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Exercise, Not to Exercise, or How to Exercise in Patients With Chronic Pain? Applying Science to Practice

Overview of attention for article published in Clinical journal of pain, February 2015
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Title
Exercise, Not to Exercise, or How to Exercise in Patients With Chronic Pain? Applying Science to Practice
Published in
Clinical journal of pain, February 2015
DOI 10.1097/ajp.0000000000000099
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Authors

Liesbeth Daenen, Emma Varkey, Michael Kellmann, Jo Nijs

Abstract

Exercise is an effective treatment strategy in various chronic musculoskeletal pain disorders, including chronic neck pain, osteoarthritis, headache, fibromyalgia and chronic low back pain. Although exercise can benefit those with chronic pain, some patients (e.g. those with fibromyalgia or chronic whiplash associated disorders) encounter exercise as a pain-inducing stimulus and report symptom flares due to exercise. This paper focuses on benefits and detrimental effects of exercise in patients with chronic pain. It summarizes positive and negative effects of exercise therapy in migraine and tension-type headache and provides an overview of the scientific evidence of dysfunctional endogenous analgesia during exercise in patients with certain types of chronic pain. Further, the paper explains the relationship between exercise and recovery highlighting the need to address recovery strategies as well as exercise regimes during rehabilitation. The characteristics, demands and strategies of adequate recovery to compensate stress from exercise and return to homeostatic balance will be described. Exercise is shown to be effective in the treatment of chronic tension-type headache and migraine. Aerobic exercise is the best option in migraine prophylaxis, whereas specific neck and shoulder exercises is a better choice in treating chronic tension-type headache. Besides the consensus, that exercise therapy is beneficial in the treatment of chronic pain, the lack of endogenous analgesia in some chronic pain disorders should not be ignored. Furthermore, optimizing the balance between exercise and recovery is of crucial merit in order to avoid stress-related detrimental effects and achieve optimal functioning in patients with chronic pain.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Netherlands 2 <1%
Australia 2 <1%
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Spain 2 <1%
Denmark 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Russia 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 666 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 114 17%
Student > Bachelor 71 10%
Other 68 10%
Researcher 55 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 47 7%
Other 144 21%
Unknown 179 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 189 28%
Nursing and Health Professions 148 22%
Sports and Recreations 47 7%
Neuroscience 29 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 14 2%
Other 54 8%
Unknown 197 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 111. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 September 2022.
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#378,531
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#26
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#4,623
of 361,157 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Clinical journal of pain
#2
of 38 outputs
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