Tag Archives: GET
Cochrane review of exercise therapy update
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 problem. Treatment may include … Continue reading
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
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
PACE: CBT and GET are not rehabilitative therapies
Lancet psychiatry correspondence by Frank Twisk, 18 January 2016: PACE: CBT and GET are not rehabilitative therapies In a recent Article Michael Sharpe and colleagues [1] report on findings of a follow-up study of the PACE trial of proposed rehabilitative interventions … Continue reading
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
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
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
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
ME Action launches petition to retract the PACE trial
Petition: Misleading PACE claims should be retracted TO: THE LANCET, PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE, AND THE AUTHORS OF THE PACE TRIAL Given the weak and flawed methodologies of the PACE trial, which claims that CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy) and GET (graded exercise) led … Continue reading
