Looks potentially important - the authors have a lot of impressive affiliations e.g. Yale School of Epidemiology. There is a risk that people...
To be devil's advocate for a moment: Perhaps the BPS view does not require deconditioning to a level that is worse than healthy sedentary people?...
Ugh. Seems like they googled 'Long Covid treatments' and wrote about what they found in the mistaken belief that it was "knowledge". This is not...
great blog @ME/CFS Skeptic - thanks to you both
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We've split off the discussion about abdominal vascular compression syndrome and related matters to a new thread: Gut compression syndromes;...
There's some discussion about matters related to Forward-ME here (follow the arrow in the quote header)
An interesting paper from this New Jersey team. They suggest that the problems of less efficient brain function, essentially the brain throwing a...
That youtube video by Eiko Fried linked in the tweet above is great, well worth a listen. I'll put another link here in case something happens to...
Thanks SNT, a glossary certainly helps with this one.
I think it's important to call a spade a spade. If we call it a functional digging implement, people will be confused, and think it might be a...
:cry: So very sad. Thanks David for posting these testimonies. Edit I've just read Naomi's blog and it is extremely good, well worth reading
I wonder if McEvedy and Beard would have been interested in the Royal Free outbreak if there had not been a number of cases of persisting illness...
Thanks Kiristar. There's a paywall to make comments on the article, but if anyone wants to use any or all of my post to build their own comment,...
I think this was an interesting paper, making good use of retrospective data. It seemed to me to be well done, with good recognition of the...
Ideas arising from a recent van Campen study: undertake analysis of cerebral brain flow (CBF) and cardiac output (CO) upon orthostatic challenge...
Limitations/ future research ideas: Yes, good ideas: undertake the analysis in all ME/CFS patients, not just those reporting orthostatic...
On possible mechanisms Of course, this study only looked at people with a normal response to the tilt test in terms of heart rate and blood...
These paragraphs from the discussion are worth reading: It would be worth looking at these papers that have evaluated the use of compression...
The flow was the sum from the carotid and vertebral arteries. Stroke volume was the velocity of blood passing through the aorta in one heart beat...
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