Fatigue: learning to rest

Fatigue, also called asthenia, can be explained in many ways.

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By: Caroline Paré Follow

2 min

Also called asthenia, fatigue is a frequent reason for consultation.

Physical effort, lack of sleep, overwork, deficiencies, chronic disease, stress, depression… The causes of fatigue are multiple.

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When to consult?

How to fight against fatigue?

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What treatments are there?

  • Dr Adrian Chaboche

    , former head of university clinic, psychotherapist, practitioner attached to

    the Pain Treatment Center at Ambroise Paré Hospital

    , in Boulogne-Billancourt, university lecturer and coordinator of the

    DU in hypnosis and pain at the University of Versailles

    and co-founder of

    the Vitruve center

    in Paris.

    Co-author of

    Fatigue and if we really learned to rest

    at Flammarion-Versilio editions

  • Dr Papy Mafuta Kisadi

    , general practitioner at

    the Kintambo general referral hospital

    , in Kinshasa, DRC.

At the end of the program

, we talk about the creation of

the African Medicines Agency

with

Michel Sidibe

, Special Envoy of

the African Union

for the African Medicines Agency

.

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