Trial Report A Pilot Feasibility Study of the Effects of Color and Light Therapy for Patients with Chronic Fatigue/ME, 2024, Roseman-Halsband & Bested

[Dolphin]

https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/ict.2024.29116.jlr

Janet Lynn Roseman-Halsband and Alison C. Bested.A Pilot Feasibility Study of the Effects of Color and Light Therapy for Patients with Chronic Fatigue/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis.Integrative and Complementary Therapies.Feb 2024.14-19. http://doi.org/10.1089/ict.2024.29116.jlr

There is no sign of an abstract

 

[shak8]

Oh dear.

 

[Trish]

Best ignored I think. It's in an alt med journal.

 

[Creekside]

Coloured light therapy crap again??? It was proven useless and often harmful (by convincing people to not seek proper medical treatment) probably several times in the past. His "then it is logical that" is illogical.

There should be a list of "undead" treatments: silly pseudomedicine that keeps rising from the dead.


Why do I think that this "pilot study" will somehow end up showing positive results?

 

[Dolphin]

Alison Bested was a leading ME/CFS doctor in Canada a number of years ago. She then moved to Nancy Klimas’ INIM in Florida.

 

[Ash]

I think it sounds lovely. I could happily bathe in some pretty light rays.

Don’t @me if you all find out in about five minutes that this whole thing has a dark side.

 

[Kitty]

"I need to publish something, and I've already done the cranial massage, the electronic detox, and the happy app. Crystals, maybe? Oh, I know – nobody's done coloured light for ages."

 

[Trish]

It seems to be applying light to acupuncture points, not bathing the whole person in light.

 

[NelliePledge]

It seems to be applying light to acupuncture points, not bathing the whole person in light.

that’s taking it to a whole other level

 

[Peter T]

Did they control for the colours of the clothes participants wore during the trial period, what they watched on TV, how the rooms they frequent were decorated, etc? Did they do darkness controls? Perhaps they should monitor the auras of everyone the subjects came into contact with, including the researchers.

Or perhaps not, given the whole exercise is pointless.

 

[NelliePledge]

Alison Bested was a leading ME/CFS doctor in Canada a number of years ago. She then moved to Nancy Klimas’ INIM in Florida.

Well we know from her talk about pacing at one of the CDC dial in presentations in 2018 that she’s a big fan of “pretty water coloured memories of the way we were” from her attempt to get everyone singing.

 

[RedFox]

It seems to be applying light to acupuncture points, not bathing the whole person in light.

Acculighture.