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They now claim the improvement is entirely cognitive, which is what we knew all along - if you condition patients to complain less about their symptoms, they report less on symptoms.
I like how they feel the need to keep telling themselves, mantra like, that their treatments are 'evidence based'.
Cancer specialists using chemotherapy don't seem to have this preoccupation.
Since activity levels (at followup) don't change as a result of CBT, they can no longer claim that a decrease avoidance behaviour is associated with CBT improvements on self reported questionnaires.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21414449
They now claim the improvement is entirely cognitive, which is what we knew all along - if you condition patients to complain less about their symptoms, they report less on symptoms. Yet the paitients haven't actually improved as their activity levels haven't improved from their low level.