Controversy over exercise therapy for CFS: key lessons for clinicians & academics (Mitchell, 2017)

[Sean]

Exercise therapy is probably the most effective of the modalities studied in terms of daily function, as measured by a walking test,...

Not for ME/CFS, it isn't.

 

[Dolphin]

http://apt.rcpsych.org/content/23/5/288

Round the Corner


Controversy over exercise therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome: continuing the debate
Trudie Chalder, Peter Denton White, Michael Sharpe, Alex J. Mitchell
BJPsych Advances Sep 2017, 23 (5) 288-291; DOI: 10.1192/apt.23.5.288


EDITOR’S SUMMARY
In a recent Round the Corner, Mitchell commented on a Cochrane Review of exercise therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS).

One of the trials included in that review, and discussed by Mitchell, was the PACE trial. In this month’s Round the Corner we are publishing a response we received from authors of the PACE trial (Chalder, White & Sharpe), together with Mitchell’s reply. Ed.

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I have started a new thread on this here:
http://forums.phoenixrising.me/inde...fatigue-syndrome-continuing-the-debate.54024/