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  1. Sly Saint
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    Controversy over exercise therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome: Continuing the debate (from 2017)

    Part of: BJPsych Advances Cochrane Corner and Round the Corner Collection Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 April 2018 "...
    Thread by: Sly Saint, Apr 25, 2021, 0 replies, in forum: PsychoSocial ME/CFS News
  2. Andy
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    Guided graded exercise self-help for chronic fatigue syndrome: Long term follow up & cost-effectiveness following the GETSET trial, 2021, Clark et al

    Highlights • Guided graded exercise self-help (GES) can lead to sustained improvement in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome. • There was no...
    Thread by: Andy, Apr 5, 2021, 31 replies, in forum: PsychoSocial ME/CFS Research
  3. Andy
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    Cost-effectiveness of Interventions for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or Myalgic Encephalomyelitis: A Systematic Review.., Cochrane, Crawley et al, 2021

    Full title: Cost-effectiveness of Interventions for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or Myalgic Encephalomyelitis: A Systematic Review of Economic...
    Thread by: Andy, Mar 2, 2021, 11 replies, in forum: PsychoSocial ME/CFS Research
  4. rvallee
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    A randomised controlled trial of the effectiveness of an exercise training program in patients recovering from SARS, 2005

    (This was about SARS, not properly controlled either) A randomised controlled trial of the effectiveness of an exercise training program in...
    Thread by: rvallee, Dec 26, 2020, 3 replies, in forum: Epidemics (including Covid-19)
  5. Milo
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    Protocol for a randomised controlled feasibility trial of exercise rehabilitation for people with POTS: the PULSE study (2020) MacGregor et al

    Abstract: Background Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) is an autonomic nervous system disorder causing an abnormal cardiovascular...
    Thread by: Milo, Oct 23, 2020, 7 replies, in forum: Health News and Research unrelated to ME/CFS
  6. Sly Saint
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    The Effect of CBT, GET and Pacing Treatments on ME/CFS Symptoms: Analysis of a Patient Survey compared against Secondary Surveys - 2017 Geraghty et al

    Problem Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME)/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) severely impacts the quality of life of sufferers. Most ME/CFS patients will...
    Thread by: Sly Saint, Oct 18, 2020, 7 replies, in forum: PsychoSocial ME/CFS Research
  7. Kalliope
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    The ME Association: Scottish Government Issue Caution for Graded Exercise Therapy in ME/CFS & Post/Long-Covid

    The Scottish Health Department has posted an interim statement advising caution over the suitability of Graded Exercise Therapy (GET) in treating...
    Thread by: Kalliope, Oct 15, 2020, 6 replies, in forum: General ME/CFS News
  8. Hutan
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    Specialist treatment of CFS/ME: a cohort study among adult patients in England, 2017, Collin and Crawley

    Abstract Background NHS specialist chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS/ME) services in England treat approximately 8000 adult patients each year....
    Thread by: Hutan, Oct 5, 2020, 9 replies, in forum: PsychoSocial ME/CFS Research
  9. Andy
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    Dr Alastair Miller's misleading claims about effectiveness of the English NHS (rehab) ME/CFS clinics, Royal Society of Medicine webinar in Sept '20

    [MEDIA] Proponents of cognitive behavior therapy and graded exercise therapy as treatments for CFS, ME, or their variants keep trotting out their...
    Thread by: Andy, Oct 2, 2020, 15 replies, in forum: General ME/CFS News
  10. Michiel Tack
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    Why do doctors use treatments that do not work? Doust & Del Mar, 2005

    Thought this was an interesting editorial. It's from 2004 but is still relevant. The history of medicine is replete with examples of treatments...
    Thread by: Michiel Tack, Sep 18, 2020, 5 replies, in forum: Health News and Research unrelated to ME/CFS
  11. Dolphin
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    (Spanish) Effectiveness of graduated therapeutic exercise and CBT in CFS a systematic review, 2020, Polo Ferrandez

    Free full text: https://gredos.usal.es/bitstream/handle/10366/143718/TFG_PoloFerrandez_EjercicioFatiga.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y From: Dr....
    Thread by: Dolphin, Jul 26, 2020, 8 replies, in forum: PsychoSocial ME/CFS Research
  12. strategist
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    MEAction UK has sent an open letter to Matt Hancock asking him to recognise the harm caused by GET

    Please email your MP and ask them to write to Matt Hancock, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care calling on him to: Request NICE adds...
    Thread by: strategist, Jul 15, 2020, 6 replies, in forum: General ME/CFS News
  13. InitialConditions
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    NICE Statement about graded exercise therapy in the context of COVID-19

    https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/gid-ng10091/documents/interim-findings-2 "NICE is aware of concerns about graded exercise therapy (GET) for...
    Thread by: InitialConditions, Jul 11, 2020, 163 replies, in forum: Information for NICE guidelines
  14. chrisb
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    Normal muscle strength and fatiguability in patients with effort syndromes, 1988, Stokes at al

    I realise that this is hardly news but thought it worth a reread as Chalder and Butler in a 1989 MEA newsletter considered it one of the two...
    Thread by: chrisb, Jul 3, 2020, 20 replies, in forum: PsychoSocial ME/CFS Research
  15. Andy
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    Graded exercise therapy doesn’t restore the ability to work in ME/CFS. Rethinking of a Cochrane review, 2020, Vink & Vink-Niese

    BACKGROUND: Cochrane recently amended its exercise review for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) in response to an...
    Thread by: Andy, Jun 23, 2020, 24 replies, in forum: PsychoSocial ME/CFS Research
  16. cassava7
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    The concept of ‘illness without disease’ impedes understanding of chronic fatigue syndrome: a response to Sharpe and Greco, 2020, Lubet & Tuller

    Mod note: The reply by Lubet and Tuller was in response to an article by Sharpe and Greco, discussed here: Michael Sharpe: Mind, Medicine and...
    Thread by: cassava7, Jun 3, 2020, 10 replies, in forum: PsychoSocial ME/CFS Research
  17. Grigor
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    Clinical psychologist Grete Lilledalen about ME and CBT/GET.

    "On the trail of a less inflamed ME debate." Clinical psychogist Grete Lilledalen about ME and CBT/GET. Well worth the read and share! "We must...
    Thread by: Grigor, Apr 26, 2020, 39 replies, in forum: PsychoSocial ME/CFS News
  18. Lucibee
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    Independent advisory group for the full update of the Cochrane review on exercise therapy and ME/CFS (2020), led by Hilda Bastian

    This post and the following one have been moved or copied from this thread. Oooooo...! [MEDIA]...
    Thread by: Lucibee, Feb 13, 2020, 940 replies, in forum: PsychoSocial ME/CFS News
  19. Andy
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    The Impact of a Structured Exercise Programme upon Cognitive Function in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Patients, 2019, Zalewski, Morten, Newton et al

    Background: Cognitive function disturbance is a frequently described symptom of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). In...
    Thread by: Andy, Dec 19, 2019, 24 replies, in forum: PsychoSocial ME/CFS Research
  20. rogerblack
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    CBT/GET - in their own words.

    It is not needed to go to third parties analysis to find the glaring errors. Quoting something I wrote for other purposes. The PACE trial was the...
    Thread by: rogerblack, Dec 1, 2019, 0 replies, in forum: PsychoSocial ME/CFS Research
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