Opioid Painkiller Crackdown The news regarding opioids has been mostly bad for fibromyalgia (FM) and chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) patients. Restrictions on opioid pain killers could put these medications at risk for FM patients battling one of the most painful...
I think that my patients are some of the bravest, most stalwart individuals ever, and I admire them sincerely. Charles Lapp Dr. Lapp’s path to medicine and then into chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and fibromyalgia (FM) was an unusual one. Lapp graduated from...
A Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Bastion The Netherlands has long been a bastion of CBT – only the U.K.’s been able to match its tenacious pursuit of the therapy. Over the past five years, Dutch researchers have published no fewer than 20...
“Exercise encourages bone development, and lack of exercise means you’ll be more at risk of losing calcium from the bones and so developing osteoporosis….It also increases the risk of breaking a bone as a result of a fall.” NHS.UK...
Beck Weathers came about as close to dying and still survive as is possible in the Death Zone of Mt. Everest. Left for dead three times, Weathers managed to claw his way to camp and eventually get down the mountain with the help of a miraculous helicopter rescue....
Research funding for chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) has been poor at best but clinical trials have elicited a wholly different degree of disappointment altogether. Few clinical trials are ever done and those often involve alternative approaches. The six active...
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