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This showed up in a search because of reference 6. Unfortunately, I can't access it, so I have no idea how worthwhile it is to highlight. https://www.nzdoctor.co.nz/node/19379 What to expect the first time you encounter a patient with ‘long COVID’ 1 September 2021

Changing close contact rules for children risks complications of Long Covid, says expert [..] "Young adults are getting Long Covid - you can have mild symptoms, you can be 16-years-old, and you can have 15 months of chronic fatigue syndrome and all sorts of neurological problems as part of...

Table 1. List of soothers used for this study 1) Mindfulness (living in the here and now and being non-judgmental) 2) Aids (such as a wheelchair, jug, comfortable matrass or good pillows) 3) Medication that reduces disease activity or symptoms 4) Doing a fun thing with family or friends 5) A...

via Dr. Marc-Alexander Fluks Source: University Utrecht Date: May 11, 2021 URL: https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/405927 https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/405927/Crowe%20%288158479%29%20thesis.pdf Lumpers Versus Splitters: Analysing the Effects of Soothers on...

Opinion: Coping with Long Covid - how exercise and other treatments can help The focus on research into and symptoms of Long Covid needs to be complimented by treatment options, writes Dr Jennifer Dineen. https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/what-is-long-covid-and-do-i-have-it-5543894-Sep2021/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-92736-5 Article Open Access Published: 28 June 2021 Association between physical exercise and stroke recurrence among first-ever ischemic stroke survivors Lisha Hou, Mier Li, Ju Wang, Yawen Li, Qianwen Zheng, Lu Zhang, Qiang Yao, Jing Zhang...

I can't access the abstract. Quickly looking at the slides, I can't see any reference to "chronic fatigue syndrome". The article says this which does sound like it is referring to a diagnosis of chronic fatigue syndrome, but I would like something more definite: --- I found this interesting:

I don't have access to the full paper, but the convenience samples that Leonard Jason has used have tended to be people who are ill, on average, many years with a low employment rate. I have taken part myself in some of the surveys (I am housebound for decades). It's not that surprising that...

I agree. It's a pity because he has a ready-made cohort of people who got ME/CFS following another infection (EBV). He could have compared changes over time in both groups.

26F/2M I looked up photos of Sam (male) and Vic (female).

Wasn't sure where to post this. I doubt it matters, but I saw someone highlight that all 13 of their staff in this photo are female.

Thanks. I found the discussion of the exercise intensity of specific activities of work and daily activities towards the end of Dr Hodges’ statement interesting.

They posted a number of tweets in the last day or so. Poster is a Twitter novice so didn’t do the thread right. Sample:

Latest total:

Don’t know anything more. I presume this is in Canada not the UK:

Fred Friedberg previously devised a cognitive therapy approach that was based on pacing rather than graded activity. See Table 1 here for the elements of it...

The official protocol is here: https://bmcneurol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2377-7-6 It uses 65 or less. I think it one stage it was 60 and then it was moved (I'm a bit rusty). It definitely wasn't 75 when they started recruiting. The interesting thing about their proposing 75...