Great to see the use of an ME/CFS criteria. Shame about the fatigue scale.
Those seem to be extraordinary improvements, especially in the walking distance. That one doesn't seem that likely to me. I wonder about the...
I agree to some extent @rvallee, but they delivered this intervention for 6 months. I'm not entirely sure about dropouts, but they report a 75%...
This study does not prove that the people in the programme increased their physical activity or their fitness. It provides some evidence that...
Psychosocial measures So, a psychosocial benefit really seems to be the best they have got from what surely must have been a rather expensive...
Onto Table 3 The only physical outcome measure on this table that had a significant post-between group P value was the sit-reach test. This is a...
So, most of these participants were already doing some physical activity beyond essential daily activities. The weight and BMI both increased in...
I suppose that is something. And good that the trial was 6 months long. 15 controls and 17 intervention - small sample size
It is a big problem that we can't point to anything definitive on the issue of repeated PEM causing long lasting/permanent deterioration. We have...
Thanks very much @Martine, for providing the impetus for the translation project, and for doing the work on this first one.
Yes, the option was PEM or PEF.
It is close to requiring PEM, but not quite Post-exertional fatigue is an option, and, given it does not need to be delayed, it is a pretty loose...
As we make Science for Fact Sheets in English, we will call for volunteers to make a draft translation into French. When a draft translation is...
And that may be one of the better outcomes. We know people suicide, and attempt it, because they can't reconcile what they are told about being...
If you want to organise/fund a good quality investigation of whether ibuprofen makes a meaningful difference to ME/CFS symptoms, I'm sure many of...
I have at times tracked symptoms with an ibuprofen trial, after noticing that ibuprofen seemed to help. I think it does reduce my symptoms,...
I guess the fact that some people do keep active pretty much blows away the idea that it is the way we think about exertion that is holding us...
Of course, it depends how you define a brain retraining course. CBT is pretty much that, but has the benefit of being medical mainstream. Many...
Given what we have seen, it's likely that among the members of a recovery group there will be * the exploiters Someone has decided to knowingly...
Someone's got to say it though, it's unblinded and that level of change in outcomes is consistent with a placebo. I hope it is really doing...
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