Many of my Fibromyalgia patients have multiple complaints of musculoskeletal pain, especially back and neck pain, that can make even routine daily activities seem daunting. I just read an encouraging article by a group of Swedish researchers who found that high intensity Nordic walking for 20 minutes twice a week “significantly boosted function without any exacerbation [...]
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Total Knee Replacement Patients: Don’t stop doing your exercises!
December 15, 2009 – 10:00 AM
A study followed 48 men and women for 10 months after they had a unilateral knee replacement. The researchers found that overall pain levels were significantly lower, but that the effected leg still demonstrated 14% weakness in muscle strength as compared to the non-surgical leg. What this means is that those individuals still had trouble [...]