Posts tagged: Psychology

Video Blog: Chronic fatigue syndrome: questions on treatment at The Optimum Health Clinic

Welcome to this week’s video blog.  This week we have the final instalment of Alex and Sanna’s talk in Stockport earlier this year.  Alex and Sanna are taking questions from the audience about the various treatment options available at the clinic, along with questions about getting tests requested by the nutrition team at the clinic from your GP.  This is a great simple introduction to the clinic’s various treatment approaches, so for anyone currently considering treatment it is a helpful introduction, and for anyone only on treatment on one side of the clinic, a good overview of the bigger picture.

We hope you enjoy, please do feel free to post any questions below, and we look forward to speaking with you next week where we’ll be getting started with releasing our transcripts as well!

Video Blog: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: muscle pain – psychology and physiology

Welcome to this week’s video blog.  This week we have the second of our videos in our groundbreaking new series looking at the different symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome and ME from the perspectives of both the psychology and nutrition team.  For this video Anna (Director of Psychology) and Tanya (Director of Nutrition) are looking at muscle pain, a symptom experienced by many patients, and obviously a lot more prevalent in fibromyalgia (which we have a specific video coming up on).  This video explains the role of hyperventilation in muscle pain, the mechanisms of how stress affects muscle pain, the relationship of magnesium to muscle pain, and a lot more!

In response to feedback that two new videos a week is rather a lot for patients to go through (we do get a bit carried away!), we’ve decided to change the format of newsletters to one video a week, along with one transcript.  The transcripts will be starting from late August, so in the meantime, you’ll be getting an easier load with just one video for a few weeks.  Enjoy!

Video Blog: How is the Optimum Health Clinic Different?

Welcome to this week’s video blog. Our first video this week is with Alex and Sarah Marshall from our psychology team. They talk about why The Optimum Health Clinic approach is different, including the importance of creating your own individual roadmap to recovery, how the practitioner team work together as a team, and why the clinic’s approach is so unique compared to other approaches out there.

For our second video we have the latest instalment from Alex and Sanna’s talk in Stockport. In this video, Sanna explains mitochondrial function and its role in ME and CFS and Alex tells the story behind our free DVD “Freedom From ME: Journey’s to Recovery” (click here to receive a free copy with our “Freedom From ME Information Pack”). Please do post any comments below the videos!

We hope enjoy this week’s videos, and look forward to next week when we really do promise to have the next transript of one of our video blogs available!

Video Blog: CFS and ME Recovery – 3 types of anxiety

Welcome to this week’s video blog. For those of you in the UK we hope you’ve been enjoying the fantastic sun! We are really excited by our first video this week, as we believe it to be a really important insight on the psychology side of the clinic, presented by Alex and Sarah from our psychology team. Anxiety in ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia is something the clinic has talked about in considerable detail in the past, but this video explains the three different kinds of anxiety, which is a new clarification in the clinics model. This model has massive implications for what kind of treatments are going to be effective, and also supporting patients in calming their nervous systems in the most effective ways.

Our second video this week is the latest instalment from Alex and Sanna’s talk in Stockport earlier this year. In this video they talk about the maladaptive stress response in ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia and the role of mitochondrial malfunction.

Please do post you comments on our videos and share your thoughts, and the clinic team will do their best to answer them as well.

Video Blog: Relating to symptoms in ME and CFS

Welcome to this week’s video blog. Our first video this week is a very insightful perspective on relating to symptoms in ME and CFS. With some approaches encouraging ignoring symptoms, and other approaches teaching patients to let their symptoms dictate what they should and shouldn’t do, it can all get very confusing. In this video Alex and Sarah talk about why each of these approaches is at times unhelpful, and how to relate to your symptoms in the best way to support recovery.

Our second video is the latest instalment of Alex and Sanna’s talk in Stockport a few months ago. As always, please do comment on these videos and blog entries, we really do welcome your input.

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