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Be interesting to see a more granular breakdown of the 45-64 age group, maybe into 5 year intervals, to see if the rate goes up with age.

Similar story here. Got sick one day in late Oct 1984, struggled hard with it, not helped by the medical profession's 'offerings', my life just vanishing before my eyes in a particularly opaque and horrible way. Eventually reached crisis point as nothing was working and my options had run out...

That is probably the most significant change. Partly for support and solidarity, and partly because it has made it much harder for the authorities to pull the wool over patients' eyes and fob us off when we can directly access the medical literature and see for ourselves what the real state of...

Based on no evidence at all.

No consideration of whether it appropriate or not? Or is it just CBT for all?

Drowned themselves in a vat of it.

Don't you think you should have thought of that and adequately implemented it from day one of your grand FND project? This is what happens when you let clowns with Big Important Ideas™ play with people's lives.

This may or may not be a bad thing, depending on what the clinic was offering. Patients need to be careful about what they wish for. If we are going to demand dedicated clinics then we need to be clear about what they can and cannot offer us. At this stage I think they have little to offer us...

How did they measure adherence? Indeed. They have not collected any data that reveals causation, and especially direction of any causation. But the whole point of doing science is to determine causal relationships. If a study cannot contribute to that then it is not scientific in any...

Because that is how snake oil merchants operate. Seriously. It is far worse than that: They don't want to ask them, and are actively working to prevent them being asked and honestly answered.

Thank you, @Valerie Eliot Smith.

Thanks.

Is that available in downloadable PDF form?

Who said mixed metaphors don't work? :thumbup:

For which patients? No stratification. No mention of a control group. Retrospective. Impossible to determine causation. Patients who were going to improve/recover naturally probably did so anyway. If anything what they measured was the natural recovery rate, independent of exercise.

Acceptable interventions provide coherent explanations, What about accurate explanations? Does that have any relevance and importance? without imposing additional burden. Have you ever considered not burdening us with endless psycho-moral speculation, and just generally getting off our backs...

"We need less food. More exercise" Better quality food would help a lot too, (along with built environments that encourage more exercise, better bike paths, for example). Simply swapping high fructose corn sugar for conventional sucrose, which they have recently done, is not a significant...

can empower members through support and validation, What about through also offering a better understanding of the real state of research findings and clinical benefits (or lack of them)? However, they also risk amplifying unverified claims or deepening exclusion from mainstream care. What...

You can in psychosomatics, they do it all the time. Construct validity and relevance are not important. Just ask them.

And by implication those who tried to point out that psychologising it all and treating with CBT was highly inappropriate. Hard to find any kind words to describe the likes of Garner and Miller. I can't even grant them merely 'well-meaning' anymore. There are simply no excuses whatsoever for...