RogerBlack
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American researchers and clinicians would not necessarily agree, even if they did believe deconditioning was part of the illness-picture. I've heard lots of US physicians pushing patients to exercise more because they fear their genuinely exhausted patients will also become deconditioned, which to their uninformed knowledge, would worsen matters. This is totally separate from the paradigm of "movement phobia".
I was trying to explain the sentence in the paper
The lack of any significant differences between groups for the first exercise test would appear to support a deconditioning hypothesis for CFS symptoms.
Whereas for classical cardiopulmenary-muscular deconditioning, this seems precisely the opposite of what it supports.
And for fear-avoidance loop, it's just as bad.
In any case, I've mailed the corresponding author, and we'll see if they can clarify anything.
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