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Article: Recognizing and Understanding Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Implications for Rehabilitation Counselors.
- Article from:
- The Journal of Rehabilitation
- Article date:
- April 1, 2001
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Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), also known as post-viral fatigue syndrome (PVFS) and myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) (Lewis, Cooper, & Bennett, 1994), is a clinically defined disorder with an ambiguous etiology characterized by severe debilitating fatigue and a combination of other somatic and neuro-psychiatric systems (Farrar, Locke, & Kantrowitz, 1995). The importance of recognizing CFS and its functional limitations is recognized by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), which added it to the list of priority one new and emerging diseases in 1994 (Reeves, 1995). Although controversy continues concerning its symptomatology, management, and prognosis; some agreement has ...