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Had the same experience with playing snooker, which has added bending over at the table.

Do others think has there been shift in favour of ME being used more than CFS in the post-COVID coverage?

SNAP!

A more successful approach is to identify a level of exercise that the patient can tolerate, without causing prolonged pain or exhaustion, and use this as a baseline from which to progress.... A baseline level of aerobic activity can then be prescribed which will depend on the baseline...

No idea about the above rumour. But given Boris' age and weight I wouldn't be surprised if he isn't completely symptom-free yet.

Exactly. Where is the hard evidence that the surgery works? Or that the diagnosis is even correct? Excessive secrecy and intolerance of (fair) criticism is one of the major warning signs about any individual or group.

One of Wessely's early papers didn't find any evidence for a primary role for hyperventilation. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8140219/ "There was no association between level of functional impairment and degree of hyperventilation. There is only a weak association between hyperventilation...

Glad I don't have to make the call on that timing. :nailbiting:

Some just get a kick out of lording it over others. Makes them feel special and important and superior, that they are leaders, and their lives are more meaningful. It is a very powerful motivator.

It is beneficial to maximize the placebo effect when treating patients, Why? It is not. Far as I am concerned there is no robust evidence that the placebo/nocebo effect has any significant sustained effect, let alone a therapeutic one (in the case of placebo). The onus is very firmly on the...

The madness is endless.

Apparently I need to do Sumo squats. I guess that my arthritic hips are just a figment of the x-rays imagination.

This.

Sci-Hub is one of the greatest things to come out of the whole internet webbie thing. :thumbup:

There are a lot of active bad-faith players on social media, and they are not all just random idiots and ignorant arseholes who now have a global soap box to spew their prejudices and hatreds. I am talking high level, well resourced and organised, and deliberate manipulation and poisoning of...

Clearly we still have some way to go. :grumpy:

Ah, the fearless dogged investigative journalist. Or what passes for one in this age.

@Snowdrop This guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Gilbert I can't find the original source for it, but the quote is supposedly: “In my work with the defendants (at the Nuremberg Trails 1945-1949) I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining...

There was a guy sent by the US Army (?) to observe the Nuremberg trials and report back on what we could learn about the psychology of the accused. His view was that evil is basically a lack of empathy. Not sympathy. Empathy. It is the inability to be able to see things from another person's...

Probably best then that you don't read too many history books, because that is the historically 'normal' situation across the board. Not just in psych or medicine. Yeah, that ain't gonna work. Not even for the medicos. :facepalm: