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But it still makes no sense to me. Why doesn't World Physio simply put out a statement that they have nothing to offer people with LongCovid? Why don't they say if a physician refers politely send the person back saying there is no evidence based treatment? Why put out a document that despite...

Absolutely, but a physician is trained to do that. When I had acute vertigo and ended up in the stroke clinic the physician who signed me off as stroke free gave me detailed advice on exercise and its value for stroke prevention. If someone with LongCovid has a competent physician assess them...

It is worth remembering that several lines of spread at the beginning petered out. We had at least one Chinese case that didn't spread. There was the French chalet where they all had it but in the end it didn't spread. If the virus escaped from the Wuhan lab, as I am pretty sure it did, then it...

I'm sorry but I don't understand the value of this. Why not simply say that there is no reason for a physiotherapist to get involved in LongCovid since we have no evidence to base treatment on? It is full of exactly the person-tailored stuff that therapists are using to dodge the fact that they...

I tried to make out what this is really about and am still not very sure. The author is a psychology graduate doing a PhD. The emphasis is on respecting the patient's experience. That may sound fair enough but I would not be surprised if like the Bristol crowd the interest in the patient's...

But I thought the discoursers on LongCovid had deliberately avoided any mention of ME/CFS? Seems your damn ed if you do and damned if you don't.

This piece seems to me totally unhelpful. @Peter Trewhitt makes some important points but I think the situation is more complex still. I may post more later today. But essentially this is like a professor of ignoramology saying that meteorologists have too many words for bad weather and that...

Hopefully the hollow ring to these comments will have the opposite effect to that intended. When I was on an ethics committee this sort of whingeing would have gone down like a lead balloon. Let's hope the NEM are in good form.

I was 'unaware' of some of that immunology as an immunologist. I am not that impressed by Cox's grasp of the subject.

I don't see how reducing circulation through capillaries would stop pathogens embolising (which is a pretty unusual situation anyway). I would have thought it would be better to open up the capillaries to encourage bacteria to be washed right through and on into the spleen. I am not sure that...

If the sports medicine people sense that business may dry up because of PWME refusing GET then they need to make sure it doesn't happen for Covid.

The soft whirring noise of vultures circling.

The bit about people with RA only limiting activity when it is intolerable is also garbage. When assessing an RA patient I would get a huge amount of information simply from the way they moved. Someone with RA walks differently, sits down differently, turns their head differently, and when you...

Seems like drivel. In 1985 occupational therapists were busy teaching RA patients 'joint protection techniques' to reduce the harm done to joints by usage. Most adults with RA keep going as much as they can because they find that unless they move their joints as much as possible during the day...

Have they? I don't think I ever have. If I am fatigued and try to do something I usually just feel even more fatigued. I may be pleased to have done something essential, like fasten down a dinghy in a force 8 gale in the middle of the night, but I don't recognise the idea of 'overcoming fatigue'...

Very much agree. To me the key error here is muddling an explanation of what happens normally with an explanation of what happens in disease. It is similar to the story of 'molecular mimicry'. The story for molecular mimicry is: the immune system has a sophisticated mechanism for leaving self...

I don't think anyone is likely to want Garner as a spokesperson.He is completely off message for all the relevant vested interest groups except perhaps Phil Parker. BPS people are not going to want people to think you can close down all the liaison psychiatry and rehab centres and employ...

I think the press just like a professor who talks touchyfeely bullshit. He is wonderful material - splurging nonsense about stress.

Am I right in thinking that all the other pseudoprofessors have gone bit quiet except Garner? Has he not noticed that the Fat Lady has already sung on this story? Will Cochrane be organising a discreet neutralization?

Oh but now it is all individualized and nothing to with GET. Need to keep up with the trend!