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Royal Society of Medicine livestreamed event on 11 July. 'Organised by Rheumatology and Rehabilitation' https://www.rsm.ac.uk/events/rheumatology-and-rehabilitation/2024-25/rrt52/

Maybe not any more. From the minutes of the APPG on ME and Long Covid last month: https://appgme.co.uk/meetings/minutes-for-appg-meeting-14-may/

This is where the faked-up data about sickness benefits enabling long-term sickness comes in, so that cuts can then be presented as "compassion", as "saving" people from being "cast on the scrapheap" and "trapped" in a life of dependency.

FWIW I've just asked a relative of mine who is a professional circus acrobat, her core muscles are steel. Answer: "we'd never do that many situps, they're not really optimal for abs".

Also with a mean age of 45.

Considering that it follows on from a pandemic, it's positively modest.

Table 2 shows 29.7% of the control group experiencing "PEM". :emoji_shrug:

Tiny numbers, and the non-covid controls were also "randomly selected" patients at the teaching hospital but I can't see if the paper includes details on what their health conditions were.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/24/keir-starmer-disability-benefit-reforms-rebellion-by-mps As usual, the journalist does not provide the basic factual context that PIP is not an out-of-work benefit.

Interesting choice of journal.

Just in case this is useful to anyone! https://www.biologists.com/grants/travelling-fellowships/

As with autism being found to have genetic links both with intellectual disability and with higher ability. it probably says more about who gets diagnosed.

Line that jumped out at me on skimming the minutes: Danny Altmann "highlighted that there has been no Long Covid research funding of any significance from the NIHR since 2021."

I use a duvet cover with no duvet in it!

Reduced perception of fatigue is a real double-edged sword if it causes you to go beyond your limits. Even if it's just by a little bit each day, because you feel you're a bit brighter for whatever reason, culminating in a crash. I'd guess a lot of us have been down that dead end at times.

It would be nice to think that many of the 266 who chose not to attend did so because they know it would be bullshit.

[Principal Skinner meme] "Could our evidence be so low-quality? No, it's the patients who are wrong."

and "ask your GP" is such a pointless thing to be told by an app when anyone using the app will already have seen their GP. And so patients go round and round in the system on the promise that someone somewhere will have "specialist support" for them (while HCPs complain about patients seeking...

If they're going to start promoting brain retraining, are they going to do the same for all the other unevidenced treatments backed by enthusiastic anecdotes? Why would you lower your standards for one but not others?

Four of the authors are also authors of this study, which found CBT had no effect on whether people developed chronic pain, but the authors claimed efficacy and success anyway...