Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
After a busy day with a lot of activity or a period of little sleep, it's normal to feel tired. Getting under the sheets on time and getting a good night's sleep can do wonders. When fatigue does not go away with enough rest, this can indicate an underlying disease process. That is why it is advisable to consult the doctor so that the complaints can be properly investigated.
What is it?
Fatigue symptoms can have various causes such as a lack of vitamins, an underlying infection, stress, sleep disorders, anemia, iron deficiency, depression, boredom, etc.
The diagnosis of CFS is given to people who become severely fatigued after mild physical or mental exercise and for which no cause can be found. People with CFS do not recover from fatigue by getting enough rest. In addition to fatigue, physical complaints such as sore throat, muscle pain, headache, joint pain, etc. can also occur. Emotional and cognitive disorders (memory disorders, word finding disorders,...) are also typical of CFS.
It is sometimes difficult to distinguish between fibromyalgia and CFS because many symptoms are similar.
There is no single cause for CFS. Although it is suspected that viral infections (e.g. the Epstein-Barr virus, the causative agent of mononucleosis) may be a cause, most patients diagnosed with CVS have no acute inflammatory symptoms.
After all, it is not uncommon to feel fatigued for a long time after curing a serious infection. The phenomenon of 'post-infection syndrome'.
In CFS, there is a decreased activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA axis). This HPA axis plays a role in stress regulation, among other things. In people with burnout syndrome, this effect may also be impaired, so they often have symptoms similar to those of CFS and fibromyalgia.
Research suggests that CFS is the result of impaired brain connections.
Further functional brain research, including qEEG, will further investigate brain function in people with CFS in the future. This can lead to better and more targeted treatments.
How to treat
First, the cause of the fatigue must be identified and, if necessary, treated. There is no point in using neuromodulation when fatigue is caused by going out often and for a long time. If the cause of the tiredness cannot be found or treated, treatment will focus on the symptom itself: tiredness.
Influencing the functioning of brain regions and their communication with each other can reduce fatigue symptoms. To do this, we use tES, TMS, HD-TEs, SLoreta neurofeedback, etc.
A qEEG can help us determine which neuromodulation technique could have the most effect.
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