might have misread that: on the PR poll as it stands, 18 have tested positive for CCI/AAI, and 11 tested negative. Total of 29 people....
Well here is a professional physical therapy and chiropractic table which can apply cervical traction, and it uses pretty much the same system as...
I am not suggesting any ME/CFS patient should try an over-the-door traction device. What I am suggesting is that a study could be conducted which...
Saying "a very small minority" may be mischaracterizing the stats. So far out of 20 ME/CFS patients tested by MRI with flexion, extension and...
It would be interesting to conduct a simple study examining whether ME/CFS patients when placed under neck traction experience instant remission...
I imagine a virus might affect connective tissue in various parts of the body, depending on which organs get infected; but when it happens to...
I would doubt a fluoroquinolone connection to CCI/AAI in the general case, but it's possible there could be a subset with CCI/AAI who already had...
I thought it was ligament degradation that caused CCI/AAI, rather than it being a bone thing? EDIT: Ah, I see from this article that there can...
Note: I just edited my above post to include a point (4).
What I am speculating is something along these lines: (1) You catch a viral infection, and perhaps initially develop post-viral fatigue, which as...
It does seem implausible. But what if the CCI/AAI only appears a little later in the course of the ME/CFS disease, as a consequence of ME/CFS?...
That's an interesting idea! It might be worthwhile conducting a poll asking all those 20 ME/CFS patients who have tested positive for CCI/AAI...
I agree that there is much uncertainty about the significance of the finding that 90% of these ME/CFS patients have CCI/AAI. Even if we assume...
It's good to enumerate risks, costs and uncertainties involved in such surgery as you have done. A couple of points though: That's true, the...
OK, that's interesting. I understood it took many months for your ME/CFS symptoms in general to disappear after surgery (although Jeff's...
Glad it raised a smile. I was in a playful mood when I wrote it! The jury is still out on that. There are researchers who discount viral...
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