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National Geographic: Can this 19th-century health practice help with long COVID? https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/can-this-19th-century-health-practice-help-with-long-covid Doctors used to swear by the slow recovery period known as convalescence. Some experts say embracing it...

It's a bit hard to interpret the way it's written, but it's possible that she's newly joining it: I took the first interpretation when I read it, but I'm not sure which it is.

That's what I was thinking of, wasn't sure if it had been updated since. I think it was supposed to be a "living guideline"? Coma is technically alive.

How can they "have to take" an approach that is already the standard that failed Long Covid to begin with? It's literally because of a BPS approach that medicine has nothing but a BPS approach to offer to Long Covid. It's what's failed since the beginning. And the solution is to "take a BPS...

Genius level thinking: people on disability are sicker on average than people who aren't, therefore if we eliminate disability benefits, fewer people will be recorded as ill. Also: eliminate hospitals, way too many people die there, clearly massive death traps. Which is technically accurate...

Two of us have pointed this hypocrisy to them on Twitter. I don't expect any response but they are showing how EBM is all about eminence, they only respond to vague allusions from a visible "expert", while ignoring substantial criticism from invisible people. It's all about the size of the...

Ugh. The iron law of institutions strikes again: The people who control institutions care first and foremost about their power within the institution rather than the power of the institution itself. Thus, they would rather the institution "fail" while they remain in power within the institution...

Wasn't there a recent study on this, in Long Covid I think, that looked at differences in mitochondria and found that differences in membrane potential were the only significant finding? Highly possible I'm mixing things. So much research, so little of it memorable.

The lead author, highlighting in their own words what they think are the main points:

It's a review, whose purpose is to promote a particular treatment? That doesn't sound like a review. Sounds like an ad. It's also a lie to say that there is neuroimaging evidence supporting this has anything to do with "emotional processing". Just arguing for a preferred explanation is the...

Pretty much literally: we worked a lot on this so you will take it or leave it. What does it matter that it was evaluated more than anything else? It's useless. In fact it's been way over-evaluated, literally hundreds of identical attempts of the same thing, all showing the same: inconclusive...

I don't think the substance matters as much as who put their name to it, what institutional reputation they can boast about. As long as the substance is accurate, it's probably good enough. So anything by the most official sources, the rest will probably not even be skimmed. Doctors are swamped...

I've been very unimpressed by what this Independent SAGE have produced. Generally hostile to anything that doesn't explicitly limit LC to being an entirely new phenomenon, very little ability to learn from new information. Figures, Greenhalgh is on it. But they've just added new members that...

This BPS-focused questionnaire is open to everyone with a long-term chronic illness. Its explicit aim is to build support for a BPS approach to LC. You know what to do: answer honestly. It's short, about 5-10 minutes. Mod note: This post has been copied to start a new thread: University of...

Copied from the Long Covid thread This BPS-focused questionnaire is open to everyone with a long-term chronic illness. Its explicit aim is to build support for a BPS approach to LC. You know what to do: answer honestly. It's short, about 5-10 minutes.

I was not aware that NICE published LC guidelines. I know NICE produced preliminary early stuff a while ago, but to call this a guideline is really stretching the definition of many things. It's actually surprising that they haven't done anything since then, seems to have a wait-and-see approach...

It's certainly true of the 2007 guidelines. That was an ideologically-driven mess. Very corrupt and a good thing it got somewhat corrected. The increased activity on social media by long haulers is really not giving him a good day. What a tool. I assume this will only increase his victimhood...

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Gaslighting 101: I downloaded the document, just in case. Note the date, no one can claim this was developed for Long Covid. Healthcare systems are keeping a separation with ME, while explicitly using the same guidelines. Complete lack of integrity. It explicitly instructs to diagnose...

The presidential memo on Long Covid instructs the Secretary of Health and human services to lead a task force. This is the US Secretary of HHS: