Incredible Exercise Advantages For People With MS
About twenty years ago, people with multiple sclerosis (MS) were advised to avoid physical activity or exercise because it could increase symptoms or possibly even increase disease activity. Today it is well accepted that physical activity is beneficial in maintaining or increasing one’s health, decreasing secondary complications and improving mental well-being. Some of the newest areas of research aim at the anti-inflammatory and potential neuroprotective factors of exercise.
The importance of exercise was outlined by The Surgeon General’s 1996 Report on Physical Activity and Health. The report made clear that physical activity need not be tough to achieve health benefits. Significant health benefits can be gained with moderate amounts of physical activity. These are important factors for MS patients because of the problems with fatigue. The benefits of physical exercise includes reducing the risk for high blood pressure, coronary heart disease, colon cancer and diabetes. In addition, it helps to improve stamina and muscle strength. These findings stress the importance of physical exercise in improving health and reducing the risk for premature death.
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Research specific to MS is also convincing in showing that MS patients can gain many of the same benefits of exercise as people without a diagnosis of MS. Petajan, et.al in 1996, is an published article that demonstrated the positive effects of a 15 week aerobic exercise program for people with MS. Individuals performed an exercise program 3 times per week. The positive effects included increase in stamina, flexibility, strength and an overall sense of well-being. Improvements in bowel and bladder function were also shown by this study.
Another study published in 2004 by Oken and colleagues, showed improvements in secondary values of fatigue. Improvements were seen with persons performing either a weekly aerobic activity or a weekly yoga class.
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Schulz and colleagues (2004) showed the impact of physical activity on areas such as quality of life, coordination as well as immune-endocrine parameters and neurotrophic factors. Patients in this study performed exercise two times per week for 8 weeks long and demonstrated life quality improvement at measurements with particular significance in social functioning and mood. Additionally, statistical significance was shown in lower extremity coordination for the exercise group. The authors felt that the discrepancy may have been due to deterioration in coordination for the control group and not a reflection of increasing coordination in the training group. Finally, the training group did show improvement in nerve growth factors, but these were not statistically significant when compared to the control group. However, in 2003 this same researchers did prove that nerve growth factors could be induced with moderate exercise. It was a short term study so the long term effects unknown. In 2002 researchers at the University of Buffalo demonstrated anti-inflammatory effects of physical activity as well.
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These preliminary results demonstrate that physical activity may have some neuroprotective or perhaps even restorative benefits.
Physical exercise can be a positive therapeutic ritual. People with chronic disease can organize their day and focus on a healthy activity, with the use of exercise as a therapeutic ritual. A positive effect on the disease process may be a second benefit.
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