The Dangers of Crowdsourced 'Cures' for Long COVID—Medpage

[Jaybee00]

Opinion | The Dangers of Crowdsourced 'Cures' for Long COVID

Stop letting social media dictate care

www.medpagetoday.com

Of course, a simple Google search turns up the doc who wrote this opinion piece treats Long Covid related mitochondrial dysfunction with graded exercise therapy.

 

[Peter T]

This illustrates that the management of some conditions shouldn’t be left to an unknown number of medical professionals. If crowd funding is for genuine ethically approved research then it is infinitely better than individual medics pursuing unevidenced personal fads, something we see far too often with post viral conditions, including ME/CFS and Long Covid.

(To state the obvious) A significant proportion of people with Long Covid also display the symptoms of ME/CFS which includes Post Exertional Malaise for which any form of graded exercise therapy is counter indicated and specifically prohibited by the UK’s body NICE.

 

[Utsikt]

Groysman is notorious in the LC circles, he has digital consultations and recommend e.g. nicotine patches, stellate ganglion blocks, LDN and other usual suspects.

He has a facebook group where you’re only supposed to discuss success stories.

He is the last person that should be calling out others for providing unfounded treatments and echo chambers.

Here’s his website:

Long Covid Solutions in Dallas, TX | Dr. Robert Groysman

Dr. Groysman specializes in Long Covid treatment and addressing root causes in Dallas, TX. Explore innovative solutions at Southwest Pain Management.

covidinstitute.org

 

[Trish]

I read the article before reading anything about the author. As soon as I got to the bit where he claimed he could diagnose and treat a list of different subsets of patients, I thought, quack touting for business.