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===In ME/CFS === Pacing was developed as an energy management strategy for ME-patients in the [[United Kingdom|UK]] in the 1980s.<ref name=":8">{{Cite journal | last = Goudsmit | first = Ellen M. | last2 = Nijs | first2 = Jo | last3 = Jason | first3 = Leonard A. | last4 = Wallman | first4 = Karen E.| date = 2012 | title = Pacing as a strategy to improve energy management in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome: a consensus document|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22181560|journal=Disability and Rehabilitation|volume=34|issue=13|pages=1140–1147|doi=10.3109/09638288.2011.635746|issn=1464-5165|pmid=22181560|pmc=|quote= | author-link = Ellen Goudsmit | authorlink2 = Jo Nijs|access-date= | authorlink3 = Leonard Jason | authorlink4 = | authorlink5 = |via=}}</ref> Health psychologist [[Ellen Goudsmit]] had suffered from post viral syndrome herself<ref name=":16" /> the decade before and noticed how patients had to learn through trial and error how to pace themselves. Patients were forced to discover through their own frustrating experience how to stay as active as possible within the limits the disease had imposed upon them. This resulted in many unnecessary relapses. In order to prevent these, Goudsmit worked out her own approach into an advice that could be used by others. In the 1990s pacing was promoted in factsheets by various ME-groups in the UK.<ref name=":9">{{Cite news | url=https://www.prohealth.com/library/pacing-for-me-cfs-the-facts-23836| title = Pacing for ME/CFS: The Facts - Prohealth| date = 2007-01-17|work=Prohealth|access-date=2018-08-19|language=en-US}}</ref> Around the same time, [[Leonard Jason]], a professor of psychology at the University of Chicago who also suffered from a post-viral fatigue syndrome,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.northbynorthwestern.com/story/arrested-development/| title = Feeling fatigued: studying CFS at Northwestern|website=northbynorthwestern.com|language=en|access-date=2018-08-19}}</ref> developed the [[Energy Envelope Theory|envelope theory]] along the same principles of energy conservation.<ref>{{Cite journal | last= Jason | first = L. A. | last2 = Melrose | first2 = H. | last3 = Lerman | first3 = A. | last4 = Burroughs | first4 = V. | last5 = Lewis | first5 = K. | last6 = King | first6 = C.P. | last7 = Frankenberry | first7 = E.L. | date=Jan 1999| title = Managing chronic fatigue syndrome: overview and case study|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10205371|journal=AAOHN journal: official journal of the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses|volume=47|issue=1|pages=17–21|issn=0891-0162|pmid=10205371}}</ref> A decade earlier ME-expert Melvin Ramsay had written about the benefits of implementing sufficient rest periods: <blockquote>"One can hold out no specific cure for the illness but advice should immediately be given that they adapt their lives to a quieter tempo and take adequate periods of complete rest after physical exertion." </blockquote>
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