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They are really struggling to let go of the deconditioning myth. Understandable, as it is a central assumption for psycho-behavioural paradigm. But that is no excuse. If it is wrong – and it is – then out it goes. We would probably get much more informative results if they kept up the daily...

And sometimes not even that.

Innovative pedagogical approaches may help address these gaps. Funny way to spell ideological propaganda. The flood of papers in recent years focused on how to better market their 'product' is revealing. If their product was good they would not need to flog it so hard, and invent excuses as to...

Yes, they understand it enough to rig it in their favour. They are also quick to point out the methodological weaknesses in biomed studies, thus demonstrating that they know what they are doing.

‘Finally Awakened’ comes out on Amazon on 21 April Because of course she has something to sell. :cautious:

Selective use of diagnostic criteria, (including arbitrary modifications to them, thus making the results hard to compare with other studies - see PACE). Lack of long-term follow-up.

Well, the identify and quantify bits are okay, the 'understand' bit is worrying.

The aim is to identify, understand and quantify people’s symptoms and disabilities. No in principle problem with this bit, though it is hardly novel or insightful. It will support goal setting, treatment planning, and monitor changes. Massive problem with the first two of those. Goal setting...

"Misdiagnoses of FND are rare and the effects are likely minimal" the authors say. :rolleyes:

It was never going to turn out any other way, was it.

It's nuts isn't it. The 'reasoning', as with so many claims in this field, seems to basically boil down to the symptom and/or the resultant behavioural changes are the cause the symptom, that the phenomenon is its own cause. Nobody is suggesting that non-restorative sleep is helping nor that...

Or admit they got nothing useful to offer, at this stage, beyond diagnosis and generic support and medical care. This is one of those issues where we simply don't have a good handle on it. It is quite possible all cases are infectious onset, but in some cases the initial infection is very...

I almost never went to the doctor in the 20 years before I got sick, and always for routine or obvious stuff like vaccinations, needing 2-3 stitches in my hand and in my head on another occasion, antibiotics every so often for a chest infection from a flu, a sick note once or twice a year (not...

Welcome to the club! :hug:

The question being: is the problem with the compensatory mechanism itself, or is it elsewhere in the body which is in turn imposing demands on the compensatory mechanism that are beyond its capacity to counteract?

Speakers include sociologists, historians, anthropologists, Unfortunately with these guys it can cut both ways. They can do good, or harm.

That would be because it doesn't contain any. It just doesn't add up. It really is that simple. Yet it thrives. At our expense.

Social Prescribing - The perfect excuse for medicine and governments to stop investigating and caring.

A work of pure fiction about patients, soaked through with truisms, platitudes, and bigotry. It describes nothing more than the self-serving excuse-generating fairy tale in the author's head.

Interpreting these symptoms within a biopsychosocial framework may facilitate understanding of the complex nature of the disease and optimize the use of digital technologies for monitoring cognitive dysfunction and supporting patient-centered care in ME/CFS. That 'may' is doing an awful lot of...