First "kNOw MORE" CFS Seminar a Success

Working in partnership with the Northern Virginia CFS/FMS Support Group, the Association-sponsored half-day program featured CFS experts Dr. Lucinda Bateman and Staci Stevens, MA.

Dr. Bateman, an internist who has limited her practice to CFS and fibromyalgia patients, shared treatment strategies to help participants maximally manage underlying/overlapping conditions and symptoms. Staci Stevens, an exercise physiologist, discussed energy conservation, balancing rest and activity and how to improve function through a restorative exercise therapy program.

"This event lived up to its name. I left educated and feeling empowered," remarked attendee Laura F. from Silver Spring, MD.

More than 150 people with CFIDS, caregivers, support group leaders and health care providers gathered at the Bechtel Conference Center in Reston, VA for the Association’s first kNOw MORE CFS Education and Empowerment seminar held on June 25, 2005.