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Yup, no control group and a massive amount of placebo effect. Which is when it is "open-label." You know what you are taking, it's on the bottle and you can look it up on the internet. Doesn't lead to any expectation of getting massively better or cured! now would it. This isn't research.

With my FM pain and shall I dare say fatigue, ataxia (weirdo walking when suddenly overwhelmed by being outside), dizzyness, etc. etc. and questionnaires: The professional reason behind a questionnaire is to screen for concurrent or pre-existing depression that is supposed to worsen existing...

Clinical phenotypes (what shows to the eye) aren't that similar in ME and FM. Rather, the term clinical phenotypes is meaningless here. Shows the lack of knowledge of the researchers.

This is a proposal so no control group. Seems everyone's pet PT technique thrown at the n=28 FM patients with only a numeric rating of pain at >3 (0-10 scale). That isn't the norm in studies; most require a 6 for pain on a 0-10 scale. Invasive or useful, is the use of color as an 'emotional...

Heath professionals are supposed to have "objective measurements" to show the effectiveness of their interventions. Thus, a starting point, or "baseline" howver useless. Part of the push for "evidence based" I suppose. In studies about the effectiveness of pain meds for FM, for instance, I...

If it sounds too good to be true, it's most probably marketing or fraudulent claims. There are many testimonials by horse owners on the equine branch of the company making the micro stim product. I dislike testimonials in place of evidence so much I could take a hatchet to them (not the...

Maybe there's something to this or maybe it's post hoc ergo propter hoc (after this, therefore because of this). Which means that the spontaneous improvements in long covid symptoms happened and would have happened without use of the device. I would need to know what the course of improvements...

Pretty sure it's quack-o-rama. Used to jumpstart muscles in physical therapy treatment of knee arthritis and not proven efficacy for that, I think. Gives the muscles a twitch. Nothing earthshattering. No message from the divine.

There are some people who are indeed isolated working from home and would do better with getting back to a social (office) setting. Most kids, but not all, also. However, that leaves out several cohorts (? the percentages) of people who need the flexibility of working from home or remotely from...

CBT is pretty simplistic. Either you are rationalizing, generalizing, catastrophizing, doing black or white thinking, etc. etc. Aren't there about 10-12 principles of CBT? If AI can parse your responses (which I am pretty sure it can), then spitting out the correct CBT principle to 'correct'...

Perhaps AI could be an improvement over the average CBT technician or practitioner. But more germaine is the development of new drugs for chronic pain. Ones that are at least 60% effective and don't cause constipation or upset the addiction community.

Researchers are physiotherapists in two centers in Spain. What do these phrases actually mean (I don't have access to the full study): "psychophysical" and the "cllnical sensory-related" for the variables. Many of the variables are clearly related such as pain intensity and anixety and...

They used retroactively patients who already had those lab tested done (Vit D and B12). Could that fact limit the uselfulness of the study? It could be that those lab tests were ordered precisely because the patients had outstanding (more than the usual per FM) symptoms pointing to Vit D and...

I have a hard time with these practitioners and their problems. They seem to be lacking some important traits. Like patience, compassion, dedication. If I were their supervisor in clinical rotation, I would have suggested an alternative career, such as auto mechanics. Jeez. I got diagnosed with...

i have never had a visual image of my pain (FM). I assume the researcher thinks they will change such visual images and thus change the pain. However, due to my incredulity viz a viz this article, I've started to yell at my pain. I feel better already.

I have trouble taking any research from traditional Chinese medicine academies seriously.

As a PwFM, I will (n=1) attest that adequate pain relief in fibromyalgia is attainable through medication only, if then. When pain is relieved, a miracle has occurred and one's mood shifts correspondingly. Moderate to severe pain is inherently catastrophic to the patient. That's the function...

why would famine be a deterrent to consuming milk?

I love how the researchers had to modify their protocol of 60 minutes of walking in 20 minute bouts with short rest periods. If they had read extensive literature, they would have begun with 20 minutes.

Why bile acids? What is their significance in the totality of the microbiome? 42 subjects and 42 controls, paltry.