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Paul Garner @paulgarnerwoof.bsky.social · 2d

Yes. And proper coaching and rehabilitation can help people recover really quite quickly jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Outpatient Rehabilitation for Post–COVID-19 Condition

This randomized clinical trial examines the effectiveness of a 2- to 6-week outpatient cognitive and behavioral rehabilitation program for individuals with post–COVID-19 condition.

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Paul Garner @paulgarnerwoof.bsky.social · 2d

The Oslo RCT in longcovid intervention of psychoeducation and increasing mental and physical activity led to large benefits. These were even BIGGER effects in those in the upper quartile of PEM. This is important. IE BIGGER BENEFITS IN PEOPLE WITH PEM
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Outpatient Rehabilitation for Post–COVID-19 Condition

This randomized clinical trial examines the effectiveness of a 2- to 6-week outpatient cognitive and behavioral rehabilitation program for individuals with post–COVID-19 condition.

jamanetwork.com

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Paul Garner @paulgarnerwoof.bsky.social · 4d

#longcovid core to recovery is to understand that prediction effects are causing symptoms. Don't "ignore and push" but "understand, note and lean into.... activities you enjoy..." Rebecca Kennedy explains here www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCo8...

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Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter.bsky.social · Sep 3

For @unherd.com, I plumb the depths of the tangled and tortured case of Gordon Guyatt, who threw his team’s research funder under the bus and contradicted his own research findings to appease an activist mob.

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George Davey Smith @mendelrandom.bsky.social · Aug 7

This will be a great lecture from a brilliant and impactful epidemiologist

The John Snow Society @johnsnowsociety.bsky.social · Aug 7

📢The 2025 Pumphandle Lecture will be given by:

Dr Cesar Victora, Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology at Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil!!

"From Local Insights to Global Impact: Four Decades of Child Health and Nutrition Epidemiology in Pelotas, Brazil."

More information to come.

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Paul Garner @paulgarnerwoof.bsky.social · Jul 13

"Chronicity rhetoric" underpins the UK NICE ME/CFS guidance. The word "recover" appears ONCE and then implies relapse. @NICEComms contributes to a discourse that creates barriers to recovery. Shame on you.

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Paul Garner @paulgarnerwoof.bsky.social · Jun 12

Recovered #LongCovid #MECFS patients state 11 June in BMJ that the message, "no hope without a biomedical cure", is HARMFUL. NICE-you need to wake up to the damage you have done www.bmj.com/content/389/...

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Paul Garner @paulgarnerwoof.bsky.social · May 29

NICE Guidance UK misleads. People with severe ME will not get better with this advice, and they are denied cognitive approaches that can help recovery

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The BMJ @bmj.com · May 14

Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) affects around 250 000 people in the UK.

Reframing beliefs about illness, along with specialist rehabilitation, can help recovery in people with severe ME/CFS, @paulgarnerwoof.bsky.social and colleagues
www.bmj.com/content/389/...

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Paul Garner @paulgarnerwoof.bsky.social · Apr 2

This is a terrific seminar, linking the science of the stress response to the post-COVID condition and ME/CFS. "We need to "We need to listen to communities of people who have recovered from illness"-and brain-body retraining programmes really help people recover.

Alan Carson @alancarson15.bsky.social · Apr 2

www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0JY...

COFFI Consumer-Researcher Online Seminar IV

YouTube video by CAG

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Paul Garner @paulgarnerwoof.bsky.social · Mar 30

Excellent journalist. I am not sure the ME/CFS association comment is correct-they have not kept up with the science. In my view, this means the association is impairing people’s access to approaches that will help them recover. www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news...

