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After analyzing the responses, the researchers concluded that the benefits reported in the original study, which assessed participants at 1 year, were maintained for at least another 1.5 years. But the participants randomized to receive the two interventions that initially did nothing also improved, and there “was little evidence of differences in outcomes” when compared with the people in the other treatment groups. The authors suggest that this is because the people in the ineffective groups later decided to seek out graded exercise and cognitive behavior therapy.
Two other interventions tested, so-called specialist medical care .. did not help.
The back pedalling is going to be awesome.re they now claiming CBT and GET were only "moderately helpful treatment".
With the amount of expertise a lot of BPS practitioners will soon achieve, perhaps we should request that back-peddling become an Olympic sport?The back pedalling is going to be awesome.