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I wrote her, but hadn't seen the links to Mayo and Merck Manual. What to link to instead?

Beware the psychologist with hurt feelings about the irrelevance of psychology to most sciences.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2020/05/08/what-i-learned-watching-my-mom-parent-with-disability/ Brittany Collins, author The mom has ME. May be paywalled.

Wow, another example of publish or perish...rubbish.

The Merck Manual, especially the version for doctors, has been and still is worse than Cliff Notes. A letter to Dr. Stephen Gluckman a good idea.

Minor pain relief. Capsaicin cream better.

Moving one's body parts against the extraordinary weight of the water in a pool does give one an inordinate amount of strengthening per time of perceived effort. However, why this modality? Because it is effective and enjoyed by people with arthritis because of the off-loading of joints. Also...

Forgot to mention,I think Peter Trewhitt did, that by the time you anxiously prep yourself to get out of the house (assuming that you can get dressed, walk to the car, drive the car, walk to the pool building, withstand the noise and confusion, handle the sensory overload, handle the...

It is very easy to get dehydrated and dizzy in a warm pool doing the mildest of exercises. Water that isn't just a few degrees below body temperature isn't comfortable for moving muscles, in my opinion. Also important is the noise level, usually high in pools. Lighting can be bright off the...

I thought last night that a barrage of letters to editors for personal opinion pieces in newspapers would get out the word about what having ME is like. I think people are glued to newspapers and other media. Is now a good opportunity to reach a lot of people and tell our personal stories and...

Can't export this video, but the gist of the Taiwanese handling of the virus is here http://www.dailymirror.lk/opinion/Is-Taiwans-impressive-response-to-COVID-19-possible-in-Sri-Lanka/172-185720

I wore a mask when I opened the door to my place when I got my groceries delivered three weeks ago. I told the man (who was Asian) that "I have a cold" which I did. He said he appreciated it and wished more people would wear them. Possibly because it is routine in parts of Asia, especially...

How Taiwan handled the virus. We didn't hear much about it because China has forbidden mention of it, and they clout at WHO. http://www.dailymirror.lk/opinion/Is-Taiwans-impressive-response-to-COVID-19-possible-in-Sri-Lanka/172-185720

San Diego newspaper article quoted a researcher of bacteria and viruses from a university's oceanography department warning that the wind at the beach (way too many surfers and bikes, people) can force the virus up your nasal passages from beyond a 6 foot distancing metric. . Stay even farther...

Historical perspective (gleaned from the microbe.tv virology podcast, i.e. the organization Gideon). https://www.gideononline.com/blog/

The upregulation of sensory input to the somatosensory cortex for whatever reason, results more and more noxious sensation which feed more sensory inputs to that brain center resulting in a feedback loop. This phenomenon as well as a ton of other research articles about CSS exist on PUBMED...

Pain amplification in the spinal cord and brain = central sensitizaton. The relevance of the term, theory, framework, whatever you call it is there. See article written for fibro patients in 1999 or so by Dr. Robert Bennet of OHSC emeritus...

As far as I know (and that is little) is it an hypothesis only.

Of the three authors of the paper, one has a PhD, the other two are physical therapists. They don't have the necessary scientific or medical credentials to pontificate on these hypotheses. I was grateful back in the late 1990s for any research, any hypothesis about fibro. Yunus was a hero to...

According to the head of the Chinese center for disease control (a corona virus researcher with impeccable credentials: Oxford, Harvard) said that the biggest mistake the West is making is not wearing masks. He said: The big mistake in the U.S. and Europe, in my opinion, is that people aren’t...