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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Facts
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), post-viral fatigue syndrome (PVS) and various other names, is a syndrome (or group of syndromes) of conditions affecting the central nervous system. immune system and many other systems and organs. Chronic Fatigue occurs more often, but not exclusively, in women, for apparently unknown reasons. It is most easily diagnosed when formerly active adults become ill, and is most commonly diagnosed in young to middle aged adults, although it is also reported, albeit less commonly, in adolescents and the elderly. |
Patients with this diagnosis may report a number of symptoms including: muscle weakness, loss of brain function, hypersensitivity, digestive disturbances, depression, immune system weakness and cardiac and respiratory problems.
Diagnosis of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is really an unhelpful diagnostic term as it merely describes the symptoms that sufferers know too well. Enormous resources are being spent on researching Chronic Fatigue Syndrome but unfortunately much of this is directed at the extensive study of the effects - rather than the causes - of the syndrome.
For example large amounts of time and money are spent looking at the minute detail of the muscles and metabolic changes present in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. This will herald no further information on the actual cause or aid in finding a treatment.
There is no simple diagnostic test; Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is usually diagnosed by doctors via a series of tests and quesitons called a 'diagnosis of exclusion'. A diagnosis of exclusion refers to 'a medical condition whose presence cannot be established with complete confidence from examination or testing'.
Most diagnostic criteria insist that the symptoms must be present for at least six months, and all insist on there being no other cause for the fatigue. Diagnoses require a number of features, the most common being severe mental and physical exhaustion or depletion which is "unrelieved by rest" and is often worsened by even trivial exertion.
Chronic Fatigue according to Mickel Therapy
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is reaching epidemic in proportions in the world at large and accoding to Dr David Mickel, he is confident that Mickel Therapy has the means to correct this.
Chronic Fatigue has long been a mystery to the medical community, and people have sometimes been accused of having psychiatric problems rather than genuine physical ones. However, it is clear to Mickel Therapy that people do not make up their symptoms, and that there are indeed reasons for them being there.
Mickel Therapy is confident that the cause lies within the Hypothalamus Gland (dubbed by Dr Mickel as ‘Hypothalamitis’). Mickel Therapy is designed to correct this dysfunction and return the Chronic Fatigue sufferer to full health.
Convincing the medical world of this has never been easy but Dr Mickel hopes that the result of his current Randomised Controlled Clinical Trial will solve this and make the treatment available to all Chronic Fatigue Syndrome sufferers.
Disclaimer
Please note that Mickel Therapy's hypothesis of 'Hypothalamtis' and success stories are based on recovery experienced by clients who have used the Mickel Therapy techniques. Whilst many client have recovered, as shown by client testimonials, the results have yet to be backed up by medical research. A clinical trial is currently underway, the results of which will be disseminated when the study is complete.