Fibromyalgia is usually triggered by something, such as physical trauma, and the combination and pattern and frequency of symptoms in fibromyalgia...
It seems to me that it's difficult to assess what the impact of the fairly loose fibromyalgia diagnostic criteria has on identifying patients that...
Many people with long covid develop POTS, and that can present like a panic attack or anxiety, and also feel like a panic attack or inspire a...
I'm honestly not in a position to really fully understand how systematic reviews and GRADE work, and what's acceptable, hence why I was/am trying...
So I think there's a bit of miscommunication going on here, where my specific points and query may not be being completely understood. My basic...
Perhaps cochrane will significantly downgrade unblinded trials that rely on subjective outcomes. Based on NICE, that does seem like a possibility....
As far as I can tell the current standard is that subjective outcomes in unblinded trials are basically accepted, although they get marked down a...
So, I'm not an expert on this, so hopefully someone can help me with this. The general idea of systematic reviews, like what cochrane does, is...
Here is the document translated with google translate, if that helps anyone:...
I personally get the impression there's a great deal of interest in "functional neurological disorder" in psychiatry. Which makes the lack of...
Do you know if they were going to do that as a long term follow up, or just check at the end of the ten weeks?
Is Kennair saying here that they did actually have objective outcomes? What outcomes is he talking about? Also, this logic that because ME is...
Choosing the right term for this is a bit tricky because there are a number of closely related concepts (such as the placebo effect, and others...
That piece from Fiona Godlee wasn't quite as bad as I thought it would be. However this idea that "pacing" involves focusing on symptoms more and...
There are differences between the nature of brain abnormalities found. The sorts of brain abnormalities found in ME, things like reduced white...
This paper says "The process underlying central sensitivity is thought to be central sensitisation (CS).3 The definition and understanding of CS...
This article features this diagram, if anyone finds it of interest: [ATTACH]
That's very interesting. ME seems to have this reputation as a permanent illness amongst some people, when it's actually really people that have...
Why does talking/thinking about ME create anxiety and fear? Because it makes people worried about getting permanently sick?
Central sensitivity seems to be another one of these grand unifying theories that seem to appeal to people in medicine a lot. Vague enough that it...
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