Thank you @TamaraRC for presenting your hypotheses so clearly in that video, although I'll need to watch it again to follow it all. I think that...
In case anyone else ever wants to try to head off a recommendation for massage as an ME/CFS treatment, there might be some lines in the following....
One last comment - in the included 32 studies, tuina was compared with an extraordinary range of treatments: moxibustion, hyperbaric oxygen...
If we take the reported data from one study that is in the mid range, Feng Wei 2022 Experimental treatment:.....Mean 4.9........SD 1.29 Control...
Reading between the lines there, that study I mentioned up thread (reference [10]) that found that the percentage of people with CFS having the...
Results of the Chalder Fatigue Scale: Only six studies. The mean difference was only a reduction of 1.59. That's unlikely to be a clinically...
They did not search on ME/CFS They included 32 studies. All were undertaken in China, so I think that we can assume that the treatment studies...
Wow, here's a trick to get your reviews producing the outcome you want that I had not thought about before. The inclusion criteria for studies is...
In China, massage, as a traditional Chinese medicine therapy, is widely used in the treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome. Guided by the basic...
nope [8]. White PD, Goldsmith KA, Johnson AL, et al.; PACE trial management group. Comparison of adaptive pacing therapy, cognitive behaviour...
[3]. Wu Q, Gao J, Bai D, et al. Prevalence of chronic fatigue syndrome in China: a meta-analysis. Youjiang Med J. 2020;48:727–35. It's irrelevant...
A doctor claiming so much expertise in ME/CFS that they train GPs in ME/CFS management has said that clinical guidance should recommend massage...
Sounds like wonderful news. It feels like post-viral syndromes are going mainstream. Is that how people closer to this see the commissioning of...
I've written a response to the suggestion that acupuncture is an appropriate treatment for ME/CFS and that it should be included in clinical...
Do you think there are other studies of acupuncture for ME/CFS that were not included in this review? I would not be surprised, given that they...
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Norwegian team I thought this was a nicely written study. They picked a well-defined topic that is important - are mast cells part of the Long...
I have written the following for a producer of clinical guidance. It is in response to a request from a doctor (who claims expertise in managing...
It is possible that some studies used the bimodal (0,1) scoring system, making the scale 0-14. I have looked hard at the paper and I can't find...
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