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According to the BBC: 'We will not means test or freeze Personal Independence Payment (Pip)'published at 13:14 13:14 Kendall continues by saying the government will not means test or freeze Personal Independence Payment (Pip). She says that instead claimants will need to score four points in...

:) It could be, 'Biopsychosocial practitioners' beliefs about the evidence base for and possible harms of their therapies for ME/CFS'.

Doesn't have to be the main proponents. I think any practitioner using these approaches would be appropriate interview subjects.

It's time that the tables were turned and that someone did an equivalent project interviewing BPS proponents about their understanding of the baselessness of their position and the damage they're inflicting people. Not kidding. This should genuinely be a project. Wondering how we could interest...

Unbelievable. Do these people never even once ask themselves how they'd like it?

So if you're sick but don't qualify for UC, you get your benefits cut. Outstanding.

I don't think they do have to be met for something to be considered a randomised trial. It's understood that you're simply randomising the selected population who are taking part in your trial.

Does anyone here routinely do the same sort of PubMEd/whoever search that NICE did, just to check out what's new? I'm wondering if we even know how many trials have been done since then. That review paper above is over a year old now.

I agree, and on a quick skim I'm a bit surprised to see this review taking pre-2021 studies as showing efficacy when NICE bombed them on quality grounds. It's surprisingly big on Ampligen. It's a pity that there's no handy up-to-date review that takes quality properly into account.

Not sure if I'm posting this question in the right place, but has there been a review of treatment RCTs in ME/CFS since the comprehensive review done for the NICE guidelines? Is there an easy way to find out what trials have been published since?

Wow. I hope this could be us, one day.

I used to like my perspex 'bridge' (just a rectangle of perspex resting on a couple of chairs, with me lying underneath between). It was a bit of an effort to lift a book to turn the page and put it back again but any physical book is going to have that issue if it's raised in any way while...

I'm sorry it was such a struggle, @PrairieLights. It's appalling that the form does ask the questions in the way that reflects the rules of entitlement, because they shouldn't ask 'Can you do X?' but 'Can you do X reliably?', with reliably meaning: For a descriptor to apply to a claimant they...

Can't really do ceiling works to suspend things but others will find these suggestions helpful! :thumbup:

Where has that been all my life??? :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

Yes, thanks, Denise! :thumbup:

A tantalising post of mystery!

I tried out a projector a few years ago but you have to have the room quite dark for them to work, and I don't want to be in the dark in the daytime. Pity, because it would have been handy!

I've looked into that lately but I still use Windows 10 and I don't think it's available. I'll have to switch to the latest version soon, though, because support for Windows 10 will end in October. But I still prefer to read. I don't take in information as well aurally and can't control the...

I have my head on a pillow ('totally flat' was an exaggeration!) but I don't want to risk doing dodgy things to my neck more than I already do (I do something similar to what you do if I'm semi-reclining).