exercise

  1. Trish

    NICE guidelines - Evidence of harm from Graded Exercise therapy

    This thread is intended for collecting evidence of harms from GET and other therapies that involve increasing activity and/or exercise. Particularly useful would be any research demonstrating either that GET has directly caused harm, or that research on GET that claims no harm has not properly...
  2. W

    FWIW: Apparently “Exercise is Medicine” could be funded by... Coca-Cola?

    Of all the confusing places to find this information, I found it on another exercise -is-medicine industry, CrossFit. (though they want to add diet to exercise, but still are excluding/ignoring actual medications, the need for continuing medical research, and public health efforts like housing...
  3. RuthT

    Cochrane Exercise Review Withdrawn - Individual Patient Data

    It looks to me like this has actually happened- not sure if I can quite believe it. Link: https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD011040.pub2/full
  4. Peter T

    Caroline Struthers' correspondence and blog on the Cochrane Review: 'Exercise therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome, 2017 and 2019, Larun et al.

    Caroline Struthers' letter to Cochrane Governing Board I noticed on Anil about ME's Facebook page the following link: https://healthycontrolblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/29/my-complaint-to-the-cochrane-governing-board-about-the-cochrane-review-of-exercise-for-chronic-fatigue-syndrome/ Caroline...
  5. Andy

    Verification of exercise-induced transient postural tachycardia phenotype in Gulf War Illness, 2018, Garner, Rayhan and Baraniuk

    Open access at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6220213/
  6. Alvin

    No Such Thing as Too Much Exercise, Study Finds

    They obviously know nothing about ME https://gizmodo.com/no-such-thing-as-too-much-exercise-study-finds-1829874676 I only skimmed the first couple paragraphs
  7. M

    Exercise-induce hyperalgesia, complement system and elastase activation in ME/cfs - a secondary analysis (2018) Polli et al

    Exercise-induce hyperalgesia, complement system and elastase activation in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - a secondary analysis of experimental comparative studies Polli A1, Van Oosterwijck J2,3, Meeus M3,4, Lambrecht L5, Nijs J6, Ickmans K6. Author information 1 Pain in...
  8. A

    NHS video Pilates for CFS (not a recommendation)

    https://www.nhs.uk/video/Pages/ms-cfs-chronicpain-fibromyalgia.aspx Found this on the NHS website. I wondered whether anyone knew how this can be justified and where it came from? I also think there should be some lobbying as part of the NICE guideline review to raise this as an issue along...
  9. Sly Saint

    (not a recommendation) What if exercise makes you worse?

    I was surprised to find this article posted on the ME/CFS Australia (SA) Inc site: http://www.sacfs.asn.au/ Sep 18, 2018 by Ernie Schramayr Hamilton Spectator " Exercise leads to a release of “feel good” hormones that makes most people feel energized, clear headed, invigorated. ............"...
  10. Cheshire

    Cumbersome Cochrane Report (About ME/CFS Cochrane review)

    In Dagens Medicine by Benedikte Monrad-Krohn Article Google translate
  11. Hip

    Name and shame list of institutions and psychiatrists/psychologists/pediatricians coercing exercise therapy on unwilling ME/CFS patients

    A few years ago I had the idea of starting up a website in which hospitals, institutions or individual psychiatrists and psychologists who coerce exercise therapy upon unwilling ME/CFS patients could be named and shamed. I was just recently reminded of the idea after reading this thread of an...
  12. Dolphin

    Bridging Exercise Science, Cognitive Psychology, and Medical Practice: Is “Cognitive Fatigue” a Remake of “The Emperor’s New Clothes”?

    The full text of this is now available: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01246/full I'll leave it to others to decide whether there is anything of use in this or alternatively, if there is anything particularly problematic.
  13. R

    The CFS deconditioning hypothesis

    Note from the moderators: The discussion in this thread is focussed on the BPS theory of deconditioning. There is another thread for discussing the issue raised in this post: Muscle atrophy ****************************** Hi Everyone My recent muscle biopsy of my thigh has led to what seems...
  14. Lucibee

    Investigating the origins of GET (graded exercise therapy)

    While reading the Ciba Foundation Symposium 173 papers (Wiley, 1993), I came across this quote from Peter White in one of the discussions (after Sharpe's presentation on Non-pharmacological treatments - p310): And thus, CBT/GET was born! However, I looked back at David McCluskey's...
  15. Sly Saint

    Cardiopulmonary Exercise Test Methodology for Assessing Exertion Intolerance in ME/CFS, 2018, Stevens et al

    Provisionally accepted. Cardiopulmonary Exercise Test Methodology for Assessing Exertion Intolerance in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Staci Stevens1, Chris Snell1, Jared Stevens1, Betsy keller2 and J. Mark VanNess3* 1Workwell Foundation, United States 2Department of...
  16. T

    Efficacy of Exercise Therapy in Persons with Burnout. A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    https://www.jssm.org/volume17/iss3/cap/jssm-17-475.pdf
  17. Andy

    Effects of a short-term aquatic exercise intervention on symptoms and exercise capacity in individuals with CFS/ME, 2018, Broadbent et al

    Paywalled at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00421-018-3913-0
  18. John Mac

    Stop Exercising for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Symptoms

    A good article on Your Care Everywhere website. https://www.yourcareeverywhere.com/health-research/health-insights/pain-care-insights/stop-exercising-for-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-symptoms.html
  19. Indigophoton

    Comparing Post-Exertional Symptoms Following Serial Exercise Tests, Mateo et al, 2018

    Mark VanNess, PhD presented at the annual meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine. Lariel Mateo presented at the University of the Pacific’s Undergraduate Research and Creativity Conference. http://www.workwellfoundation.org/research-and-latest-news/
  20. R

    Interview with Howard Bloom Where He Talks Extensively About Severe ME Viewed Over 500000 Times in 1st Day

    The long version of this clip where Howard Bloom recalls having severe ME has been viewed 500000 times in 1 day...
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