Yup, no control group and a massive amount of placebo effect. Which is when it is "open-label." You know what you are taking, it's on the bottle...
With my FM pain and shall I dare say fatigue, ataxia (weirdo walking when suddenly overwhelmed by being outside), dizzyness, etc. etc. and...
Clinical phenotypes (what shows to the eye) aren't that similar in ME and FM. Rather, the term clinical phenotypes is meaningless here. Shows...
This is a proposal so no control group. Seems everyone's pet PT technique thrown at the n=28 FM patients with only a numeric rating of pain at >3...
Heath professionals are supposed to have "objective measurements" to show the effectiveness of their interventions. Thus, a starting point, or...
If it sounds too good to be true, it's most probably marketing or fraudulent claims. There are many testimonials by horse owners on the equine...
Maybe there's something to this or maybe it's post hoc ergo propter hoc (after this, therefore because of this). Which means that the spontaneous...
Pretty sure it's quack-o-rama. Used to jumpstart muscles in physical therapy treatment of knee arthritis and not proven efficacy for that, I...
There are some people who are indeed isolated working from home and would do better with getting back to a social (office) setting. Most kids, but...
CBT is pretty simplistic. Either you are rationalizing, generalizing, catastrophizing, doing black or white thinking, etc. etc. Aren't there...
Perhaps AI could be an improvement over the average CBT technician or practitioner. But more germaine is the development of new drugs for chronic...
Researchers are physiotherapists in two centers in Spain. What do these phrases actually mean (I don't have access to the full study):...
They used retroactively patients who already had those lab tested done (Vit D and B12). Could that fact limit the uselfulness of the study? It...
I have a hard time with these practitioners and their problems. They seem to be lacking some important traits. Like patience, compassion,...
i have never had a visual image of my pain (FM). I assume the researcher thinks they will change such visual images and thus change the pain....
I have trouble taking any research from traditional Chinese medicine academies seriously.
As a PwFM, I will (n=1) attest that adequate pain relief in fibromyalgia is attainable through medication only, if then. When pain is relieved, a...
why would famine be a deterrent to consuming milk?
I love how the researchers had to modify their protocol of 60 minutes of walking in 20 minute bouts with short rest periods. If they had read...
Why bile acids? What is their significance in the totality of the microbiome? 42 subjects and 42 controls, paltry.
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