Caroline Struthers' letter to Cochrane Governing Board
I noticed on Anil about ME's Facebook page the following link:
https://healthycontrolblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/29/my-complaint-to-the-cochrane-governing-board-about-the-cochrane-review-of-exercise-for-chronic-fatigue-syndrome/
Caroline...
They obviously know nothing about ME
https://gizmodo.com/no-such-thing-as-too-much-exercise-study-finds-1829874676
I only skimmed the first couple paragraphs
https://www.nhs.uk/video/Pages/ms-cfs-chronicpain-fibromyalgia.aspx
Found this on the NHS website. I wondered whether anyone knew how this can be justified and where it came from?
I also think there should be some lobbying as part of the NICE guideline review to raise this as an issue along...
I was surprised to find this article posted on the ME/CFS Australia (SA) Inc site:
http://www.sacfs.asn.au/
Sep 18, 2018 by Ernie Schramayr Hamilton Spectator
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Exercise leads to a release of “feel good” hormones that makes most people feel energized, clear headed, invigorated. ............"...
A few years ago I had the idea of starting up a website in which hospitals, institutions or individual psychiatrists and psychologists who coerce exercise therapy upon unwilling ME/CFS patients could be named and shamed.
I was just recently reminded of the idea after reading this thread of an...
The full text of this is now available: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01246/full
I'll leave it to others to decide whether there is anything of use in this or alternatively, if there is anything particularly problematic.
Note from the moderators:
The discussion in this thread is focussed on the BPS theory of deconditioning. There is another thread for discussing the issue raised in this post: Muscle atrophy
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Hi Everyone
My recent muscle biopsy of my thigh has led to what seems...
While reading the Ciba Foundation Symposium 173 papers (Wiley, 1993), I came across this quote from Peter White in one of the discussions (after Sharpe's presentation on Non-pharmacological treatments - p310):
And thus, CBT/GET was born!
However, I looked back at David McCluskey's...
Provisionally accepted.
Cardiopulmonary Exercise Test Methodology for Assessing Exertion Intolerance in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Staci Stevens1, Chris Snell1, Jared Stevens1, Betsy keller2 and J. Mark VanNess3*
1Workwell Foundation, United States
2Department of...
A good article on Your Care Everywhere website.
https://www.yourcareeverywhere.com/health-research/health-insights/pain-care-insights/stop-exercising-for-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-symptoms.html
Mark VanNess, PhD presented at the annual meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine. Lariel Mateo presented at the University of the Pacific’s Undergraduate Research and Creativity Conference.
http://www.workwellfoundation.org/research-and-latest-news/
Rigorous exercise does not halt dementia decline, study concludes
Keeping active helps prevent the onset of dementia, but once the disease has taken hold, working out more does nothing to slow its progress
Guardian article available @...
Old, 2nd Oct 2017, article.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/10/02/554369327/for-people-with-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-more-exercise-isnt-better
Linked to from a recently found Reader's Digest article on 'Fitness Myths' -...
Good to see mainstream media no longer pushing graded exercise, and even pointing out harms. Nice jab at the CDC's decades of negligence. Now if they would just stop calling it "chronic fatigue syndrome". :emoji_bicyclist::emoji_cartwheel::emoji_lifter::emoji_skier::dead:
50 Fitness Myths That...
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