Lucinda Bateman, MD, Medical Director

Please join us Wednesday, October 2 @ 6pm MDT for our monthly education meeting. Individuals with ME/CFS and FM experience many barriers to access informed and compassionate care. Now is the time to push back on those barriers, especially the ones based on ignorance, bias, and inaccurate information. Dr. Bateman will suggest some tools to…

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Dr. Elizabeth Sherlock shares her wealth of experience as a clinical psychologist in this month’s education series, Living with a Chronic Illness. She will share insights and tactics for coping, life modifications, acceptance, and building a system of support. Dr. Sherlock has been a caregiver and has experienced life with ME/CFS first hand, in close…

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Please join us Wednesday, May 1 @ 6pm MDT for an inside look at the current and future role of the Bateman Horne Center in the battle to disrupt disbelief that ME/CFS patients everywhere experience. Dr. Lucinda Bateman, Dr. Suzanne Vernon, and Executive Director, Rob Ence, MBA, will provide insight into our evolving model as…

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Matt Nelson, PT, DPT, TPS image

Please join BHC and our community for our February Education Meeting, “Pain Wars: Understanding the Neuroscience of Pain” with Dr. Matthew Nelson PT, DPT, TPS. In an easy to understand and fun approach, Dr. Nelson will explain and discuss the neuroscience of pain, and how physical therapy can play a role in treating pain for…

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It’s a hard to be a sick mom. For most mothers, a few days of illness may mean a back-up of laundry and a night or two of frozen pizza or cold cereal for dinner. For those of us moms that are chronically ill, it’s a whole other ball game. Certainly we have to adapt, get creative, and employ as many mom hacks as we can (i.e. Amazon prime, grocery pick up, self-serve kid snacks, and yes, we still have an above average number of cereal dinners). Beyond the physical demands and limitations, however, are the mental and emotional obstacles that we face. The mom guilt is present enough when you are healthy; it can be even more crushing when you are not.

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What I Learned from my NASA 10-Minute Lean Test

Written by a patient who participated in a BHC research study to validate a new protocol used to assess orthostatic intolerance. Here she shares what she unexpectedly learned from her NASA 10-Minute Lean Test at BHC To be perfectly honest, when I decided to participate in the NASA Lean Test Research study at BHC, I…

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10 Minute Lean Test

A Simple Way to Assess Orthostatic Intolerance On June 7, 2017, at the monthly BHC Education Meeting, Pelle Wall, BHC Research Coordinator, reviewed the procedure and shared information about the research underway. Orthostatic intolerance (OI) is an umbrella term used to describe abnormal autonomic nervous system response to orthostatic challenge.  Orthostatic hypotension (OH), neurally mediated hypotension (NMH) [or…

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Research Dream Team

“Advancing Research” is central to Bateman Horne Centers’ mission of empowering patients and improving clinical care for ME/CFS and FM.  The trick of course is figuring out the best way to advance research. This is a decision any organization targeting research into these complex conditions must wrestle with. At the 2016 IACFSME conference it was…

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core symptoms of ME/CFS

Dr. Suzanne D. Vernon, BHC research liaison, explains how the IOM report defining the core symptoms of ME/CFS also define the BHC research roadmap. ________ At the October 2012 CFS Advisory Committee meeting Dr. Sandra Kweder, Deputy Director of the Office of New Drugs at the FDA stated, “When there is confusion, lack of consensus…

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