Opinion Between progress and invisibility: Are post-viral fatigue syndromes overwhelming medicine and society, 2024, Steinacker & Klinkisch

[Dolphin]

Steinacker JM, Klinkisch E-M. Between progress and invisibility: Are post-viral fatigue syndromes overwhelming medicine and society? Dtsch Z Sportmed. 2024; 75: 37-40. doi:10.5960/dzsm.2024.593


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Looks like a sympathetic editorial.

Auf Deutsch:
Zwischen Fortschritt und Unsichtbarkeit: Überfordern postvirale Erschöpfungssyndrome Medizin und die Gesellschaft?
https://www.zeitschrift-sportmedizi...ale-fatiguesyndrome-medizin-und-gesellschaft/

 

[Sean]

It is quite good. Some allowance may need to be made for quirks of translation or English not being their native tongue, and using certain words in somewhat different ways.

Does talk a bit about treating it as an inter-related body-mind thing, but in a more general common-sense way than we are used to being lumped with.

Makes it crystal clear it is not in any sense a primary psych issue (psychiatric, psychological, or psychosomatic), though there may well be secondary mental health consequences (be amazing if there wasn't), and criticises the increasing psychologisation of medical conditions and life in general.

Overall, a solid step forward. Thanks to the authors.