‘This explanation of Long Covid helped me overcome my struggle with the illness’

Professor Paul Garner, a specialist in infectious diseases, was 'beaten up' by Long Covid for around 10 months, then he was given an explanation that transformed his life

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

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Paul Garner @paulgarnerwoof.bsky.social · Feb 21

so two independent, published critiques of Appelman point out this study is flawed and the patients were deconditioned. What is important is that Appelman inferences are also incorrect, as both these criticisms point out, from different disciplinary angles

northernsi.bsky.social @northernsi.bsky.social · Feb 19

No — you’re wrong. See the reply (to your reply) below:

‘We refute that our findings are due to deconditioning, as Long COVID-related skeletal muscle differ fundamentally from those caused by deconditioning.’
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Reply: Muscle abnormalities in Long COVID - Nature Communications

Nature Communications - Reply: Muscle abnormalities in Long COVID

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Paul Garner @paulgarnerwoof.bsky.social · Feb 21

A second group of commentators, who know muscle physiology well, point out these patients were deconditioned, myalgia after exercise is non-specific, and exercise will help recovery in these patients rdcu.be/eaOtl

Should we be careful with exercise in post-exertional malaise after long COVID?

Nature Communications - Should we be careful with exercise in post-exertional malaise after long COVID?

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Paul Garner @paulgarnerwoof.bsky.social · Feb 21

study in Nature claimed exercise damaged people with post-exertional malaise from #LongCovid. A second critique, from specialists in muscle, say pain after exercise is not specific to covid-19, and exercise IS helpful in muscle recovery. rdcu.be/eaOtl

Should we be careful with exercise in post-exertional malaise after long COVID?

Nature Communications - Should we be careful with exercise in post-exertional malaise after long COVID?

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Paul Garner @paulgarnerwoof.bsky.social · Feb 11

A study in Nature claimed exercise damaged people with post-exertional malaise from #LongCovid. We found their evidence does NOT support this: patients were deconditioned, the exercise was extreme, and there were no proper controls #MEcfs
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Reply: Muscle abnormalities in Long COVID - Nature Communications

Nature Communications - Reply: Muscle abnormalities in Long COVID

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Paul Garner @paulgarnerwoof.bsky.social · Jan 10

Pace trial is disbelieved by people that don't like the results. It is a well done study

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Paul Garner @paulgarnerwoof.bsky.social · Jan 9

Great piece in the "I" about #LongCovid treatment by @ClareWilsonMed : sensible, basic rehabilitation with cognitive approaches and incremental activity, and steer away from quack medicine that are "high on promise and low on evidence".
inews.co.uk/news/health/...

The long Covid ‘treatments’ to avoid

People with long Covid are resorting to a range of unproven remedies, from supplements to stem cells, but simple rehabilitation techniques are proving the best medicine

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Paul Garner @paulgarnerwoof.bsky.social · Jan 2

Improvement and recovery are possible for individuals living with chronic fatigue conditions.
This comes from extensive research, clinical experience, and the perspectives of patients who have experienced positive changes and full recovery.
www.sciencenorway.no/chronic-fati....

Health researchers believe: Chronic fatigue disorders are not incurable.

OPINION: A new study shows that cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and other rehabilitation measures are effective for so-called 'Long Covid.' At the same time, studies have shown that neither medica...

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Paul Garner @paulgarnerwoof.bsky.social · Jan 2

Excellent article on the theoretical underpinning of neuroplastic programmes to help people recover from #longcovid, and the structured active approach to reframe to make activity safe
psykologtidsskriftet.no/fagessay/202...

Mind-Body ReprogrammeringsTerapi (MBRT): ny behandling for long covid

Modellen er utviklet for pasienter med betydelig redusert funksjonsnivå som følge av long covid.

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Paul Garner @paulgarnerwoof.bsky.social · Nov 25

"insisting that symptoms in these [post-viral fatigue] conditions are wholly biomedical - unrelated to evolved biological stress responses...and the promotion of unfounded theories, such as “microclots” causing chronic fatigue conditions, in itself could be harmful".
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Plasmapheresis to remove amyloid fibrin(ogen) particles for treating the post‐COVID‐19 condition - Fox, T - 2023 | Cochrane Library

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