Media Article: "Talking therapy treats 'fatigue'"

Does talking about your condition help you?

Talking therapy and exercise therapy has helped some sufferers of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. The work was recently carried out by NICE.

(…) "The work in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine was commissioned by the NHS's drug advisor NICE, which is drawing up guidance for doctors. (…) To assess which treatments work best, Mr Duncan Chambers and colleagues at the University of York looked at 70 individual CFS studies. (…) Cognitive behavioural and exercise therapies appeared to reduce symptoms and improve physical function in adult patients with CFS.

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Meg

Sleepydust Newspaper Coordinator