1) Virtual conference on Supporting Patients Living with #longCovid: healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/conferences-ma…
Wed 9 December
Speakers include: Dr Clare Gerada, Prof Lynne Turner-Stokes and Professor Trudie Chalder. All prominent advocates of graded exercise therapy (GET) and CBT for ME/CFS.
2) The new NICE draft Guideline on ME/CFS states that patients should not be given GET or CBT as a treatment: nice.org.uk/guidance/GID-N…
#LongHaulers may question whether those who have promoted these treatments for ME should be advising on #LongCovid.
3) Highly recommended reading for anyone with #LongCovid – and anyone with an interest in standards in clinical research.
4) KCL interview with Prof Chalder (a #PACEtrial author) on #LongCovid:
5) Dr Gerada’s promoting graded exercise therapy for ME/CFS (based on a model developed by her husband):
6) Slide from a talk by Prof Tuner-Stokes in which she lists the “secondary gains” of being chronically unwell:
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