Alvin
Senior Member (Voting Rights)
Yes but the problem is anything can and will be twisted until they are blacklisted by the rest of the medical profession.This looks really interesting and it's helpful to know it's recognised as a measure of severity in MS too, so is seen as a valid measure.
Is there any way this can be misused by the BPS crowd? I'm just imagining them accusing us of not trying hard enough to grip because of some sort of fear avoidance. And adding hand grip strengthening exercises to their GET treatment regimes so they can use it as a marker to prove we've improved. Sorry to sound negative, I just don't trust the BPS lot not to twist this to their advantage.
I'll give an example Tesla has a cabal of short sellers who do everything possible to talk down the company, short selling is when you bet large amounts of money a stock will go down and if it does you make money. If it goes up you lose money. Some of their experts appear on the news to spin every piece of good news as a harbinger of failure. Increased volume means they are maxed out (they have claimed this virtually every quarter that production has risen), demand is temporary every time it rises, profit is impossible and when it happens its always unsustainable, claimed costs are lies, the cars are poorly built because they use too much metal (having crash safety better then the competition is not acceptable justification), there are no resources to make batteries, the market is saturated every time sales increase and so on. All good news is turned into bad news because they need Tesla to fail to make money.
If we end up with a disease mechanism they will just claim its psychosomatically induced and treatable with CBT. The problem with reality denial is that there is no shame and no accountability, its almost like politics.
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