I imagine this happens with ME/CFS also
https://gavinpublishers.com/articles/review-article/Journal-of-Nursing-and-Womens-Health/healthcare-educational-practices-on-stigmatism-of-chronic-illness-a-qualitative-narrative-study
Being a sceptic myself, I can understand some questioning: it would be useful if we had a better understanding of how exercise might be harmful in the long term, as opposed to any short-term effects.
They paid for this paper to be open access:
Can patients with chronic fatigue syndrome really recover after graded exercise or cognitive behavioural therapy? A critical commentary and preliminary re-analysis of the PACE trial
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21641846.2017.1259724...
I wonder is anything interesting among these, perhaps particularly from Trudie Chalder?
https://bmcneurol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12883-019-1468-2/peer-review
This is that the only table of data in the paper, apart from one giving demographic information:
It's interesting to see the relatively low numbers of (apparently) "healthy controls" who satisfied the Institute of Medicine criteria, and that the figures are lower than for the Canadian ME/CFS...
Yeah.
I suspect the requirement of a 50% reduction one sometimes hears may not be appropriate, at least in a clinical setting (stricter criteria for research studies can be justified).
The paper doesn’t mention that with changing times, more people will have data from actometers of one sort or another. These in theory could provide a baseline against which current activity levels might be compared.
Another thing that some people, probably more women than men, would be conscious of is body hair. Some may feel they need to shave their legs, etc. before going to a public swimming pool which could be an extra chore.
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