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ME/CFS AUSTRALIA (SA) INC
Registered Charity 698
Mailing address:
GPO Box 383,
Adelaide,
South Australia 5001
Office:
266 Port Road,
Hindmarsh,
South Australia 5007
Ph: (08) 8346 3237
('834 MECFS')
Office Hours:
Wednesdays, 10am-3pm
Support Line:
(Mondays and Thursdays,
10am-3pm)
Ph: (08) 8346 3237
SA country callers:
Ph: 1300 128 339
(local call)
FIBROMYALGIA HELP: Contact Fibromyalgia SA at the Arthritis Foundation of SA 118 Richmond Road, Marleston 5033 Ph: (08) 8379 5711 |
ME/CFS Australia (SA) Inc supports the needs of sufferers of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and related illnesses. We do this by providing services and information to members.
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ME/CFS Australia (SA) Inc aims to keep members informed of the various research projects, diets, medications, therapies etc. All communication, both verbal and written, is merely to disseminate information and not to make recommendations or directives.
Unless otherwise stated, the views expressed on this Web site are not necessarily the official views of the Society or its Committee and are not simply an endorsement of products or services.
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Next Society meeting
Saturday 23 June 2007
The Society’s next meeting will be held on Saturday 7 July at DIRC, 195 Gilles St, Adelaide. The meeting starts at 12:00pm.
The topic will be “Alternative Therapies and ME/CFS”. Guests speakers will be Kinesiologist Tim White and Bioresonance Therapist Dr Andrew Barrie.
Bioresonance Therapy
Dr Andrew Barrie has a first degree in chemistry, and a doctorate in Atomic Physics. Before training in complementary health he worked at developing instrumental techniques for environmental, nutritional and medical research. Although bioresonance therapy can treat all sorts of diseases, it is best known for success with allergic and chronic diseases. Dr Barrie has recently returned from Germany where he presented a paper on the work he has done with ME/CFS.
Kinesiology
Kinesiology is defined by its practitioners primarily as the use of muscle testing to identify imbalances in the body’s structural, chemical, emotional or other energy, to establish the body’s priority healing needs, and to evaluate energy changes brought about by a broad spectrum of both manual and non-manual therapeutic procedures. A fundamental premise of Kinesiology is that the body has innate healing energy and is at all times doing its best to care for itself, but that sometimes it needs to be helped into a better position to achieve this care.
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What is Kinesiology? (external link) |
Note: We are aware that this workshop, and one or two others that we are running this year, may cause ripples. That is quite deliberate on our part. Even between our Society’s leaders there are debates about what works and what doesn’t, in relation to ME/CFS. We encourage members to do their research about any therapy, whether mainstream medical or not. As we all know, treatments can be very expensive, time-consuming and sometimes counter-productive. So, as a general rule, we would like to promote only treatments that have been tested properly scientifically (ie with a double-blind placebo trial, where neither patients not testers know who is getting the placebo and who the trial treatment). However, there are virtually no treatments which pass that test in relation to ME/CFS, and we know that our members seek out all manner of therapies. So it is in that context that we occasionally present treatments that are not mainstream.
Certainly it is a case of “buyer beware” in relation to most ME/CFS therapies, and that includes a number of mainstream therapies. Regular visitors to our website will be aware, for instance, that we do not support the use of graded exercise programs and cognitive behaviour therapy (GET/CBT) as they are practiced in the UK, even though those therapies are promoted by elements of the UK medical establishment, yet we report them as they are newsworthy.
We would really like members to discuss all their treatments with their GP, but we recognise that this does assume that they have found a supportive GP.
In the meantime, we will present information to members as it is requested by them, and encourage open debate.
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