Graded Exercise Therapy, at least in the UK, comes with the advice that 'Boom & Bust' cycles of activity are an obstacle to the rehabilitation of the MECFS patient.
After a week of Vøgt retweets in my twitter feed, I thought it would be productive to explore an idea from psychiatry that might...
The Herald: ME sufferers welcome 'unreliable' stamp on exercise report
http://www.heraldseries.co.uk/news/16115734.ME_sufferers_welcome_criticism_of_report_that_told_them_to__exercise_more_/
This article highlights how, for patients with illnesses that don't trigger PEM, even relatively small amounts of activity is beneficial. In my opinion, for patients with ME, this should be turned about, even relatively small amounts of seemingly innocuous activity are potentially harmful...
Kegan J. Moneghetti, Mehdi Skhiri, Kévin Contrepois, Yukari Kobayashi, Holden Maecker, Mark Davis, Michael Snyder, François Haddad & Jose G. Montoya
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-20941-w
Just came across this study that looks at the relationship between exercise and inflammation. Interesting for our purposes was that there is an increase in the levels of a whole host of inflammatory cytokines immediately after strenuous exercise.
It occurred to me that in PwMEs, these...
Chronic fatigue syndrome is NOT all in the mind - but caused by changes in brain chemistry, a study finds
"Spinal taps before exercise showed miRNA levels were the same in all participants suffering from chronic fatigue, Gulf War Illness and a control group.
But chronic fatigue syndrome...
Exercise – induced changes in cerebrospinal fluid miRNAs in Gulf War Illness, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and sedentary control subjects
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-15383-9
By James Baraniuk and Narayan Shivapurkar.
For What It Is Worth:
From: Dr. Marc-Alexander Fluks
Subject: URL: Exercise as it relates to Disease - ME/CFS/FM Fact Sheets 2017
Source: WikiBooks / 2017 Wiki Fact Sheets
Date: September 23, 2017
URL: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Exercise_as_it_relates_to_Disease...
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