Advice for treatment of chronic illness

Chronic illness treatment

Dr. Natelson's advice for treatment of any chronic illness has four components:

• education
• medication
• very gentle physical conditioning
• behavioral therapy, which can help the patient to learn new techniques to handle the illness.

He stressed that this last technique is difficult to do on your own and best learned from a professional.

If patients are interested in joining the studies described above, they will need to be off all medications that may alter brain chemistry or functioning. The study is also recruiting healthy controls and volunteers get a free work-up and are reimbursed for their time. The study is being conducted in New York City but the food study involves travel to Weill-Cornell's Imaging Center.

To participate in this momentous work, go to www.painandfatigue.com or call (212) 844-6747.

[2015 note: Both studies are still soliciting participants as of late 2015.]