Regular Exercise IS Anti-Inflammatory
Hello There Rheumatology Fans - FULL ARTICLE
Whoop-de-doo this article title has a lot for me to enjoy in it. I am going to get into as much detail as I can on this and what it means for our practice so strap in.
What To Expect In This Article
- Introduction (free)
- Exercise For Autoimmune Diseases - Particularly “Auto-inflammatory Arthritisâ€
- Variety Is The Spice Of Life
- Allow The Person To Take The Power Back
- Acute Affects
- Further Learning Resources
Introduction
Lets start with an overview of what they did for this article publication before we get into it because it is important we understand that to interpret all this appropriately.
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The “20 year†part relates to the time duration they searched within, specifically January 1, 2003, and August 31, 2023. I already saw someone mistake this that they investigated exercises over a 20 year period. No. Its when the studies they looked at were published!
The authors search came up with a whopping 14565 articles which through a screening process (they read at least the title of every single one - wow) they got this down to 87 that they could include in a systematic review. The total number of patients included in all these studies combined was 2779 which is a good number.
I am no statistician but the systematic review process combines this data as best possible to increase the number of reference points for each outcome. In this case inflammation related biomarkers (CRP, interleukin-6, TNF-a).
SO WHAT
Ok, so the aim of this is to try and answer the question “Is exercise anti-inflammtory in autoimmune diseases� This is important because most effective treatment in these conditions is pharmacological, everything else can help but is of modest effect and is kind of assumed to a degree because it is unethical to withhold the medicine from people. This means we need big numbers to see the small changes that might occur.
Exercise has always been promoted in these diseases and having more data to support it is great, this supports our decision making. It importantly needs to not be pro-inflammatory or we might be counter-acting the other treatments!
??I’m Julia, the Physio in PhysioPilates ??Feel great,move with ease, strength, and purpose ??Pilates, but a little stronger
8 个月“Allow the person to take the power back†I find this approach really helps my clients with auto immune conditions manage their activities and get on with the fun stuff ??