School can be an exceptionally challenging struggle for students with ME/CFS and FM. This May, in our monthly education meeting, guest speaker Doctor Lane Valum shared crucial strategies for how to work with, instead of against, the school system in getting students...
Clinical Care
A Consensus-Driven ME/CFS Clinician Coalition Takes Shape
On March 2-3, 2018, the Bateman Horne Center hosted an exciting summit of leading U.S. ME/CFS clinicians who came together to share their pearls of wisdom on diagnosis and treatment in order to improve ME/CFS clinical care and refine more precise research targets.ย The...
BHC Program and Research Update
BHCโs mission is to empower patients, advance research, and improve clinical care. What is happening to further those goals? At the November education meeting, Dr. Lucinda Bateman and Dr. Suzanne Vernon shared updates on the programs BHC is developing to ensure that this mission is accomplished.ย Highlights include development of a patient education program to empower patients, a practitioner education program that will improve clinical care, and implementation of a major research grant to advance the search for biomarkers.
ME/CFS and Related Illness: Putting It All Together
Understanding how ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia are related to and affected by other illnesses is key in helping patients find relief from symptoms. At the BHC Education Meeting in October, Dr. Nathan Holladay gave a broad view of the key aspects of the various problems that can cause these diseases or make them worse, including infections, immune system issues, and mitochondrial, metabolic, and endocrine dysfunction. Making the connections between these illnesses can help doctors and patients decide on customized treatment methods rather than โone-size-fits-allโ treatments.
Building the Ranks of Skillful and Informed Medical Providers
BHC Strategies for Bringing Doctors up to Speed on ME/CFS and FM ย presented by Lucinda Bateman, MD, BHC Founder and Medical Director Improving the way medical providers understand, diagnose, and treat ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia is critical to progress and ย aย primary...
Welcome to the Microorganism Hotel
Gut Microbes and ME/CFS Theresa Dowell is a family nurse practitioner and physical therapist. She has suffered from CFS for 12 years. It was her experiences as a CFS patient that motivated her to start a medical clinic in Flagstaff, Arizona dedicated solely to...
CFSAC Education Workgroups Seeking Patient Input
BHC has converted their questions into a simple online questionnaire The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Advisory Committee (CFSAC) provides advice and recommendations to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) through the Assistant Secretary for Health on issues...
NASA 10-Minute Lean Test
A Simple Way to Assess Orthostatic Intolerance On June 7, 2017, at the monthly BHC Education Meeting,ย Pelle Wall, BHC Research Coordinator, reviewed the procedure andย shared information about theย research underway. [embedyt]...
4 Tips to Improve Doctor-Patient Communication
Effective doctor-patient communication is critical to building a therapeutic doctor-patient relationship, which is at the heart of delivering high-quality healthcare. When there is open and productive communication, doctors and patients are more effective in...
Guest Post: Student Seeking Feedback from ME/CFS Patients
Brooke Denmark, aย student working on her Masters in Social Work, contacted the Bateman Horne Center asking us to share her thesis research questionnaire in order to garner feedback from those living withย ME/CFS. ย Your participation as a research participants merely...
A Report of Clinical Progress in 2016
Improved objective diagnosis and the ability to assess treatment outcomes, has made many aspects of MECFS and FM appear before my eyes. I am committed to infusing the medical community with this information to dramatically improve patient diagnosis and treatment....
Simple Way to Assess Orthostatic Intolerance
NASA 10 Minute Lean Test* Orthostatic intolerance (OI) is an umbrella term used to describe abnormal autonomic nervous system response to orthostatic challenge.ย Orthostatic hypotension (OH), neurally mediated hypotension (NMH) [or neurogenic hypotension] and postural...