Suspend all trials of graded exercise therapy in children and adults with ME/CFS

Closed 7,620 signatures

What the petition asks

In surveys hundreds of patients have reported harm — some becoming housebound or bedbound, indefinitely — from graded exercise therapy (GET). The Government must demand that research and funding bodies suspend all trials of graded exercise therapy for ME/CFS until the evidence has been reassessed.

Clinical trials such as MAGENTA still use graded exercise therapy, even in children, but are being justified on the basis of the flawed PACE trial. Scientists have severely criticised PACE, the major adult trial that claimed the therapy to be safe and effective. Thousands have demanded retraction of PACE’s “misleading” analyses and 24 ME/CFS charities from 14 countries demanded that its data be released for reanalysis. PACE is no basis for a trial in children or adults. Read more at stopGET.org

Timeline

12 Sep 2016	Petition opened for signatures
12 Mar 2017	Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 7,620

Status Closed

Opened 12 Sep 2016

Closed 12 Mar 2017

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