I only read his article on PACE and it was excellent. He also wasn't afraid of making the connection to the health insurance industry. He wrote
Posts moved from BPS attempts at psychologizing #LongCovid Garner sharing his latest wisdom [MEDIA]
A compromise wouldn't do justice to people with ME/CFS because as long as the core issue is not adressed, there will be a never ending stream of...
What a sad disaster this for the affected patients and their families. It looks like SARS2 is more likely to cause long lasting problems than many...
Thank you. I somehow missed that post. Some comments on the CGI scores The authors say they chose CGI because "Some trials also reported...
I've had the suspicion for a while that pain neuroscience education might belong in the category of interventions that appear to work because 1)...
The committee's view that wait list controls are adequate is odd. It's easy to find critiques of the wait list control groups in psychotherapy...
Everything about LP is designed to maximize bias and placebo effects. This ruling is very satisfying and encouraging. Hopefully it signals better...
This could be a serious obstacle to any further LP studies. It's at the core of what is LP is and how it's supposed to work which seems to imply...
I would like to read this paper but sci-hub doesn't have it.
Because it would look silly to claim an improvement in physical function without a change in VO2 max!
The problem I have with that it sounds like a failure to distinguish between feeling tired after exercise and PEM. In my experience these are two...
We need to understand what is going on internally at Cochrane. If it's a simple misunderstanding of ME (erroneously viewing it as a state of...
Thanks for sharing. This is what I have I think, except that it was there even when I didn't have POTS. It's likely to be partially genetic in my...
Unblinded trial so not impressive. The Chalder scale abnormality is probably just how the software displays the data in the graph.
The delay could be an excuse to give the CBT/GET lobby more time to produce evidence tailor made to change the draft guidelines.
I can see the importance of considering political and social factors during the review even though a technical process seems like it would be an...
It should be limited in scope so as not to become a lot of work. I don't see the point in doing fine grained analyses of clinical trials. For...
I think there is a chance that it could have some influence if it's endorsed by patient organizations. It's also a response to organizations that...
My best guess is that to them "all in the head" means imaginary, whereas curing illness by changing one's attitude to the symptoms doesn't mean...
Separate names with a comma.
