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NICE draft ME/CFS guideline recommends energy management, rest & physical maintenance
NICE draft ME/CFS guideline: energy management, rest & physical maintenance The draft NICE guideline is open for consultation until December 22nd 2020. Contact the helpline or use the contact form on this website with your comments for inclusion in … Continue reading
NICE draft ME/CFS guideline says NO to graded exercise therapy (GET) cure!
NICE draft ME/CFS guideline now out for consultation The draft of the revised NICE guideline has been published on November 10th 2020. It will be open for consultation until December 22nd. As a stakeholder WAMES will be responding to … Continue reading
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Graded Exercise Therapy doesn’t restore the ability to work in ME/CFS. Rethinking of a Cochrane Review
Graded Exercise Therapy doesn’t restore the ability to work in ME/CFS. Rethinking of a Cochrane review, by Mark Vink, Friso Vink-Niese in Work vol. 66, no. 2, pp. 283-308, 20 July 2020 [doi:10.3233/WOR-203174] Research abstract: Background: Cochrane recently amended its … Continue reading
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Tagged chronic fatigue, Cochrane review, Friso Vink-Niese, GET, graded exercise therapy, Interpretative bias, Mark Vink, occupational health, rehabilitation, work
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Severe ME in children
Severe ME in children, by Nigel Speight in Healthcare Vol 8, #3 p 211, July 14, 2020 [This article belongs to the Special Issue ME/CFS] Guideline abstract current problem regarding Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/ Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) is the large … Continue reading
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Tagged CBT, children, cognitive behavioural therapy, Dr Nigel Speight, Fabricated or Induced Illness, GET, graded exercise therapy, immunoglobulin, paediatric ME, PEM, Pervasive Refusal Syndrome, Post-exertional malaise, severe ME
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NICE Statement about graded exercise therapy in the context of COVID-19
Statement about graded exercise therapy in the context of COVID-19 NICE is aware of concerns about graded exercise therapy (GET) for people who are recovering from COVID-19. NICE’s guideline on ME/CFS (CG53) was published in 2007, many years before … Continue reading
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Tagged Coronavirus, COVID-19, GET, graded exercise therapy, ME Association, NICE guidance, NICE guideline ME/CFS
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The concept of ‘illness without disease’ impedes understanding of CFS: a response to Sharpe & Greco
The concept of ‘illness without disease’ impedes understanding of chronic fatigue syndrome: a response to Sharpe and Greco, by Steven Lubet, David Tuller in BMJ Medical Humanities. Published Online First: 01 June 2020. [doi: 10.1136/medhum-2019-011807] Article abstract: In a … Continue reading
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Tagged biomedical research, CBT, cognitive behavioural therapy, GET, graded exercise therapy, Monica Greco, PACE trial, Prof David Tuller, Prof Michael Sharpe, psychosomatic, Steven Lubet
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Rethinking the standard of care for ME/CFS
Rethinking the standard of care for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, by Fred Friedberg, Madison Sunnquist, Luis Nacul in Journal of General Internal Medicine, Published online: 21 October 2019 [doi.org/10.1007/s11606-019-05375-y ] Article abstract: For over two decades, the standard of … Continue reading
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Tagged CBT, clinical management, cognitive behavioural therapy, Dr Fred Friedberg, Dr Luis Nacul, energy envelope theory, GET, graded exercise therapy, Madison L Sunnquist, PACE, pacing, Post-exertional malaise
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Revised Cochrane review of exercise treatments for CFS
WAMES statement: The revised Cochrane review on exercise therapy for ME & CFS has taken positive steps to acknowledge the limitations of the research into exercise therapy that they previously promoted, and especially the lack of research into potential harms. … Continue reading
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Tagged Cochrane review, GET, graded exercise therapy, Jan Ogdaard-Jensen, Jonathan R Price, Kjetil G Brurberg, Lillebeth Larun
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Dialogues for a neglected illness – a new project
Dialogues for a neglected illness project Dialogues for a neglected illness is a new project supported by an award from the Wellcome Public Engagement Fund 2018-2021. It will consist of a website with a series of short videos and … Continue reading
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Tagged Dialogues or a neglected illness, GET, graded exercise therapy, Josh Biggs, Natalie Boulton, PACE trial, videos
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Why GET and CBT are controversial in CFS
Why Graded Exercise Therapy and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy are controversial in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, by Michiel Tack in BMJ Medical Humanities blog Sharpe and Greco ask the interesting question of why cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) and graded exercise therapy (GET) … Continue reading
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