Can we see in that register what the protocol at the time of the ethics approval was? It would be easy to adjust that % of the program completed...
So, the participants would have to have their phone on them all day? It's a little bit frightening. All the data gets stored in Germany somewhere.
I suppose they just keep on recruiting until they get enough people who can and do stick with the program. That's really terrible. That's a...
As far as I can see, the PatientConcept app is not an activity monitor. It's installed on a phone. It seems to act as a compliance and...
There is no reference for the two mentions of the WHO guidelines I have seen so far. It's not at all clear what the guidelines are for (general...
Here's the paper that the article refers to Perivascular glial reactivity is a feature of phosphorylated tau lesions in chronic traumatic...
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39921702/ Abstract Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a neurodegenerative disease associated with...
New Zealand scientists studying the brains of rugby players have made a significant breakthrough that could allow Chronic traumatic encephalopathy...
The usual problems, here's some: Lack of a homogenous sample (worse than the Fukuda 'CFS' problem - any persistent symptoms will do) Wait list...
Looking at Figure A in SNT's post #4, you can see the resting VO2 increasing over the time of the exercise test to the Vo2 peak. And then they...
Just to be clear, this isn't a reference to graded exercise therapy. This is the protocol used for the CPET, with the effort required to cycle...
and selection bias making the results useless.
Only quoting that for the acronym. Now that is a good one. Edit - and there's more:
Interesting, but I don't think it's very relevant to ME/CFS. It sounds as though delivering more of the odour particles to the now less sensitive...
On POTS: I've often heard it said that exercise is a treatment for postural orthostatic tachycardia, and we have been concerned that that leaves...
We have extensive coverage of the Cochrane Larun et al review on the forum. Regardless of whether it has a publication date of 2019 or 2024, it...
What does deconditioning look like? - ME/CFS Skeptic blog
On harms: Forum thread: Do graded activity therapies cause harm in chronic fatigue syndrome? (Kindlon, 2017)
Fair point, but I think it can be assumed that evidence that shows that exercise is not helpful is relevant to the question of whether exercise is...
We've got to get researchers to stratify their "Long Covid" samples into more descriptive subsets. This lumping is just hopeless.
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