Tag Archives: GET
How me & my ME became worse… following an exercise programme
Rosa rainbows blog post: How me and my ME became worse, 17 September 2016 Extracts: I haven’t written a blog post for about two months, and the reason is that I have become very ill. For my friends who do … Continue reading
Dr Phil Hammond writes about the ME campaigners’ challenge to the science of CBT & GET
Private eye Medicine Balls column, 10 December 2016: ‘ME campaigners don’t ignore CBT and GET… but they do challenge the science’ Private eye Medicine Balls column, 25 November 2016: ‘ME cluster bomb’ [Written by ‘M.D.’, the nom de plume of Dr Phil … Continue reading
Studies on CBT & GET for ME/CFS are misleading, says Swedish prof
Article abstract: There have been a number of studies on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Graded Exercise Therapy (GET) for ME/CFS based on a treatment model where the disease is perpetuated by cognitive processes. Although the studies are flawed and … Continue reading
FITNET & PACE in the media continue to incite controversy
BBC Radio Scotland: The Kaye Adams show on 7 November 2016 included an hour long discussion of ME and the PACE trial. Available to listen to until 6 December. Speakers were an American writer Julie Rehmeyer, and the ME Association’s medical adviser Dr … Continue reading
Dr Keith Geraghty requests experiences of CBT & GET
Dr Keith Geraghty, researcher at the University of Manchester (@keithgeraghty) has tweeted at 6:09 p.m. on Mon, Nov 07, 2016: Ever experience adverse reactions to CBT or GET in CFS treatment – email me @ Keith.geraghty@manchester.ac.uk – we want to hear … Continue reading
PACE-gate: when clinical trial evidence meets open data access
Article abstract: Science is not always plain sailing and sometimes the voyage is across an angry sea. A recent clinical trial of treatments for chronic fatigue syndrome (the PACE trial) has whipped up a storm of controversy. Patients claim the … Continue reading
FITNET trial reporting is misleading
Major charities and individuals have joined WAMES in expressing concern about the nature of the FITNET trial being run by Prof Esther Crawley, the lack of objective analysis in the media coverage and the questionable results from the original Dutch trial. WAMES does … Continue reading
Dr James le Fanu on the PACE trial and ‘experts’
The Telegraph – Doctor’s diary column , by Dr James le Fanu, 17 October: Gove was right, we have had enough of experts Michael Gove’s remark amid the referendum campaign that ‘people have had enough of experts’ resonated widely – reflecting … Continue reading
Prof Peter White says: If my team’s research on ME is rejected, the patients will suffer
Guardian opinion piece, by Peter White, 20 September 2016: ‘If my team’s research on ME is rejected, the patients will suffer’ Sufferers of chronic fatigue syndrome have been neglected too long. But our Pace trials show the right talking and … Continue reading
Exercise and therapy cure for ME is ‘seriously flawed’
Times article, by Tom Whipple, 28 September 2016: Exercise and therapy cure for ME is ‘seriously flawed’ A landmark study suggesting that ME could be treated with exercise and psychological intervention is seriously flawed, scientists have claimed. If correct, it … Continue reading
