Another example of claim of a 'cure' - Reverse Therapy and Mickel Therapy

[Sly Saint]

one for trading standards?
@Russell Fleming

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

Myalgic Encephalomyelitis.

Fibromyalgia.

The long awaited cure.

eta:
The reason I posted this is because it explicitly says on the website

"The long awaited cure."


http://www.mickeltherapy.com/

Mod note: The link no longer works.

 

[Invisible Woman]

Yeah, there was a documentary a few years ago in which the Mickel therapy featured. Nasim Marie Jafrie was in too (she wasn't supportive of Mickel but was giving general background).

edit - link to MEA page about the documentary with links to it. The documentary itself is in two parts -

https://www.meassociation.org.uk/20...ss-programme-link-to-watch-it-again-facility/

 

[Amw66]

I have a friend with CF who spent a fortune last year on Mickel therapy.

She no longer has CF, but remains tired and limited. Sound familiar?

 

[ladycatlover]

I wrote about Mickel therapy back in 2007. It's possible not all the links will work now.

http://liverpool-leftovers.blogspot.com/2007/01/how-to-part-patients-from-their-money.html

 

[rvallee]

Skimming through it and it's basically the same content as the NHS-IAPT/FND, mind-body stuff. Which makes sense, when medical authorities make stuff up it's only natural for people whose job also happens to be making stuff up will just use it as is since it's basically accepted as valid clinical evidence.

Seriously check it out, it's roughly the same content as what IAPT teaches about ME. It's basically identical to what Chalder, Sharpe and the rest have been saying, just adapted as a commercial product.

So now alternative medicine simply has to copy-paste from "clinical evidence" and sell their own branded pseudoscience. Is there even a line between alternative medicine and actual medicine anymore? There isn't even a need to modify the content, it's already ready-made for a pseudoscience belief system, it literally was created this way.

Good job, BPS people. Not only are you preparing the ground for the golden age of medical pseudoscience, it will literally use your own stuff in the process! Ain't that great? IAPT is basically a white label commercial pseudoscience factory. Now that is a mindbender.

 

[Cfs2222]

one for trading standards?
@Russell Fleming



eta:
The reason I posted this is because it explicitly says on the website

"The long awaited cure."


http://www.mickeltherapy.com/

You can read the book for free here


https://intuitivehealth.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Mickel-Book-on-CFS.pdf

 

[rvallee]

You can read the book for free here


https://intuitivehealth.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Mickel-Book-on-CFS.pdf

Skimming a bit and, yeah, it's a bunch of woo. The kind that Sharpe would love, though, pretty big on the mind-body crap. Pretty much the same tripe as every other tripe, though.

 

[Trish]

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[Milo]

There is truly a market for desperate people. The claims of recovery can be marketed. It can be a therapy, a device that is sold or rented, it can be a diet, supplements. It could also be a diagnostic test (live blood analysis, anyone? hair testing?). It’s been going on for decades.

 

[Sly Saint]

Elgin GP tackles waiting times with online practice
By In Partnership with Mickel Health Remote Private GP Service

The idea of private healthcare can be a little daunting, but at the same time, prolonged waiting for an appointment with your NHS doctor can leave you frustrated and anxious. It can sometimes feel that there isn’t much in the way of choice when it comes to accessing GP services.
That’s why Dr. David Mickel, a GP in Elgin, has launched a new remote private GP service. It offers online GP appointments bookable via a website, with quick availability and the choice for patients to be referred on for either NHS or private treatment if required.

Working as a doctor for 27 years, Dr. Mickel shared the frustration of people experiencing difficulties accessing NHS Primary Care services, and decided there should be a more effective way for the general public to access GP services.

With almost three decades of front-line medical experience under his belt, Dr. Mickel is also known for establishing a specialist treatment for those suffering from ME and chronic fatigue syndrome, known as Mickel Therapy.

Launched 20 years ago, Dr, Mickel has trained practitioners all over the world in this specialist therapy that can transform the lives of ME and chronic fatigue syndrome sufferers

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/f...p-tackles-waiting-times-with-online-practice/

 

[Ash]

“daunting”

Really?

So not something most ordinary people can’t afford?

Sick people well…
Sick pay isn’t generous
Social Security neither, almost impossible to access or meagre in the extreme or both.

But I’m sure everyone is just feeling “daunted”. If the guy selling you this product say so , it must be so.

And I’d put away any concerns you may have about the dismantlement and looting of public assets or the erosion and landslide that’s taking with it the principle of care free at the point of use. A concept of healthcare that includes people you’ve already made poor, no one should be made poor to begin with but here we are,

‘Oh no, don’t worry your everyday person head about that. You’ve got enough on your plate. We will sort the details out later.You leave that to us’

Don’t worry about redistribution of resources for the profit and gain of a few. That’s for later too.

‘Just deal with your feelings of daunt. We can all only do what we can do. All any of us can do I’m afraid.’

We haven’t got our big bat and smashed up your hopes and dreams of access to healthcare only to blackmail you into buying back to fragments, would we not such a thing? Oh no-Something something…. Counter productive… Misinterpreted our mission … Complex problems… No single factor…Solution focused solutions…- course not!!!