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The effect of High-intensity interval exercise in CFS

Research abstract: Purpose: To determine if the typical exacerbation of symptoms in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) following a bout of exercise differs between high-intensity interval training (HIIT) or continuous (CONT) aerobic exercise of the same duration and mechanical … Continue reading

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Does GET & CBT for CFS improve sleep?

Research review: Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and graded exercise therapy (GET)  are recommended evidence based treatments for chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), with research supporting their effectiveness in reducing fatigue and functional impairment. However, little research has focussed on the effect of these treatments … Continue reading

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Graded vs Intermittent Exercise effects on lymphocytes in CFS

Research abstract: PURPOSE: There is increasing evidence of immune system dysfunction in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) but little is known of the regular exercise effects on immune cell parameters. This pilot study investigated the effects of graded and intermittent exercise … Continue reading

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Dr Goudsmit queries use of exercise therapy for ME

Article conclusion: In my view, the PACE trial is not controversial because of lay ‘misunderstandings’ or the  rejection that stress may play a role, but because it is a poorly designed study with missing data, based on a narrow view … Continue reading

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MAGENTA trial – PACE for children

Dr Esther Crawley’s study of activity management and Graded Exercise Therapy in children started in September 2015 and is due to end in August 2016 Tymes Trust comments when calling for an investigation into the PACE trial data: “We are frequently … Continue reading

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PACE trial didn’t prove graded exercise safe for CFS say Tuller & Rehmeyer

Journalists Julie Rehmeyer and Dr. David Tuller have published an analysis concluding that the PACE trial failed to demonstrate the safety of graded exercise therapy, despite its authors claiming that it was a safe treatment for patients with chronic fatigue … Continue reading

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The chokehold behavioural treatments have on ME/CFS

American health blogger Cort Johnson looks at which ME/CFS treatment studies have been published since the start of 2013. He highlights that there has been a lack of drug studies and that most of the these studies were small. Extracts: “With … Continue reading

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To future GPs – psychosomatic should not be the default suspicion re ME/CFS

Time to swot up on chronic fatigue – Future general practitioners need to be made aware that “psychosomatic” should not be the default suspicion, by Michael Brooks in the New Statesman, Nov 12 2015 Around 250,000 people in the UK suffer from … Continue reading

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Norwegian professors question GET & CBT as interventions for ME

Article extracts: The assessment and treatment of patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis in Norway is, according to a SINTEF study from 2011 highly inadequate: There is a lack of expertise within the social, welfare and healthcare … Continue reading

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Implications of trauma for CFS treatment

Research abstract: Chronic fatigue syndrome is a case definition for conditions of  chronic, disabling physical and mental fatigue which are not fully explained by medical or psychiatric causes (NICE, 2007). There has  been much controversy over both the case definition and … Continue reading

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