{"id":11629,"date":"2017-01-26T08:49:42","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T08:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/?p=11629"},"modified":"2017-01-26T08:53:02","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T08:53:02","slug":"children-with-me-need-relevant-science-not-pressure-to-do-more-more-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/children-with-me-need-relevant-science-not-pressure-to-do-more-more-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Children with ME need relevant science, not pressure to do more, more, more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bristol cable<\/strong> article, by Jenny Horner, 24 January 2017: <a href=\"https:\/\/thebristolcable.org\/2017\/01\/children-with-me-need-relevant-science-not-pressure-to-do-more-more-more\/\" target=\"_blank\">Children with ME need relevant science, not pressure to do more, more, more<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An advocate and campaigner living with ME explains why she opposes Bristol University\u2019s trials on children with the condition.<\/p>\n<p>In November, Bristol University made national headlines for a \u00a31m trial attempting to treat child ME sufferers using a specific form of cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) over the internet. In chronic conditions, talking therapies can be useful support for the uncertainty and loss caused by illness.<\/p>\n<p>However, CBT is being used differently in ME with a strong agenda to increase activity, without treating the underlying disease. Bristol is also trialling a controversial \u2018graded exercise therapy\u2019 (MAGENTA). As an ME sufferer myself, I am deeply troubled to see the continued use of approaches to treat ME that can harm sick children instead of helping them&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Adults with ME feel that our views on these issues are usually ignored or caricatured. Children with ME have even less of a voice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thebristolcable.org\/2017\/01\/children-with-me-need-relevant-science-not-pressure-to-do-more-more-more\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bristol cable article, by Jenny Horner, 24 January 2017: Children with ME need relevant science, not pressure to do more, more, more&#8221; An advocate and campaigner living with ME explains why she opposes Bristol University\u2019s trials on children with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/children-with-me-need-relevant-science-not-pressure-to-do-more-more-more\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1434,11,426,416,425,10,481,3474,2470,310],"class_list":["post-11629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-bristol","tag-cbt","tag-cognitive-behavioural-therapy","tag-dr-esther-crawley","tag-fitnet","tag-get","tag-graded-exercise-therapy","tag-jenny-horner","tag-magenta-trial","tag-pace-trial"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5qkYK-31z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11629"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11634,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11629\/revisions\/11634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}