Gravity-induced exercise intervention in an individual with CFS/ME and POTS, 2019, Ballantine, Srassheim, Newton

Gravity sucks.

 

I am against it.

If it wasn't for gravity we not only wouldn't have unemployment we also wouldn't have war, taxes, kale, global warming, poverty or malaria carriers like mosquitos.

 

Not with that attitude.

At least they didn't try antimatter therapy. That would have been explosive.

 

Gravity is a well-known cause of misery. It is known.

 

More information can be found in this dissertation by the author:

www.slideshare.net/RobertBallantine/dissertation-final-2408-rab

 

That’s a bit like the saying about hospitals - that they would run perfectly if there weren’t any patients....

 

It seems as though the idea is that the autonomic response to changes in position can become deconditioned due to its disuse in people who stay off their feet (or experience extended weightlessness). The exercises seem intended to challenge the ANS with uncommon situations, as when the head is lower than the heart such that the blood leaving the brain must be pumped upward against the force of gravity. I'm guessing that challenges like this are intended to make the overall autonomic response to positional change more robust, thus ameliorating POTS symptoms when standing.

The idea that the nervous system's autonomic response itself can become decondtioned might not be the same thing as saying that the muscle fibers that implement that response have become deconditioned.



Of course, you have to take into account that everything I know about gravity I learned from Sandra Bullock.

 

I think they have to explain how that is achieved the journey from bed to a journey to where the classes are held. What they mean by bedbound and why they were bedbound.

This does explain PEM and that is a big mistake (as always), why and how PEM exists before they try and treat someone with CFS/ME as they call it is advisable?

Why is explaining PEM important because the delay of onset of symptoms is not the beginning of PEM. The two day elation some patients find when they have done an activity including cognitive needs to be expressed as "Boom and Bust" is not a good enough understanding. So if participant had read the newspaper and then done the exercises that would be different to just doing the exercises and not thinking for the next 4-5 days.

PEM has little to do with symptoms and everything to do with the changes that goes on when you call for energy and that means thinking or digesting food. They are not taking life into consideration either. The more you do the more you need a shower.

Talking about a baseline also shows they understand nothing about PEM so no understanding of ME as for CFS well anyone can be put under that banner.

In my experience doing more does not mean living better as Emma Shorter explains

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyihXLvz1hY

So there must be a measure of feet on the floor in an upright position hours counted symptom free to make sure life is getting easier and sustainable.

 

For all those that ask about anti gravity exercising means these are the swings that you exercise on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-F6_WVyBxQ

I am not going to say another word and this is an anti-gravity treadmill

 

Another thing I thought was weird is that baseline measurements of heart rate were taken in 2013 and then there's a big gap until 2016 when improvement is noted. My POTS has also improved significantly in that time period with no gravity exercise intervention at all.

 

I hope they've remembered to patent exercise 5 of their novel intervention. It would be a travesty if someone else got in there first and made a fortune from it.

 

I've been laughing my head off since yesterday at that CRESTA Fatigue Clinic anti-gravity document. I know its not funny because this kind of nonsense could be causing real harm to the luckless sods who end up being treated at that clinic (and it does look like it did cause problems for the poor woman in the intervention in the paper). And they're sending students out into the world believing that lying down or standing up from a sitting position changes the way that spacetime curves around objects, which is a bit frightening.

But it's still pretty funny.

 

Wait til you get to the photo of the astronauts.

 

Yep. It only seems to mention fatigue, but it mentions all the catch words needed to associate it with CFS. I can see that there may be people unable to manage their own fatigue who might possibly be helped by this. It has no relevance to CFS and less to ME, but it is clearly intended to cater for them.