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    Effects of Yijinjing Qigongin Alleviating Fatigue, Sleep Quality and Health Status on Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: ... 2023 Xie et al

    My limited experience of doing Tai Chi and yoga when I was healthy is that albeit the movement is smooth and not jarring it is like dance a question of holding yourself in positions and moving through them in a controlled way. This is beneficial for healthy people in postural and muscle...
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    Covid-19 vaccines and vaccinations

    Here is the announcement by U.K. committee on vaccines about the proposed new approach for 2023 it’s fairly straightforward to understand without needing interpretation https://www.gov.uk/government/news/jcvi-advises-an-autumn-covid-19-vaccine-booster
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    The $10 test

    I kept attending because I wanted the box ticked.
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    New blood diagnostic company started by Mike Snyder at Stanford

    Yeah funnily enough I didn’t need any blood tests to work that one out.
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    Aversion to activity - distinct from fatigue or not?

    If I’m doing a social activity like the funeral I went to yesterday it gets to a point where my energy level is much lower than my normal day to day. Everything is harder to do and pain is higher I find myself basically pretty grumpy about everything and keeping up a veneer of pleasant is...
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    UK Parliament Research Briefing: Invisible Disabilities in Education and Employment

    Catherine Hale, Astriid listed as involved in POST board Also lists Fran Springfield from Chronic Illness Inclusion as a reviewer/contributor to the report
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    Medical conditions that are well recognized but that (currently) lack a diagnostic biomarker?

    https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/multiple-sclerosis/diagnosis/ Multiple Sclerosis as an example where even when there are tests there’s no single test that’s guaranteed to show it.
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    UK: Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) articles, blogs and discussion

    I wonder if therapies in the plural means the CBT sausage machine is falling out of favour and more patient centred approaches will be available.
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    SF-36 - a discussion

    In my view although this is long if you do the whole thing it is better notably it actually asks about how many days in the last 30 days did your illness prevent/affect you doing basic activities.
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    How does pain influence the outcome of CBT in patients with CFS/ME?, Kvam, 2021 (Master thesis)

    In circumstances when you have little choice about undergoing CBT there’s definitely one positive about the concept of short CBT. On IAPT I was given the opportunity of finishing after 6 sessions rather than 8 - which wasn’t something I hesitated over :whistle:
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    Design and validation of a predictive model for determining the risk of developing fibromyalgia 2023 Benachi Sandoval et al

    History of chronic widespread pain prior to diagnosis in people who then get diagnosed with fibromyalgia well knock me down with a feather :whistle:
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    Closed UK: DecodeME updates, was recruitment thread.

    Just did my kit last week. Posted Tuesday afternoon and I got the receipt email Saturday.
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    "We provided mental health support to about 4,000 people — using GPT-3. Here’s what happened"

    More machine-ifying of the sausage machine In my experience of low intensity CBT with IAPT the young woman was already pretty much robotically sticking to a script for our 30 min sessions. It would be more honest to have it delivered by AI.
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    United Kingdom: National Health Service (NHS) news

    Maybe it’s better his involvement is out in the open, as being a behind the scenes influence is completely unaccountable
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