“The recommendation of graded exercise has caused untold physical damage to thousands of people. In fact, a 2018 survey found that 89% of ME sufferers experienced worsened symptoms after increasing activity. If graded exercise were a drug, it would have lost its licence.” ExerciseChronic Fatigue SyndromeMyalgic EncephalomyelitisMe CfsMe Cfs QuotesGraded Exercise TherapyBad SciencePace TrialStopget Author:Carol Monaghan
“As a physician bedridden with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) for more than a decade who is totally dependent on others, all thanks to a major relapse caused by GET, I am in a unique position to answer how harmful GET and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) really are. The basis of these therapies is false illness beliefs, meaning that it is all in the mind. These beliefs ignore all of the evidence that ME is a physical disease, such as intracellular immune dysfunctions, which not only restrict exercise capacity but also worsen with exercise (2).” ExerciseChronic Fatigue SyndromeMyalgic EncephalomyelitisMe CfsCognitive Behavioral TherapyMe Cfs QuotesGraded Exercise TherapyCbtStopgetChronic Fatigue Syndrome Quotes Author:Maik Speedy
“Many who were able to walk when they embarked on a course of graded exercise dropped out of the treatment in wheelchairs or bedbound.” ExerciseChronic Fatigue SyndromeMyalgic EncephalomyelitisMe CfsMe Cfs QuotesGraded Exercise TherapyPace TrialStopget Author:Carol Monaghan
“...patient evidence has repeatedly found that cognitive behaviour therapy is ineffective and graded exercise therapy can make the condition worse.” ExerciseTreatmentChronic Fatigue SyndromeMyalgic EncephalomyelitisMe CfsNhsGraded Exercise TherapyCbtCfs MeStopget Author:Charles Shepherd
“Patients find GET harmful Since patient surveys ask whether symptoms got worse, therapies can also be ranked in terms of which cause the most harm. In three large surveys, GET consistently ranked highly for harm, meaning that a higher proportion of patients reported that their symptoms worsened with GET than with other approaches. GET ranked 2nd most harmful of 20 therapies, 1st of 25 and 1st of 15 (Action for ME, 2014: 19; The ME Association, 2010: 10; Action for ME, 2008: 13, respectively).” Chronic Fatigue SyndromeMyalgic EncephalomyelitisMe CfsGraded Exercise TherapyStopget Author:Karen Kirke
“The largest and most recent ME Association survey (ME Association, 2015) of patient evidence on the acceptability, efficacy and safety of CBT, GET and Pacing involved 1428 respondents. In this case, 73 per cent of respondents reported that CBT had no effect on their symptoms and 74 per cent reported that their symptoms were made worse by GET.” ExerciseTreatmentChronic Fatigue SyndromeMyalgic EncephalomyelitisMe CfsNhsGraded Exercise TherapyCbtCfs MeStopget Author:Charles Shepherd
“My very high lactate levels after this trivial walk also show that this trivial walk is very strenuous exercise for me which I have been doing twice a day for a number of years and if exercise would really be the answer to this disease, on the one hand I would not have fallen ill with this disease and on the other I would have long exercised myself back to full fitness as my very high lactate levels show that I do my upmost.” ExerciseCfsChronic Fatigue SyndromeMyalgic EncephalomyelitisMe CfsMe Cfs QuotesGraded Exercise TherapyStopget Author:Mark Vink
“The study by Falk Hvidberg et al. [69] confirms the findings from the health status report by Komaroffet al. from 1996 [70]. It also means that nothing has changed in the health situation of ME/CFS patients in the last 20 years and that means that the current 2 available treatments, CBT and GET, which have been heavily promoted for more than 20 years as the treatments for ME/ CFS, which most ME patients have tried, because they desperately want to get better, are not effective at all, or even harmful, as patients have been saying for a long time [32] which was confirmed and objectified by Black et al. [31].” ExerciseCfsChronic Fatigue SyndromeMyalgic EncephalomyelitisMe CfsMe Cfs QuotesGraded Exercise TherapyStopget Author:Mark Vink