CPET – Cardiopulmonary Exercise Test

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2023 APTA CSM CONFERENCE IN SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA

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WORKWELL'S TODD DAVENPORT AND MARK VANNESS PRESENT ON HEART RATE BIOFEEDBACK FOR ME

Webinar hosted by the Norwegian ME Association

TODD DAVENPORT DISCUSSES PEM/PESE BLOG SERIES

David Tuller interviews Todd Davenport about the JOSPT Blog Series on PEM/PESE for Long COVID

FREE CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION FOR COVID-19 AND ME/CFS DISABILITY

Dr. Christopher Snell and Andrew Kantor present
the legal points of view and similarities between COVID-19 and ME/CFS. Click here to view the press release.

WORKWELL'S TODD DAVENPORT CONTRIBUTES TO WORLD PHYSIOTHERAPY BRIEFING PAPER

HELP SUPPORT OUR ANNUAL HOPE FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN!

Participate in our second annual fundraising campaign. By giving to Workwell Foundation, you are helping to provide hope for people with ME/CFS. Funds will be used to increase education and access to care for people with ME/CFS everywhere. For more information about the campaign click the image below.

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WORKWELL'S STACI STEVENS PARTICIPATES IN ENERGY MANAGEMENT WEBINAR

WORKWELL RESUMES SERVICES WITH ENHANCED SAFETY MEASURES

DR. CHRISTOPHER SNELL PARTICIPATES IN ONLINE EDUCATIONAL ROUNDTABLE

WORKWELL SUPPORTS OPPOSITION LETTER "COPING WITH CORONAVIRUS: FATIGUE"

SUPPORT WORKWELL'S CAMPAIGN OF HOPE FUNDRAISER

Join us for our first annual fundraising campaign in the month of December. By giving to Workwell Foundation, you are helping to provide hope for people with ME/CFS. Funds will be used to increase education and access to care for people with ME/CFS everywhere. For more information about the campaign click the image below.

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WORKWELL HOSTS
EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS

Dialogues for ME/CFS is a new project being made with an award from the Wellcome Public Engagement Fund. The project will consist of a website with a collection of about a dozen new short videos, accompanied by links to existing educational and reference material.

WORKWELL PARTNERS WITH MEDBRIDGE TO OFFER ACCREDITED ONLINE COURSES ON ME/CFS

Workwell Foundation and MedBridge have partnered to provide accredited online courses on the topic of ME/CFS for rehabilitation professionals including physical, occupational and speech therapists as well as nurses and other health care providers. The courses are presented by Todd Davenport DPT, Mark VanNess Ph.D and Staci Stevens MA, who are leading experts in the field.

Use promo code WORKWELL when purchasing courses for a discounted annual MedBridge subscription of $200 (regularly $375).

WORKWELL PUBLISHES ON HEART RATE RESPONSE TO EXERCISE

2 DAY CPET METHODOLOGY PAPER PUBLISHED

Workwell Foundation and MedBridge have partnered to provide accredited online courses on the topic of ME/CFS for rehabilitation professionals including physical, occupational and speech therapists as well as nurses and other health care providers. The courses are presented by Todd Davenport DPT, Mark VanNess Ph.D and Staci Stevens MA, who are leading experts in the field.

Use promo code WORKWELL when purchasing courses for a discounted annual MedBridge subscription of $200 (regularly $375).

WORKWELL PULSE NEWSLETTER

LETTER FOR HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS

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COLLABORATION WITH CORNELL’S NIH FUNDED ME/CFS COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH CENTER

A REVIEW OF GETSET BY DR. DAVENPORT

NIH PRESENTATION ON 2 DAY CPET

Staci Stevens and Mark VanNess gave an invited presentation to the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) ME/CFS special interest group on September 21, 2016. The lecture highlighted the importance of using 2-day cardiopulmonary exercise test (CPET) in ME/CFS to objectively characterize the magnitude of post-exertional malaise. The talk emphasized three key points related to the utility of 2 day CPET:
1. The ability to measure fatigue
2. The objective characterization of post-exertional malaise
3. The identification of ME/CFS subsets which point to symptom origins
Many of those in attendance will be involved in the upcoming NIH intramural ME/CFS study. The audience was interested during the presentation and asked excellent questions which resulted in engaging discussion. It was a pleasure to be invited to speak with a group that is preparing such an ambitious series of studies in ME/CFS.

MARK VANNESS, PHD PRESENTS AT THE ME/FM SOCIETY OF BC’S 2016 MAY AWARENESS EVENT

MARK VANNESS, PHD, IS SERVING AS WORKWELL FOUNDATION’S REPRESENTATIVE TO THE CDC TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT WORKGROUP!

The CDC’s ME/CFS program is embarking on a collaborative process to assess and revise existing educational materials and create new materials to incorporate the recommendations of the 2015 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report. This report proposes new diagnostic criteria that are more focused on the central symptoms of ME/CFS and are designed to increase the likelihood of timely recognition and diagnosis by healthcare providers.

STACI STEVENS PRESENTED AT THE ME/FM SOCIETY OF BC’S AWARENESS EVENT ON “POST-EXERTIONAL MALAISE: HOW TO DO MORE WITH LESS”

COLLABORATING WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA

Workwell Foundation is pleased to announce collaboration with David Patrick, MD and his team from the University of British Columbia on the NIH funded study, “Exploring Host Gene Expression during Post-Exertional Symptom Flare in ME/CFS”. This study utilizes Workwell’s innovative serial cardiopulmonary exercise test protocol.

A REALISTIC APPROACH TO EXERCISE AND REHABILITATION IN ME/CFS PRESENTED IN BRISTOL

BIENNIAL INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME/MYALGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS (IACFS/ME) CLINICAL AND RESEARCH CONFERENCE

The conference recorded nearly 400 attendees, the largest gathering in the last 15 years. Workwell’s presentations were well received and rated extremely high among audience members. If you would like an overview of the conference, visit the IACFS/ME website.

MARK VANNESS, PHD WILL BE PRESENTING WORKWELL FOUNDATION’S LATEST RESEARCH IN IRELAND AND THE UNITED KINGDOM!

The first seminar is scheduled to educate the Northern Ireland Assembly on ME/CFS research on February 4, 2014 at Stormont’s Long Gallery. The tour will continue on February 5, 2014 at the Watershed in Bristol, UK. Official invitations will be available soon. If you are interested in attending this free event, please send an email requesting additional information to info@workwellfoundation.org.

WORKWELL ANNOUNCES ACCEPTANCE FOR PUBLICATION IN THE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION.

An unedited version of The Publication Discriminative Validity of Metabolic and Workload Measurements to Identify Individuals With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (https://academic.oup.com/ptj) is available online ahead of print. The following press release announcing this publication was issued on August 8, 2013: Has Workwell Foundation Identified a Diagnostic Biomarker for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome? (http://workwellfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Press-Release-2-day-CPET-Final1.pdf)