exercise

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...

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...

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

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

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

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/

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

Rigorous exercise does not halt dementia decline, study concludes Keeping active helps prevent the onset of dementia, but once the disease has taken hold, working out more does nothing to slow its progress Guardian article available @...

Old, 2nd Oct 2017, article. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/10/02/554369327/for-people-with-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-more-exercise-isnt-better Linked to from a recently found Reader's Digest article on 'Fitness Myths' -...

Good to see mainstream media no longer pushing graded exercise, and even pointing out harms. Nice jab at the CDC's decades of negligence. Now if they would just stop calling it "chronic fatigue syndrome". :emoji_bicyclist::emoji_cartwheel::emoji_lifter::emoji_skier::dead: 50 Fitness Myths That...

In an article discussing whether to excercise while ill (generally not; it won’t help, will infect others, and sometimes make you worse, the article advises, but says Mayo Clinic says it’s ok to expose your gym to a head cold—let’s hope there’s no one there with leukemia or on anti rejection...

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...

The Herald: ME sufferers welcome 'unreliable' stamp on exercise report http://www.heraldseries.co.uk/news/16115734.ME_sufferers_welcome_criticism_of_report_that_told_them_to__exercise_more_/

This article highlights how, for patients with illnesses that don't trigger PEM, even relatively small amounts of activity is beneficial. In my opinion, for patients with ME, this should be turned about, even relatively small amounts of seemingly innocuous activity are potentially harmful...

Kegan J. Moneghetti, Mehdi Skhiri, Kévin Contrepois, Yukari Kobayashi, Holden Maecker, Mark Davis, Michael Snyder, François Haddad & Jose G. Montoya https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-20941-w

Just came across this study that looks at the relationship between exercise and inflammation. Interesting for our purposes was that there is an increase in the levels of a whole host of inflammatory cytokines immediately after strenuous exercise. It occurred to me that in PwMEs, these...

Chronic fatigue syndrome is NOT all in the mind - but caused by changes in brain chemistry, a study finds "Spinal taps before exercise showed miRNA levels were the same in all participants suffering from chronic fatigue, Gulf War Illness and a control group. But chronic fatigue syndrome...

Exercise – induced changes in cerebrospinal fluid miRNAs in Gulf War Illness, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and sedentary control subjects https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-15383-9 By James Baraniuk and Narayan Shivapurkar.

Published back in August but I didn't notice it then. Small pilot study. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1111/cpf.12460/abstract

For What It Is Worth: From: Dr. Marc-Alexander Fluks Subject: URL: Exercise as it relates to Disease - ME/CFS/FM Fact Sheets 2017 Source: WikiBooks / 2017 Wiki Fact Sheets Date: September 23, 2017 URL: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Exercise_as_it_relates_to_Disease...