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Parkinson’s patients who participated for two years in resistance exercise, also known as weight training, experienced improvements in tremors and other motor symptoms associated with Parkinson’s disease, according to a study presented at the April 2012 American Academy of Neurology’s annual meeting. Researchers studied 48 Parkinson’s disease patients. The patients participated in one of [...] Physical therapist-led rehabilitation and strengthening exercises are superior to at-home, unsupervised exercise for those recovering from arthroscopic acromioplasty (a type of shoulder surgery), according to a new study published January 2012 Journal of Rehabilitative Medicine. Arthroscopic acromioplasty may be used to surgically remove bone spurs or growths on the outer edge of the shoulder [...] Postmenopausal women with knee osteoarthritis have a 21 percent greater risk for fractures and a 27 percent greater risk for falls than women of similar ages, but without osteoarthritis, Medscape News reported November 7, 2011. In this study, presented in Chicago at the American College of Rheumatology 2011 Annual Meeting, researchers analyzed existing data [...] By adhering to exercises targeted at strengthening specific muscles, many athletes and others plagued by long-standing groin injuries can return to their previous activity levels without any groin pain. The benefits of specific exercise therapy to treat chronic groin pain can last longer than eight years, according to a study published online August 3, 2011 in the American Journal of Sports Medicine. [...] |
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