ReviewHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2022
The Updated NICE Guidance Exposed the Serious Flaws in CBT and Graded Exercise Therapy Trials for ME/CFS.
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- Efficacy and Acceptance of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Adults with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Meta-analysis.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2024Pooled it
- Tuina therapy for patients with chronic fatigue syndrome: a randomized controlled trial.Journal of translational medicine · 2026Trial
- Effectiveness of Tuina Therapy for Patients With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Protocol for a Multicenter, Randomized, Open-Label, Assessor-Blinded, Parallel-Group Clinical Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
- Reframing ME/CFS: toward a unified mechanistic model of chronic post-infectious diseases.Journal of translational medicine · 2026Review
- Current status and future perspectives on the mechanistic and pathophysiological understanding of long COVID.Communications medicine · 2026Article
- Outcomes of Patients with Neurocognitive Symptoms Attending a Long COVID Clinic: A Longitudinal Cohort Study.Journal of general internal medicine · 2026Article
- ACHTSAM study protocol: outreach diagnostics and assessment of tolerability in severe ME/CFS-a pilot study.BMJ open · 2026Observational
- An Overview of Severe Myalgic Encephalomyelitis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Review
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- Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS): diagnosis and management.Journal of translational medicine · 2025Review
- The PACE Trial's GET Manual for Therapists Exposes the Fixed Incremental Nature of Graded Exercise Therapy for ME/CFS.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Case Report: The intersection of psychiatry and medicine: diagnostic and ethical insights from case studies.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Return-to-work for people living with long COVID: A scoping review of interventions and recommendations.PloS one · 2025Article
- Postacute Sequelae of COVID (PASC or Long COVID): An Evidenced-Based Approach.Open forum infectious diseases · 2024Review
- [Interdisciplinary, collaborative D-A-CH (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) consensus statement concerning the diagnostic and treatment of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome].Wiener klinische Wochenschrift · 2024Article
- [Interdisciplinary multimodal pain therapy in postviral syndromes and ME/CFS : Features, pitfalls and model concept].Schmerz (Berlin, Germany) · 2024Review
- Practical Recommendations for Exercise Training in Patients with Long COVID with or without Post-exertional Malaise: A Best Practice Proposal.Sports medicine - open · 2024Article
- Why the Psychosomatic View on Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Is Inconsistent with Current Evidence and Harmful to Patients.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Article
- Do diagnostic criteria for ME matter to patient experience with services and interventions? Key results from an online RDS survey targeting fatigue patients in Norway.Journal of health psychology · 2023Article
- [The overview of the current evidence ignores the current evidence].Der Nervenarzt · 2023Article
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Abstract
The British National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recently published its updated guidelines for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). NICE concluded, after an extensive review of the literature, that graded exercise therapy (GET) is harmful and should not be used, and that cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is only an adjunctive and not a curative treatment. Leading proponents of the cognitive behavioural model (CBmodel) find it difficult to accept this paradigm shift. In, for example, an article in
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