Do graded activity therapies cause harm in chronic fatigue syndrome? (Kindlon, 2017)

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  1. Tom Kindlon

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    It's the 2-year anniversary of this open access paper of mine, so I'm giving it a plug in a few places.

    It could be useful if there is any suggestion that somebody should be coerced into doing graded activity or exercise programmes; also to counter claims that the PACE Trial showed graded activity programs are safe.

    The word limit for the abstract was 100 words, so I couldn't say as much as I would have liked.

    I would have liked to have mentioned the PACE trial in the title as a lot of the focus was the harms reporting in the PACE Trial but the journal's editor wanted something shorter.

    https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1359105317697323


     
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    Esther12 Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    All those papers were two years ago? That's such a long time. Progress since then feels so slow!

    Thanks for all your work. This was a really useful paper on a difficult topic.
     
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    Thank you for doing such amazing work and not giving up !
     
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    Solid and scientifically sound criticism of the reporting of harm in GET trials. As always, it is a pleasure to read your papers, Tom! :thumbup:
     
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    I have actually used the original paper when someone was considering recommending GET for me. I think they felt I had little to lose by trying it but the paper made them think again.

    Thank you @Tom Kindlon :thumbup:
     
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    maybe someone could enlighten the author of this blog:
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    https://medium.com/@djsan77/6-long-term-negative-effects-of-lack-of-physical-activity-b4970374d40b
     
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