United Kingdom: 'Dr Finlay's Clinic' for Long Covid, Dr Ben Sinclair

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They have got it right about the need for rest.

The rest of it - dietary changes - low histamine, gluten free, microclots, cold water therapy, red light therapy, are all anecdotal, and presented here as helping people, but not curative.

Is it quackery? It's certainly not evidence based, and much of the improvement individuals report could be natural improvement. But I think it's worth researching these treatments.
 
Someone sent me this link for it https://www.thetimes.com/article/1a...4?shareToken=7c4dbfedcf35f9b03f4faf2b0c5a27a0

Sinclair’s team are publishing a guide on how to support someone with long Covid. It will be available for schools and employers, and it will preach the slowly-slowly mantra.

“We have to educate organisations,” he says. “The reason children aren’t coming back to school or workers aren’t coming back to the office is not because they’re lazy. It’s because they can’t get out of bed. When you see them crawling around their house, you know this is not them just being workshy.”

“I’ve got people who are lying in darkened rooms for a year or more because they can’t cope with light or sound. The extreme end is really extreme, but there’s a mild end where we still need to take those people very seriously because they could get worse and become unfit and chronic.”
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Do we know what trial he's talking about here?


“I’m now getting people with ME coming to the long Covid clinic,” Sinclair says, noting the similarities in the two conditions. “We’re trying to help their mitochondria work better.” He shows me a sunbed-like machine he has just installed at the clinic. “It’s for red-light therapy. The light hits the mitochondria and stimulates an energy-producing and healing state.

“The ME population have been doing a trial with this machine in Birmingham and the evidence is that after only two 20-minute sessions a week for six weeks — 12 therapies — the person is better than baseline six months later. So this is a lasting effect, not a short-term effect. My instinct is that long Covid will be the same because it gets you back into a healing state.”
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JohnTheJack said:
Long Covid nearly broke me. Now I’m curing fellow sufferers
Matt Rudd

Dr Ben Sinclair, a super-fit GP, became so ill after contracting coronavirus he could barely move or talk. Now he has opened pioneering clinics fighting a disease that afflicts more than two million people in the UK.


(£)https://www.thetimes.com/life-style...e-me-now-im-curing-fellow-sufferers-8x9mr6b2p

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Advertorial for a quack.
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Is the “curing” part a direct quote or is it a headline tag?
 
No, he talks about things like lowering inflammation and getting people "back into a healing state", plus the importance of rest, but he doesn't claim cures. Various phrases like "some of Sinclair’s patients are seeing light at the end of the tunnel." etc.
 
He went into private practice as he couldn't cope with the pace of a NHS general practice. Nothing wrong with that. But compared to other private LC specialists he's seriously overpriced. Not sure this is the best way to help LC patients?! The curing bit is likely headline writers.
 
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