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A beginners guide to fatigue research

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A beginner's guide to the research about fatigue after brain injury Welcome to the first post of my new blog. My aim in this blog is to write in plain English about the work I did for my PhD. But more importantly, to write about the research that explores brain injury fatigue, making it more accessible to people who aren't researchers. I aim to share what I learnt about brain injury fatigue, how it affects people in their daily life and the evidence around how best to treat fatigue. This whole journey started when another researcher asked me to look into fatigue after stroke. I was working as a lecturer in occupational therapy but had worked with people with stroke and brain injury in my life as a therapist.  I was interested in fatigue because of my personal resulting from an underactive thyroid condition. When I say experienced fatigue, I mean the kind of tiredness where I couldn't take one more step and felt completely overwhelmed by daily life. It is really hard to put ...