Is Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Synonymous with Effort Syndrome? | Zendy

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Is Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Synonymous with Effort Syndrome?

Author(s) -

S D Rosen,

J C King,

J B Wilkinson,

P.G.F. Nixon

Publication year - 1990

Publication title -

journal of the royal society of medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.38

H-Index - 81

eISSN - 1758-1095

pISSN - 0141-0768

DOI - 10.1177/014107689008301204

Subject(s) - chronic fatigue syndrome , hyperventilation syndrome , hyperventilation , medicine , encephalomyelitis , physical therapy , physical medicine and rehabilitation , chronic fatigue , rehabilitation , intensive care medicine , psychiatry , multiple sclerosis

Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), including myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) and postviral syndrome (PVS), is a term used today to describe a condition of incapacity for making and sustaining effort, associated with a wide range of symptoms. None of the reviews of CFS has provided a proper consideration of the effort syndrome caused by chronic habitual hyperventilation. In 100 consecutive patients, whose CFS had been attributed to ME or PVS, the time course of their illness and the respiratory psychophysiological studies were characteristic of chronic habitual hyperventilation in 93. It is suggested that the labels ‘CFS’, ‘ME’ or TVS' should be withheld until chronic habitual hyperventilation - for which conventional rehabilitation is available - has been definitively excluded.

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