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    Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Improves Physical Function & Fatigue in Mild & Moderate CFS: A Consecutive RCT, 2021, Gotaas et al

    Would that Dr also be happy if big Pharma designed a non-blinded study where participants got 16 weeks of medication, 8 weeks of internet medication and a control group that got nothing. No objective outcomes were used because that might spoil the party. Best place for studies like that is the...
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    Graded exercise therapy doesn’t restore the ability to work in ME/CFS. Rethinking of a Cochrane review, 2020, Vink & Vink-Niese

    Any properly conducted trial into the effects of a treatment should also record side effects etc to see if the treatment is actually safe or not.
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    Cochrane Review: 'Exercise therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome', Larun et al. - New version October 2019 and new date December 2024

    Thank you for that because with your link I managed to find an Excel version but I wasn't allowed by the forum to upload the Excel version that's why I have uploaded the PDF version
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    Cochrane Review: 'Exercise therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome', Larun et al. - New version October 2019 and new date December 2024

    Dolphin, can you please upload the fine trial individual scores or do you have a link to these scores for me; thank you
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    Work Rehabilitation and Medical Retirement for [ME/CFS] Patients. A Review and Appraisal of Diagnostic Strategies, 2019, Vink et al

    Thank you for your compliments and comments. As far as older age and prognosis is concerned, your concerns about that are answered in the text (see attached screenshot)
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    Cognitive behavioural therapy for ME/chronic fatigue syndrome is not effective. Re-analysis of a Cochrane review, 2019, Vink & Vink-Niese

    Dr. Ramsay published the first diagnostic criteria for ME, a condition characterized by a unique form of muscle fatigability whereby, even after a minor degree of physical effort, 3 or more days can elapse before full muscle power is restored; variability or fluctuation of symptoms even in the...
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    Cognitive behavioural therapy for ME/chronic fatigue syndrome is not effective. Re-analysis of a Cochrane review, 2019, Vink & Vink-Niese

    I just quoted what they said. I have been bedridden with severe ME for a long time. I do suffer from muscle fatigue i.e. abnormally delayed muscle recovery after trivial exertion (the M in ME). and I have got a similar problem with my brain (the E in ME). However I do not suffer from chronic...
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    Cognitive behavioural therapy for ME/chronic fatigue syndrome is not effective. Re-analysis of a Cochrane review, 2019, Vink & Vink-Niese

    Thank you very interesting "Thirty microbiologists, psychiatrists, neurologists, and immunologists met informally at the Ciba Foundation recently" (written in November 1988). They noted that "its hallmark" is "the muscle (and mental) fatigue" Yet they want to change that to "the symptom of...
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