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'''Pacing''' is an activity management strategy to help [[ME/CFS]] patients limit the number and severity of relapses, and helps avoid deterioration, without avoiding all activity. First described by health psychologist [[Ellen Goudsmit]] in 1989, it gives patients the advice to:Β "do as much as you can within your limits". Pacing recognizes research showing an abnormal metabolic and immunological response to exercise in ME/CFS.Β Pacing has been used as a management strategy in a number of multi-component clinical treatment trials, and in several large patient surveys the majority of patients found be helpful [[Pacing|'''(more...)''']]
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