Problem Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME)/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) severely impacts the quality of life of sufferers. Most ME/CFS patients will...
Abstract Background NHS specialist chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS/ME) services in England treat approximately 8000 adult patients each year....
[MEDIA] Proponents of cognitive behavior therapy and graded exercise therapy as treatments for CFS, ME, or their variants keep trotting out their...
Thought this was an interesting editorial. It's from 2004 but is still relevant. The history of medicine is replete with examples of treatments...
Free full text: https://gredos.usal.es/bitstream/handle/10366/143718/TFG_PoloFerrandez_EjercicioFatiga.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y From: Dr....
Please email your MP and ask them to write to Matt Hancock, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care calling on him to: Request NICE adds...
https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/gid-ng10091/documents/interim-findings-2 "NICE is aware of concerns about graded exercise therapy (GET) for...
I realise that this is hardly news but thought it worth a reread as Chalder and Butler in a 1989 MEA newsletter considered it one of the two...
BACKGROUND: Cochrane recently amended its exercise review for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) in response to an...
Mod note: The reply by Lubet and Tuller was in response to an article by Sharpe and Greco, discussed here: Michael Sharpe: Mind, Medicine and...
"On the trail of a less inflamed ME debate." Clinical psychogist Grete Lilledalen about ME and CBT/GET. Well worth the read and share! "We must...
This post and the following one have been moved or copied from this thread. Oooooo...! [MEDIA]...
Background: Cognitive function disturbance is a frequently described symptom of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). In...
It is not needed to go to third parties analysis to find the glaring errors. Quoting something I wrote for other purposes. The PACE trial was the...
I haven't seen this posted. It's a personal account by a UK pwME who participated in a study, pre-PACE, using GET/CBT. Very unfortunately, and...
I've written a blog post about the recent amendment to the Cochrane review and how it doesn't address the major flaws. I will post the full text...
Following discussion on this thread I have now sent the following personal letter to Sonya Chowdhury, Chief Executive of the UK charity Action for...
I thought it might be useful to get an overview of medical guidelines on ME/CFS that have been influenced by the Cochrane review on graded...
In case it's of interest to anybody Free full text: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0284186X.2019.1659513 Original Article...
Corsius et al. (2019). Zorg voor betere behandeling bij ME. Enquête onder ME-patiënten naar hun ervaringen met behandelingen bij ME. A new...
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