Chronic pain is often caused by a hyper-vigilant nervous system which exaggerates the pain signal even after damaged tissue has healed. Similar processes are at play in persistent fatigue.
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Articles on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
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Khin Myint’s memoir explores family trauma and chronic illness, through the lens of his sister’s illness, childhood bullying and a brutal breakup that sparked a court case.
A lack of properly funded research into ME or chronic fatigue syndrome has allowed unproven treatment claims to thrive.
Recognition and support from health-care professionals are essential for a fast and full recovery from long COVID.
Diagnosing and treating long COVID is difficult. But given the similarities to chronic fatigue, there are things we can learn from existing research.
Mindfulness, one of the most common forms of meditation, is a skill that must be cultivated and practiced. With some training and discipline, it can help anyone live more fully in the moment.
A good doctor can help you work out when tiredness has crossed over into true fatigue.
Contrary to widely held beliefs, effective therapies exist for post-infection conditions like long COVID. But we’ll need to come to terms with our history to make a difference for sufferers.
Fatigue can drag for weeks, even when the infection is gone, and sleep doesn’t fix it. But there are simple steps you can take to ride it out.
Researchers are piecing together clues to better understand the puzzling array of symptoms in those who never seem to fully recover from COVID-19.
With the impact and cost of long COVID becoming ever more apparent, ongoing pandemic responses will need to be about protecting quality of life as much as saving lives.
While we don’t know exactly what causes it yet, there are a few leading theories put forward by researchers around the world.
For many of us, becoming ill with a virus might put us on the couch for a week or two. But for some people, contracting a viral infection can cause lifelong debilitating symptoms.
Menopausal women who were abused as children experience more hot flushes while sleeping than those who were not abused, according to recent research.
People with fibromyalgia live with chronic pain all over their body. And not all treatments work for everyone.
A better understanding of CFS could lead to new treatments.
A new study offers hope.
Spoiler: there’s a lot more that we don’t know about what causes chronic fatigue.
A recent study found a coaching program is effective in treating the symptoms of chronic fatigue. So was the study robust?
A study that suggested Chronic Fatigue Syndrome was more psychological than physical has been debunked. How did the data get doctored?
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Enterprise Fellow (Senior Research Fellow/Senior Lecturer), University of South Australia
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General Practitioner, PhD Candidate, Bond University
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NIHR Clinical Lecturer, Brighton and Sussex Medical School
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Professor, Infection and Immunity Research Group, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Pharmaceutical Sciences, RMIT University
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Lecturer, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
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Co-Director, Health and Policy, Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow, Deakin University
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Associate Professor, School of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Sciences, University of New England
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Associate Professor at Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University
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Professor emeritus, UCL
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Senior Research Fellow, Monash University
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Chief researcher, School of Medical Science, Griffith University
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Professor of Biological Psychiatry, King's College London
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Professor of Medicine, Brighton and Sussex Medical School
