Tag Archives: GET
Time loaded standing in women with CFS
Research abstract Patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), like patients with osteoporosis, have similar difficulties in standing and sitting. The aim of the study was to compare combined trunk and arm endurance among women with CFS (n=72), women with osteoporosis … Continue reading
Review of exercise therapy studies
Review abstract BACKGROUND: Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is characterised by persistent, medically unexplained fatigue, as well as symptoms such as musculoskeletal pain, sleep disturbance, headaches and impaired concentration and short-term memory. CFS presents as a common, debilitating and serious health … Continue reading
Activity and CFS
[Letter from Joan Crawford: In the February 2015 edition of Therapy Today (News, p6) there is a short report on exercise and CFS. Uncritically your report states, ‘Both [CBT aimed at increasing patients activity and GET (graded exercise therapy)] have been … Continue reading
Claims of ‘fear avoidance’ in ME are misleading
Following the publication of the latest PACE trail paper in the Lancet on 13th January, there has been a flurry of media reports, many of which promote the findings as good news. Other articles counter the claims saying: people with ME are … Continue reading
Fear avoidance beliefs as cause of fatigue and disability in CFS challenged
A paper published in the online journal Lancet Psychiatry claims that analysis of the PACE trial shows that fear avoidance of exercise plays a strong role in perpetuating fatigue and disability in CFS, and that the best treatment for this is CBT and GET. … Continue reading
Warning against overstating recovery in CFS PACE trial
Commenting on a recently published report of a large-scale evaluation of behavioral interventions for chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), Fred Friedberg, PhD and Jenna Adamowicz warned against overstating the capacity of any currently available therapy to produce recovery from CFS. In … Continue reading
Reasons for poor experiences of rehabilitation therapies
Review abstract Purpose: First, to explore the experiences of people with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) of rehabilitation therapies so as to build an understanding of reasons for the discrepancy between the notably mixed experiences regarding effectiveness reported in patient … Continue reading
Physiotherapist warns about graded exercise therapy (GET) in ME/CFS
Physio Michelle Bull has a special interest in exercise for people with chronic fatigue – because her son has the condition I read the article about graded exercise therapy (GET) (Frontline, 20 March) with great interest as a physiotherapist and … Continue reading
Chronic fatigue improves in first year with or without treatment
Researchers from London studied 222 patients reporting fatigue for over three months. They were given either ‘usual care’ – providing a booklet describing causes of fatigue and self-help techniques based on cognitive behavioural therapy – or NICE-approved therapies such as … Continue reading
