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| Title |
Exercise, Not to Exercise, or How to Exercise in Patients With Chronic Pain? Applying Science to Practice
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| Published in |
Clinical journal of pain, February 2015
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| DOI | 10.1097/ajp.0000000000000099 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| 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. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 146 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 32 | 22% |
| United Kingdom | 25 | 17% |
| Spain | 11 | 8% |
| Canada | 9 | 6% |
| Australia | 7 | 5% |
| Ireland | 6 | 4% |
| Norway | 3 | 2% |
| Netherlands | 3 | 2% |
| France | 2 | 1% |
| Other | 12 | 8% |
| Unknown | 36 | 25% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 113 | 77% |
| Scientists | 15 | 10% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 13 | 9% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 5 | 3% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 688 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
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 | 676 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 114 | 17% |
| Student > Bachelor | 72 | 10% |
| Other | 69 | 10% |
| Researcher | 55 | 8% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 48 | 7% |
| Other | 151 | 22% |
| Unknown | 179 | 26% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 189 | 27% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 148 | 22% |
| Sports and Recreations | 48 | 7% |
| Neuroscience | 29 | 4% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 14 | 2% |
| Other | 62 | 9% |
| Unknown | 198 | 29% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 110. 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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#389,643
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#28
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#4,705
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#2
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