Explanation by analogy. It is a hypothesis, nothing more.
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I agree, there is no tested model of central sensitisation, just an accumulation of (often equivocal) correlations.
It could be an indirect measure of motivation during exercise testing, I wonder if an increase (eg more effort from baseline) in Borg score at 52...
There is a review in Psychology Today that summarises it. There is also a review here (and extra followup on the blog):...
The Borg scale is a relative scale which patients rate intensity of effort during an exercise test. It is meaningless to compare scores between...
How much do you want to wager?
It only worked for me using a US VPN.
Your personal experience? :p The underlying problem is that they did not provide what they said they would provide in the protocol. Even if they...
What happens if they decide to do an unblinded trial with self-report outcome measures?
The logical conclusion is that a score of 4 or more on the Chalder Fatigue Scale is not a specific predictor of CFS. (Note that Chalder reported...
I wonder what this means? I don't have access to the article yet...
I guess we'll have to assume that IRB had granted ethics approval? I'm not sure how the stair climbing test and six minute walking test are...
The young man pictured is of course a stock photo. The testimonial doesn't sound quite like anything anyone I know (or on ME forums) would write,...
Open label, sigh...
Notice also what all of these have in common (along with convulsive vasovagal syncope)? They are all acute phenomena that have short timeframes,...
The problem is they don't use such (eg measurements of cortisol or catecholamines) in a systematic manner. You can't just measure cortisol once,...
The publisher has existed in the Netherlands since 1987 and this particular journal since 1990 https://content.iospress.com/journals/work/1/1 The...
I don't see publishing fee at all, this is not a fee-to-publish open access journal. They are not on any of the lists of predatory publishers...
This looks to be a good quality study at first glance, there didn't seem to be any compelling group-wise differences between patients and...
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