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https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/04/05/597505825/report-ineffective-treatment-often-prescribed-for-lower-back-pain Wherein The Lancet, Cochrane, O.H.S.U., and University of Washington tout C.B.T. and lament how rarely it’s used. K, Medicaid and Medicare aren’t covering...

Graded Exercise Therapy, at least in the UK, comes with the advice that 'Boom & Bust' cycles of activity are an obstacle to the rehabilitation of the MECFS patient. After a week of Vøgt retweets in my twitter feed, I thought it would be productive to explore an idea from psychiatry that might...

New Crawley publication in the journal Pediatric Health, Medicine and Therapeutics. https://www.dovepress.com/pediatric-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-current-perspectives-peer-reviewed-article-PHMT Edit: Fixed a mistyped date.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csvsy8 Interesting 23-minute podcast touching on a lot of issues relevant to the BPS brigade and ME research, although they aren't mentioned, and the problems seem a lot more widespread than just our little corner.

From July 2017 with brief background, bullet points and references: http://www.investinme.org/Documents/Fact%20Sheets/Invest%20in%20ME%20Research%20-%20Flaws%20in%20BPS%20Theory%20for%20ME%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf

Ugh, as i checked the headlines this morning i was greeted by a large photo of Prof Sir Simon smiling with Kate.... right above an article declaring that "Gps too soft on back pain", bemoaning the painkillers & surgery given out, when really pwback pain need psychosocial treatments of therapy &...

Free full text: https://bmcpsychology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40359-018-0218-3

Source: Archives of Disease in Childhood Vol 103, Suppl 1, G13 Date: March 2018 URL: http://adc.bmj.com/content/103/Suppl_1/A5.3 Prevalence and correlates of low mood, poor quality of life and high symptom impact in adolescents attending a tertiary service for chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic...

A step towards a new delimitation of functional somatic syndromes: A latent class analysis of symptoms in a population-based cohort study 2018 Marie Eliasen, Andreas Schröder, Per Fink, Svend Kreiner, Thomas Meinertz Dantoft, Chalotte Heinsvig Poulsen, Marie Weinreich Petersen, Lene Falgaard...

Behav Sci (Basel). 2017 Aug 11;7(3). pii: E52. doi: 10.3390/bs7030052. FITNET's Internet-Based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Is Ineffective and May Impede Natural Recovery in Adolescents with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. A Review. Ghatineh S1, Vink M2. Author information...

A coalition of parents and other carers to children and adolescents with ME has written a letter to the Norwegian Directorate of Health about the national centre of excellence for CFS/ME. The centre has a biopsychosocial approach to ME, and the parents give several examples of how this view is...

The PRIME project: developing a patient evidence‐base Sophie Staniszewska, DPhil (Oxon) BSc (Hons), 1 Sally Crowe, Post Graduate Diploma, 2 Douglas Badenoch, MSc, 3 Carol Edwards, BA MSc PhD, 4 Jan Savage, RN BSc (Hons) PhD, 5 and Will Norman, PhD MA (Hons) 6 Acknowledgements We are grateful...

Raised on another thread. https://dpac.uk.net/2018/02/protest-against-iapt-therapies/ I have mixed feelings about this. "The Alliance for Counselling and Psychotherapy has organised a demo at the New Savoy conference again this year. The New Savoy Conference is the annual gathering of...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29471861 https://trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13063-018-2500-3

In the debate on the PACE trial yesterday, the Cochrane review was again cited as validation of the PACE trial results ".........scientists as part of normal research collaboration, including the internationally respected research organisation Cochrane, which independently validated the...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29455899 http://www.jpsychores.com/article/S0022-3999(17)31032-2/fulltext

Free full text at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320111650_The_economic_burden_of_chronic_fatigue_myalgic

Is it just me or are they more honest about their views than usual? I'm not 100% sure how to interpret this but it sounds like they may have shown that fatigued people put in less effort, and believe they are more limited in their activities. This is then interpreted as the beliefs causing...

Free full text: Activity pacing: moving beyond taking breaks & slowing down https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11136-018-1794-7 It's interesting to see how "activity pacing" is now being defined by some in a way that could cause problems for some people with ME/CFS...

This looks annoying and worthless: http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/7/5/e014133 Wow, they've really taken the time to understand this straw-man of why patients are concerned about the promotion of CBT/GET: I'm mainly posting this because it says: I'm not sure that this organisation would...