Sentences with phrase «guided graded exercise»

Many of these cognitive and behavioural therapies (of which guided graded exercise self - help is an example) can be very helpful to patients and will be used more frequently in routine clinical practice only when we abandon the notion that these therapies need to be administered through face - to - face contact with highly trained therapists.»

The self - help intervention (guided graded exercise self - help, or GES) involves slowly and safely building up physical activity levels (eg.

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Dr Lucy Clark, lead author, Queen Mary University of London, UK, said: «We found that a self - help approach to a graded exercise program, guided by a therapist, was safe and also helped to reduce fatigue for some people with chronic fatigue syndrome, suggesting that GES might be useful as an initial treatment for patients to help manage symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome.

«Guided self - help approach to graded exercise program is safe, may reduce fatigue for patients with chronic fatigue syndrome.»

Writing in a linked Comment, Dr Daniel J Clauw, Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Centre, the University of Michigan, USA, says: «The finding that graded exercise therapy is effective even when exercise is not being witnessed and directly guided by a physiotherapist is a substantial advance, since many patients with chronic fatigue syndrome and other functional impairment have difficulty getting to physiotherapy or do not have access to appropriately trained physiotherapists... In summary, findings from this pragmatic randomised controlled trial add to the evidence that straightforward, non-pharmacological therapies can be helpful in the management of symptoms such as fatigue in individuals with chronic fatigue syndrome.