Cognitive behavioral therapy as well as graded exercise therapy may be effective treatments for chronic fatigue syndrome, according to a new study. These treatments focus on easing patients’ fear of symptoms and gradually increasing their physical activity.
The findings are contradictory to another group of experts who first pointed out that these therapies can hurt patients. Researchers, Peter White, of The London School of Medicine in the United Kingdom, and colleagues compared the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy, graded exercise therapy, adaptive pacing therapy and specialist medical care.
Authors of this new investigative study also found out that adaptive pacing therapy was not as effective as cognitive behavioral and graded exercise therapies. They further contend that the therapy that requires the patients to limit their activity did not provide an additional safety benefit.
Leonard Jason, a professor of psychology at DePaul University in Chicago conducted studies that found adaptive pacing therapy to be beneficial. He commented that the new research was in some ways, invalidating the experiences of thousands of patients.
Researchers of the new therapies said the developments seen during cognitive behavioral therapy as well as graded exercise therapy have been moderate. The search for new therapies must continue, researchers acknowledged.
Graded exercise therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy are both based on the theory that chronic fatigue syndrome is reversible. Cognitive behavioral therapy postulates that fear of being active and avoiding activity can sustain fatigue. Graded exercise therapy gradually builds up a patients’ level of activity.
The findings are contradictory to another group of experts who first pointed out that these therapies can hurt patients. Researchers, Peter White, of The London School of Medicine in the United Kingdom, and colleagues compared the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy, graded exercise therapy, adaptive pacing therapy and specialist medical care.
Authors of this new investigative study also found out that adaptive pacing therapy was not as effective as cognitive behavioral and graded exercise therapies. They further contend that the therapy that requires the patients to limit their activity did not provide an additional safety benefit.
Leonard Jason, a professor of psychology at DePaul University in Chicago conducted studies that found adaptive pacing therapy to be beneficial. He commented that the new research was in some ways, invalidating the experiences of thousands of patients.
Researchers of the new therapies said the developments seen during cognitive behavioral therapy as well as graded exercise therapy have been moderate. The search for new therapies must continue, researchers acknowledged.
Graded exercise therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy are both based on the theory that chronic fatigue syndrome is reversible. Cognitive behavioral therapy postulates that fear of being active and avoiding activity can sustain fatigue. Graded exercise therapy gradually builds up a patients’ level of activity.
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