( In this article Amber, a former biologist, explains the ins and out of one the most difficult to understand but important tests done in ME/CFS – maximal cardiopulmonary exercise CPET) testing. In doing so she’s produced a document that both patients...
Your family, friends and even your doctor may, probably will at some point, prod you to get moving. They think that if you can just get on your feet again and start exercising, you’ll be so much better. It’s irritating to hear and just reinforces how...
The Deconditioned ME/CFS Patient? A huge (n=345) 1998 UK study set the stage. The smaller, less muscular hearts and carotid arteries found in ME/CFS made it clear – at least to those researchers – that both physical and cardiovascular deconditioning was...
This is the third in a series of blogs following the work of Workwell and allied exercise physiologists who are aiming to do nothing less than revolutionize the way chronic fatigue syndrome / myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) is viewed. The Disability Defenders:...
It was a typically warm July southern Florida day as we pulled out of our hotel to find one exit blocked by construction. Google Maps sent us in another direction, and when that didn’t work out, we made our own map and, once again, hurried with time running out...
“New data collectively supports the presence of specific critical points in the muscle that are affected by free radicals.” Fulle et. al. A group of pioneering Italian researchers have been studying the muscles of people with ME/CFS – a rather...
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