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New PACE research published in Lancet

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Cognitive behaviour therapy and graded exercise therapy led to significant improvements in fearful beliefs among patients with chronic fatigue syndrome, according to data published in the Lancet Psychiatry healio.com/psychiatry/pract...

ME: fear of exercise exacerbates chronic fatigue syndrome, say researchers

telegraph.co.uk/news/scienc...

Chronic fatigue syndrome patients’ fear of exercise can hinder treatment - study

Researchers say belief that activity will make ME worse can limit effectiveness of graded exercise therapy or CBT

theguardian.com/society/201...

Chronic fatigue syndrome sufferers 'can benefit from exercise'

independent.co.uk/life-styl...

Chronic fatigue victims 'suffer fear of exercise': Patients are anxious activities such as walking could aggravate the condition

dailymail.co.uk/health/arti...

Same old story from the flawed 2011 PACE trials there is more that will be learned from the comments

below the newspaper articles.

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The Lancet article thelancet.com/journals/lanp... is the sixth reworking of 2011 PACE trials thelancet.com/journals/lanc... disagrees with work from PD White who was involved in the original PACE trials - The data suggest that CFS patients without a comorbid psychiatric disorder do not have an exercise phobia. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/159... a decade ahead of Chalder

Very confusing though I found these videos explained things

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Why oh why must this keep on my family see news then think do more so cruel.

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The Daily Mail printed these stories in December 2014

dailymail.co.uk/femail/arti...

dailymail.co.uk/health/arti...

then wrote the PACE rehash so for balance show the family some of the other articles the same newspaper writes

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US Neuroscientist Says Exercise is a Noxious Stimulus That Worsens Symptoms of ME/CFS

theargusreport.com/us-neuro...

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As NHS funding was used in PACE trials, what is their opinion ?

nhs.uk/news/2015/01January/...

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Tackling fears about exercise is important for ME treatment, analysis indicates BMJ 2015;350:h227

Ingrid Torjesen

bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h22...

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