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Staci Stevens
My take with the severely disabled patients that unless they cannot move then most of them can and should do some stretching. We do know that being immobilized for long periods of time causes your tendons and ligaments to constrict potentially causing severe pain. Mike Dessin was flat on his back for almost 2 years - reversing the damage done to his ligaments or tendons was one of the more difficult things he had to do. He did prolotherapy and other techniques to get them back to normalcy.
The physical ramificatiions of being immobilized are REALLY significant.
Staci Stevens has had ME/CFS for several decades. She worked intimately as an exercise physiologist with Dr. Peterson for several years. She's done aerobic exercise tests on hundreds of patients. She started the Pacific Fatigue Lab - a lab devoted to the study of what exercise does to CFS patients. She was the first to elucidate the metabolic abnormalities that occur during exercise/repeat exercise tests. She creates exercise programs for people who do the repeat exercise tests based on the point at which their metabolic systems fail. She basically knows what exercise does and does not do to CFS patients better than anyone else in the world I would guess.
If you read this report you'll see that it's her belief that most CFS patients are doing too much activity. She uses the results of her exercise tests to to demonstrate that the most of the people who take them. They're usually appalled by how little 'safe' exercise they can do.
I agree that its a strange situation - promoting an exercise program that most people cannot do because there are you doing too much exercise. the only way this works, I think, is for the patient to get to their correct exercise levels first and then, by using the exercise program correctly, they can slowly increase their ability to exercise. This will help with their muscle tone, their feelings of well-being and their general health. There's no indication that I can tell that they can never engage in vigorous physical activity but many of them can feel better.
My take with the severely disabled patients that unless they cannot move then most of them can and should do some stretching. We do know that being immobilized for long periods of time causes your tendons and ligaments to constrict potentially causing severe pain. Mike Dessin was flat on his back for almost 2 years - reversing the damage done to his ligaments or tendons was one of the more difficult things he had to do. He did prolotherapy and other techniques to get them back to normalcy.
The physical ramificatiions of being immobilized are REALLY significant.
Staci Stevens has had ME/CFS for several decades. She worked intimately as an exercise physiologist with Dr. Peterson for several years. She's done aerobic exercise tests on hundreds of patients. She started the Pacific Fatigue Lab - a lab devoted to the study of what exercise does to CFS patients. She was the first to elucidate the metabolic abnormalities that occur during exercise/repeat exercise tests. She creates exercise programs for people who do the repeat exercise tests based on the point at which their metabolic systems fail. She basically knows what exercise does and does not do to CFS patients better than anyone else in the world I would guess.
If you read this report you'll see that it's her belief that most CFS patients are doing too much activity. She uses the results of her exercise tests to to demonstrate that the most of the people who take them. They're usually appalled by how little 'safe' exercise they can do.
I agree that its a strange situation - promoting an exercise program that most people cannot do because there are you doing too much exercise. the only way this works, I think, is for the patient to get to their correct exercise levels first and then, by using the exercise program correctly, they can slowly increase their ability to exercise. This will help with their muscle tone, their feelings of well-being and their general health. There's no indication that I can tell that they can never engage in vigorous physical activity but many of them can feel better.