Tag Archives: PEM

Research: PEM in long COVID & ME/CFS

Post-Exertional Malaise in long COVID compared to ME/CFS   Researchers at the Bateman Horne clinic in Utah, USA asked long COVID and ME/CFS patients about PEM which they described as: “an unusual worsening of symptoms after minimal physical or mental … Continue reading

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Recovery from exercise in persons with ME/CFS

Measuring recovery from exercise in ME/CFS   US researchers used a  2-day exercise study (CPET) to discover how long it took people with ME/CFS to recover from exercise. The 80 participants with ME/CFS took an average of almost 2 weeks … Continue reading

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Welsh long COVID services to be opened up to ME/CFS & FM

Funding boost for services for long-term conditions   Health Minister Eluned Morgan has announced increased funding for Adferiad (long COVID) services. In 2022 she allocated £5m and this has now been raised to £8.3m for 2023. This will be shared … Continue reading

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Research: Transcriptomics: female ME/CFS patients responded differently to an exercise challenge

Disrupted immune signatures found in females with ME/CFS   US researchers found that female ME/CFS patients responded differently to an exercise challenge that stimulates PEM, compared to healthy females.  They studied the RNA molecules in the cells (transcriptomics). The ME/CFS … Continue reading

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Call for WHO to recognise energy limiting disabilities

World ME Alliance highlights energy limiting disabilities   As a founding member of  the World ME Alliance WAMES joins ME organisations round the world in calling for better understanding in the WHO of the challenges people with ME and long … Continue reading

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CFS/ME in adolescents: Practical guidance & management challenges

Practical guidance and management challenges of ME/CFS in adolescents Australian paediatrician Dr Katherine Rowe has written a paper for practitioners, based on her own experience, which reviews the current understanding of ME/CFS and highlights effective management strategies for adolescents. As … Continue reading

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Lessons from ME/CFS for long COVID: “Energy System First Aid” for people with PESE (aka PEM)

Lessons from Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome for Long COVID   Part 3: “Energy System First Aid” for People With Post Exertional Symptom Exacerbation, by Todd E Davenport, Staci R Stevens, Jared Stevens, Christopher R Snell, J Mark Van Ness in … Continue reading

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Lessons from ME/CFS for Long COVID: Physiological characteristics… are abnormal in people with Postexertional Symptom Exacerbation (aka PEM)

Lessons from Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome for Long COVID Part 2: Physiological characteristics during acute exercise are abnormal in people with Postexertional Symptom Exacerbation, by Todd E Davenport, Staci R Stevens, Jared Stevens, Christopher R Snell, J Mark Van Ness in JOSPT, … Continue reading

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Lessons from ME/CFS for long COVID: Postexertional Symptom Exacerbation (aka PEM)

Lessons from Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome for long COVID: Postexertional Symptom Exacerbation is an abnormal response to exercise/activity, by Todd E Davenport, Staci R Stevens, Jared Stevens, Christopher R Snell, J Mark Van Ness in JOSPT blog, February 2, 2022 … Continue reading

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Biomarker research: Submaximal exercise provokes increased activation of the anterior DMN during the resting state as a biomarker of PEM in ME/CFS

Submaximal exercise provokes increased activation of the anterior default mode network during the resting state as a biomarker of postexertional malaise in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/ Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, by Rakib U Rayhan and  James N Baraniuk in Front. Neurosci., 15 Dec 2021 … Continue reading

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