David Tuller
Trial By Error: In a Tub Talk, Therapist Damon Jacobs and I Discuss ME/CFS, Long Covid & AIDS Activism
By David Tuller
By David Tuller, DrPH Earlier today, I posted a conversation about post-exertional malaise featuring Todd Davenport, a professor of physical therapy at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. I'd conducted the interview in April but had forgotten to post it here. And here’s another video I forgot to ...
Trial By Error: Todd Davenport on Post-Exertional Symptom Exacerbation in Long Covid and ME/CFS
By David Tuller
By David Tuller, DrPHTodd Davenport is a professor of physical therapy at University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. He is also part of a research team from Workwell Foundation, an exercise physiology center in Ripon, California, that pioneered the use of 2-day cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) to document the core ...
Trial By Error: A Letter to Journal Brain About Paper Claiming POTS Is a “Functional Psychogenic Disorder”
By David Tuller
By David Tuller, DrPHI recently criticized a study from New York University’s neurology department. The investigators wildly over-interpreted their findings in order to argue that postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, or POTS, is a “functional psychogenic disorder.” This morning, I sent a letter to Brain, the journal that published the paper, ...
Trial By Error: King’s College London Still Promoting Discredited CBT/GET/Deconditioning Paradigm (Update)
By David Tuller
By David Tuller, DrPH UPDATE, August 16, 2022: Last week, Charles Shepherd, medical advisor of the ME Association, received a response to his inquiry about the King's College London website from an administrator at the relevant unit. Here's the note: Dear Charles Please find below response from our Team: Thank you very ...
Trial By Error: Is POTS a “Functional Psychogenic Disorder”? Yes, According to NYU Research Team
By David Tuller
By David Tuller, DrPHResearch into conditions categorized as “medically unexplained symptoms” (MUS) or "functional" disorders seems rife with studies that eagerly interpret associations and correlations as causal relationships. Not surprisingly, these proposed causal relationships tend to flow in the direction required by the investigators’ hypotheses, not in the direction that ...
