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  1. Sean

    Fear conditioning as a pathogenic mechanism in the postural tachycardia syndrome, Norcliffe-Kaufmann et al, 2022

    Interestingly, Wessely et al, and separately Bazelmans et al, showed in the mid-90s that hyperventilation is not an issue in ME (CFS). There was no association between level of functional impairment and degree of hyperventilation. There is only a weak association between hyperventilation and...
  2. Sean

    Your Book Review: Exhaustion Finalist #13 in the Book Review Contest

    I don't recognise this group of people.
  3. Sean

    Multidisciplinary rehabilitation treatment is not effective for ME/CFS: A review of the FatiGo trial, 2018, Vink & Vink-Niese

    Yes, those very weak numbers are the best possible case scenario. Which is an appalling fact.
  4. Sean

    Functional Neurological Symptom Disorder (FND) Leading to the Development of Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT), 2022, Othman et al

    FND is just an excuse for medical ignorance, and the profession's cowardice in facing up to that.
  5. Sean

    London Centre for Functional Medicine: Chronic fatigue

    Torture the words until they confess.
  6. Sean

    Long Covid in the media and social media 2022

    From our national public broadcaster. Message seems to be slowly getting out in Australia that this a long haul health problem. It is a more general article that discusses a wide range of issues, including the long term consequences of repeat reinfection, but not Long Covid specifically (IIRC)...
  7. Sean

    The Madness of Medically Unexplained Symptoms, 2021, Jenny van der Palen

    In other words, it is impossible that Sir Simon and his like-minded colleagues are wrong about ME, according to Sir Simon and his like-minded colleagues. It is psychopathology all the way down, no matter the label. It is the hallmark of their still unproven claim: Their utter certainty, from...
  8. Sean

    BMJ: Acting on historically offensive content in BMJ’s archive, 2022

    I also do not want any of it removed from the record, but instead flagged as not meeting minimum technical or ethical standards. Assessing history can't be done if the primary sources are disappeared.
  9. Sean

    Experiences of general practitioners explaining central sensitisation to patients with persistent physical symptoms:, 2022, den Boer et al

    Again, if you are having to concentrate so hard on the marketing, then your product probably stinks.
  10. Sean

    Study protocol for POSITIF, ... feasibility trial of a brief cognitive-behavioural intervention ... for post-stroke fatigue, 2020, Gillespie, Chalder

    Of 886 stroke survivors from three Scottish clinics invited to participate, only 76 ended up in the final sample—less than 10%. Of the 39 assigned to the intervention, only 23 (59%) attended at least four sessions; eight of the 39 attended no sessions. This is the sound of patients voting with...
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