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Bragee ME center in Stockholm, Sweden, is a private and specialized clinic endorsed by the Stockholm County region to help patients with ME/CFS (www.bragee.se, in Swedish). The clinic is a national resource and welcomes patients from all over Sweden. Bragee ME center started in 2018 and has today (February 2022) around 1600 patients with ME/CFS registered at the clinic, all diagnosed according to the Canadian consensus criteria (CCC) and treated according to best clinical practice. The center has around 35 employees within various professions, of whom many with scientific experience (PhDs, Associate professors, and Professors).

The clinic, and many of its staff, have the ambition to contribute scientifically to improve the knowledge of the disease. Collaborative studies are ongoing to which the clinic provide material from patients with ME/CFS, following existing ethical regulations including informed consent. Recently, scientists associated with the clinic published a paper on the potential importance of Intracranial Hypertension, Hypermobility, and Craniocervical Obstructions in Patients With Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome doi: 10.3389/fneur.2020.00828. The clinic aims to explore the potential importance of these abnormalities further, but also contribute to other aspects of the disease, such as improving diagnostic precision and treatment efficiency.

In 2018, representatives of the clinic initiated the research network PIAF (Pain Inflammation And Fatigue) with monthly meetings at which multinational speakers are invited to present their latest findings and hypotheses in relation to ME/CFS (NB. restricted access, invitation needed).