It's like the joke about someone asking directions and getting the reply "Well I wouldn't start from here."
I was told last week by the Long Covid service in Gloucestershire that they expect their funding to end and the service to close in spring 2025....
And because patients do by and large have basic common sense, when they get given these lists of complicated impossible exercises they say 'yes,...
That graphic is a perfect example of the kind of thing that is written to make healthcare professionals feel better, not patients.
https://www.medscape.co.uk/viewarticle/can-brain-training-ease-mental-fog-long-covid-2024a10006zx
Call for evidence for the 'fit note reforms' is here...
Hi Dania, I'm too old to participate, but just wanted to comment on this: Taking breaks during a call doesn't help, in my experience - it just...
Cerebra reported a few years ago on how often the parents of disabled children get accused of FII after they seek the support they're legally...
My Fitbit thought I'd been for a swim when I'd been sitting on the floor folding laundry! Definitely room for something more sensitive. I wonder...
(Wasn't sure which section to post this in, mods feel free to move!)
Just saw this via a post on Mastodon. https://www.hhs.gov/blog/2024/03/26/calling-innovators-hhs-long-covid-healthathon-launches-25k-prizes.html...
Funny how the more schools punish children who can't attend for whatever reason, and harass and criminalise their parents, the more school...
Wellness Recovery Action Plan seems to be specifically a mental health management thing: "Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) was created by...
So, lots of evidence of a range of impairments, but because one of the patterns differs from what we see in another disease, we'll say it's a sign...
It's so detached from reality. Oh no, a 400% increase in the waiting list for autism assessment since 2019, what could be causing it?! Well, talk...
Perhaps these chaps could benefit from some CBT to help them address their fearful responses to the world changing around them.
It's ironic that this trial is about "personalised" interventions but all the participants get the same advice, while a genuinely personalised...
yes, good point. Especially in a world where politicians answer questions about rising rates of long-term ill health with "clearly their benefits...
If they genuinely wanted to assess the effectiveness of things like this for people with multiple long-term conditions, they'd be looking at...
Maybe it's the brain fog, but I can't see anything at all in the article that justifies the headline.
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