Do graded activity therapies cause harm in chronic fatigue syndrome? (Kindlon, 2017)

It's the 2-year anniversary of this open access paper of mine, so I'm giving it a plug in a few places.

It could be useful if there is any suggestion that somebody should be coerced into doing graded activity or exercise programmes; also to counter claims that the PACE Trial showed graded activity programs are safe.

The word limit for the abstract was 100 words, so I couldn't say as much as I would have liked.

I would have liked to have mentioned the PACE trial in the title as a lot of the focus was the harms reporting in the PACE Trial but the journal's editor wanted something shorter.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1359105317697323

 

https://twitter.com/user/status/1108200575940857857

 

All those papers were two years ago? That's such a long time. Progress since then feels so slow!

Thanks for all your work. This was a really useful paper on a difficult topic.

 

Thank you for doing such amazing work and not giving up !

 

Solid and scientifically sound criticism of the reporting of harm in GET trials. As always, it is a pleasure to read your papers, Tom!

 

"¿LAS TERAPIAS GRADUADAS DE ACTIVIDAD SON PERJUDICIALES PARA EL SÍNDROME DE FATIGA CRÓNICA?"

https://www.dropbox.com/s/p4q4w625x...IVIDAD SON PERJUDICIALES PARA EL SFC.pdf?dl=0



https://twitter.com/user/status/1108447302035951618

 

https://twitter.com/user/status/1240837969377812482

 

I have actually used the original paper when someone was considering recommending GET for me. I think they felt I had little to lose by trying it but the paper made them think again.

Thank you @Tom Kindlon

 

maybe someone could enlighten the author of this blog:

Code:

https://medium.com/@djsan77/6-long-term-negative-effects-of-lack-of-physical-activity-b4970374d40b

 

Not sure if I have said this much but this was written for the PACE Trial special issue. The original title had the PACE Trial in it because that is what it focuses on but then the editor asked me to shorten it. If I was writing something from scratch on “Do graded activity therapies cause harm in chronic fatigue syndrome?” I would have written something more general.