Wessely and his colleagues, using randomised controlled trials and follow-up studies, developed a rehabilitation strategy for patients that involved cognitive behavioural and graded exercise therapy, that is effective in reducing symptoms of CFS ( a condition that otherwise lacks a cure or unequivocally successful treatment ) in ambulant ( non-severely affected ) patients.
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As with CBT, patient organisations have long criticised the use of exercise therapy, most notably GET, as a treatment for CFS . In 2012 the MEA commenced an extensive opinion survey of patients who had received GET . Based on the finding of this survey, in 2015 the MEA concluded that GET in its current delivered form should not be recommended as a primary intervention for people with CFS.
