Abstract
The British National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) published its updated guidelines for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) in October 2021. NICE concluded, after an extensive review of the literature, that graded exercise therapy (GET) is...
Vink M, Vink-Niese F. Are cognitive behavioral therapy and a group physical and mental health rehabilitation programme effective treatments for long COVID? Rethinking of a systematic review. SciBase Neurol. 2025; 3(1): 1026.
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Thread on the review that the paper criticises...
Interventions for the management of long covid post-covid condition: living systematic review
Dena Zeraatkar; Michael Ling; Sarah Kirsh; Tanvir Jassal; Mahnoor Shahab; Hamed Movahed; Jhalok Ronjan Talukdar; Alicia Walch; Samantha Chakraborty; Tari Turner; Lyn Turkstra; Roger S McIntyre; Ariel...
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Confirmed: The Conclusion by NICE that CBT is not an Effective Treatment for ME/CFS; Re-Analysis of a Systematic Review
Abstract
In this article, we analyzed the systematic review by Kuut et al. into the efficacy of cognitive...
Background: Three systematic reviews all concluded that exercise is an effective treatment for long COVID.
Objective: To determine if exercise therapy is also an effective treatment for long COVID patients who suffer from Post-Exertional Malaise (PEM) or Post-Exertional Symptom Exacerbation...
Abstract:
Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue (ME/CFS) is a post-infectious, chronic disease that can lead to severe impairment and, even, total disability. Although the disease has been known for a long time, and has been coded in the ICD since 1969 (G93.3), medical research has not yet...
The Draft Report by the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Healthcare Does Not Provide Any Evidence That Graded Exercise Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Are Safe and Effective Treatments for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
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Mark Vink
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Alexandra Vink-Niese...
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Percentage of people with ME/CFS able to work or attend school
The latest Virology blog:
“Trial By Error: Research From GET/CBT Ideological Brigades Shows No Improvements
in Work Status” see...
Vink M, Vink-Niese A. The draft updated NICE guidance for ME/CFS highlights the unreliability of subjective outcome measures in non-blinded trials. Journal of Health Psychology. January 2021 (Editorial), doi:10.1177/1359105321990810...
Another 'who said' post!
I've got Vink's paper (2016).
Even the PACE authors themselves say there was no difference between groups in lost employment, before or after the trial, and yet CBT and GET were more expensive anyway, and that may be enough.
In general benefits is a terrible, terrible...
Miriam E. Tucker: CFS takes down doctors, too
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Tells story of Gary Solomon, Mark Vink and anonymous Dr. X and Dr. Y - all MDs who developed ME.
Asked what he would like other physicians to know about ME/CFS, Vink responded "...that this is a...
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