I'm aware I'm giving weight to subjective SF-36 results and discounting measures that might be regarded as objective. I think in this case it's...
It's been cited again in Balancing the value and risk of exercise-based therapy post-COVID-19: a narrative review, 2023, Singh, Chalder et al.
I'm sure that that sounds very reasonable to most people. But we know the quality of a lot of the "evidence" that is cited in support of the idea...
The cardiovascular performance was measured by largely subjective measures. Although some measures of musculoskeletal performance improved more...
RESULTS Mean change 6-minute walk distance (m) Controls 614.3 + 20.7 = 635 ___ Exercise 590.7 + 77.4 = 668 Mean change Predicted VO2max...
I also note that the training programme was 6 weeks long, with evaluation at the end. That is not long enough to identify any sustainable...
I agree NP IACFSME could shut down their journal and save money. People with useful articles about ME/CFS and related topics have many better...
I suppose the only bright side to this is that the cohort was employees from one hospital. And surely some of the participants will understand...
Oh dear. Nice commentary SNT.
The ambiguity of the messages continues. e.g. at 23/24 minutes on one slide: "People tend to naturally increase their physical activity when they...
Perhaps it is churlish of me, but noting that exercise is contraindicated in people with post-viral symptoms seems to me to be only part of the...
In brief - this content is noncommittal but, to me, it doesn't look terrible. It doesn't sound as though the treatment of CFS has changed.
In the case of the Dubbo study, I recall that there were issues with the assessment of severity. From memory, they only assessed people a bit...
Nice commentary about the importance of objective measures in the introduction: Rationale and study hypothesis: Method: ICC criteria Mild...
PETITION UPDATE December update DEC 18, 2023 The day after our last petition update, the S4ME committee sent a letter to the Head of Governance,...
We've created a thread for Elise van de Putte in the Doctors section and copied a post there. The Netherlands: Paediatrician Elise van de Putte
And this is my (well, one of my) concerns with the Cochrane Exercise Review. The BPS proponents who seem to have some control over the outcome...
There is a substantial decrease of risk of MS in the HIV positive women, but the numbers of people with HIV going on to get MS are very small,...
Although the deadline has passed, UK advocacy organisations might like to check out the advertisement for health consumer studies in Coventry (see...
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