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    Causal Inference About the Effects of Interventions From Observational Studies in Medical Journals, 2024, Bibbins-Domingo et al

    The big issue if that wasn’t done as a trial but a retrospective is that if something works for you then you keep using it but if it doesn’t or find something better you don’t I never see people posting strata if they’re going up the stairs at work and walking back from the pub now they’ve...
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    Causal Inference About the Effects of Interventions From Observational Studies in Medical Journals, 2024, Bibbins-Domingo et al

    Wheedling or post hoc justification by the sounds why is it that healthy people are often the lazy ones who then spend so much energy trying to sell why their laziness is necessary ok or good for others instead of just getting in with it Whilst step way above our limits doing this for them...
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    Comments on energy conservation treatments for MS-related fatigue and a new proposal, 2024

    If it’s not science with testable null they are open to properly happening and being interested in then that’s precisely what these are people being these days allowed to use academic publications as a platform for manifestos selling bigotry these aren’t even ideas any more as they aren’t new...
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    UK: Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) articles, blogs and discussion

    I've looked it up and it seems the two people behind IAPT were: David M. Clark - Wikipedia Richard Layard, Baron Layard - Wikipedia So the point made somewhere by someone about psychology having been invaded by economics and its methods seems entirely relevant.
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    USA: Todd Davenport news, talks and tweets

    Thank you. It is very good I think I particularly thought of BACME at 57 mins in when there was a list of tasks they had tested and shown they cause ME/CFS to be over their limits. But it is so often the case that showering isn't one of these... so strange given I'm pretty sure most I know...
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    An opportunity for management of fatigue, physical condition, and (QoL) through asynchronous telerehabilitation in post-acute COVID-19..., 2024

    there is a big issue isn't there where the idea of both exercise and any old thing as a pretend psych 'therapy' being helpful for 'fatigue' having become a truism in the medical profession and pushed into other vocations. It is like the untouchable as if someone is suggesting smoking is good...
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    Review Disuse-Induced Muscle Fatigue: Facts and Assumptions, 2024, Sergeeva et al.

    Do you mean you actually hear a creak? Has anyone else noticed this? when i directly exercise certain muscles then when they are at the end of their whatever /out if whatever they I get 3 tugs in quick sequence. Like someone is pulling a rope straight letting it bend then tugging it again...
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    What are the necessary conditions and criteria for a theoretical model of ME/CFS?

    I agree, but with the caveat that I think we need to be careful about the cherrypicking/fishing for that would happen if we just threw data out there, given we know about the latencies and patterns but I don't know what might be manufactured if someone took a few good days vs bad and cart before...
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    A general thread on the PACE trial!

    Agreed. And it has just reminded me watching this (I think the last line about CBT, plus the bit about Chalder's misuse/misunderstanding of the term 'normal') that we need to begin requiring that it is underlined that just because Nice NG206 didn't throw out all CBT does NOT mean that it didn't...
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    What are the necessary conditions and criteria for a theoretical model of ME/CFS?

    To me, is it OK to go at the list / concept of testability from a different angle and suggest that it needs to be something that can explain or accommodate the idea that with sufficient REST - but that being in ME/CFS terms so a lot of rest when someone needs it and until they naturally feel...
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    What are the necessary conditions and criteria for a theoretical model of ME/CFS?

    I'm trying to add the bits together that might relate to muscle here, because the pain I'm thinking of I don't think is 'brain/nerve-related'. For me I think the earliest and most obvious was always the calves. Full-on deep soreness to a level I'd never felt before, and definitely not caused by...
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    What are the necessary conditions and criteria for a theoretical model of ME/CFS?

    ON point 1. I was thinking similarly on the more women than men affected stat too, based simply on the history of it being used as a dumping bucket when CFS (and probably still now). I thought of autism and women. I'm also all too aware of watching over the years on social media people trying...
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    What are the necessary conditions and criteria for a theoretical model of ME/CFS?

    I'm hoping this isn't too much of a sidetrack but this comment made me think of having recently read this (as I thought of clock genes / clock cells and this came up) and thought if it is correct then it begins to undermine the simplistic 'hardware-software / brain controls the body one-way...
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    What are the necessary conditions and criteria for a theoretical model of ME/CFS?

    Yep. That one seems to fluctuate for me significantly there is probably a term of like when the illness is ‘live’ I’m reaching for ie where I feel like my body is on a free fall/ downward situation and definitely if I’d had an illness exacerbate I remember @Peter Trewhitt doing a good post...
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    Paul Garner on Long Covid and ME/CFS - BMJ articles and other media.

    Yes. So you can see how the initial incarnation vs the additional amends takes it less and less from whyever it was signed off. But I get the staffing changes notes too. It is interesting to hear Action for ME said something / changed their mind and backing ? I’m intrigued given the current...
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    Paul Garner on Long Covid and ME/CFS - BMJ articles and other media.

    Sounds like the chimp felt the task was to complete the puzzle and then they would get the reward, whereas the child had been put in a different 'task' which undoubtedly included social pressures/coercion/behavioural psychology and so knew they also had to factor in the risk of 'displeasing'...
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    A general thread on the PACE trial!

    Wow, you can see where their move towards 'fatigue' being their big thing they realised they could 'own' and make as lowest common denominator / black box as possible over the years as a 'school' basing its papers on manifestos and a focus on lobbying to ever weaken methodology 'robustness' (if...
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    2024: NIH National Institutes of Health - ME/CFS Symposium on Intramural study - 2 May

    and of course your scale. Before you get ME/CFS you don't know fatigue can go higher than that time you ... and in fact I'm not sure that those who haven't had it or something similar would even think to equate 'being very ill' with 'fatigue' ie do most 'norms' use 'that time I had...
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