Tom KindlonJul 23, 2023

“Issues with Expectation Bias, Absence of Data Relating to Objective Trial Outcome Measures, the Use of Low Quality Trial Design Methods and Choice of Flawed Psychological Model in ReCOVer Trial for Prolonged Fatigue Post Covid-19 Infection “

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Joan Crawford highlights multiple flaws in a Dutch trial of cognitive behavioral therapy for #LongCovid

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Issues with Expectation Bias, Absence of Data Relating to Objective Trial Outcome Measures, the Use of Low Quality Trial Design Methods and Choice of Flawed Psychological Model in ReCOVer Trial for Prolonged Fatigue Post Covid-19 Infection

To the Editor—Kuut et al [1] published their trial of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for severe, prolonged fatigue in patients following severe acute respir

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“Cognitive deficits following SARS-CoV-2 infection were detectable nearly two years post infection, and largest for individuals with longer symptom durations, ongoing symptoms, and/or more severe infection. However, no such deficits were detected in individuals who reported full recovery from COVID-19.”

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Tom KindlonJul 23, 2023

Myopathy as a cause of #LongCovid fatigue: Evidence from quantitative and single fiber EMG and muscle histopathology

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“In addition to our previously published mitochondrial changes, inflammation, and capillary injury, we show now in muscle biopsies damage of terminal nerves and motor endplate with abundant basal lamina material”

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Tom KindlonJul 23, 2023

Exhausting the exhausted - how employers and insurers cruelly add to the burden of #LongCovid.

"Psychologisation, obfuscation and delaying tactics are deliberately being implemented by employers and insurers to exhaust the already exhausted, to force them to give up".

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SUFFERING COMPOUNDED: Exhausting the exhausted – how employers and insurers cruelly add to the burden of Long Covid

While the rest of the world treats the coronavirus pandemic as something that’s largely behind them, patients with Long Covid are facing battles that sap the precious little energy they have left.

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